CULTURAL RURAL LANDSCAPES: NEW RESILIENCE SPACES

Abstract

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/geouerj.2014.12729

At the present time, landscape is everywhere. It is always there, as the focus of everyone’s attention and participation, and as the center of a strong disciplinary and political debate, on a theoretical and operational level. In particular, from the well-known landscape revalorization, which has been developing throughout the last decades of XX century, we saw the increasing importance of the polysemous value of landscape as conceptual category, which semantic “ambiguity” is connected to its objective and subjective condition. The new aims of research, as well as the new planning “tendencies”, show an increasing sensitivity about landscape, with the final purpose of defining the intervention programs on territories, through an “holistic” consideration and valorization. With this in mind, this contribution wants to highlight the “cultural” category of rural landscapes, and to discover sustainable measures aimed to reconfiguring the relation between urban and rural spaces. The main intent is proposing a greater attention on the rural landscape, pointing out the policies and planning “options” aimed to stimulate new forms of rural development. From there, we can propose a regeneration of agricultural spaces, encouraging a paradigm of multifunctionality and integration.