Adapting cities to contemporary challenges offers a great opportunity to reconstruct a fragmented, uneven, discontinuous urban mosaic and reconfigure a diffuse, inclusive and sustainable landscape, able to combine cultural and environmental values: a landscape of proximity, able to guarantee a direct and constant relationship with the environment, to generate benefits that are not limited to ecology, but that also touches social, cultural and aesthetic spheres. Garrett Eckbo has described this concept as Landscape for living, emphasizing a necessary role that landscape is required to play. The aim of the GLAS’ research is to outline design strategies that focuse not on ‘greenery’ but on the ‘landscape system’, capable of redefining the relationship between city and nature, reflecting an approach to urban transformation in which the landscape is a ‘connecting structure’.

Adriana Ghersi, Fabio Manfredi, Patrizia Burlando, Francesca Mazzino, Gerardo Brancucci, Stefano Melli, Paola Sabbion, Francesca Coppola

Gerardo Brancucci