Le pacte agriurbain de la vallée ombrienne et les districts agricoles et culturels de Milan. Deux modèles de gestion des espaces agricoles périurbains

In peri-urban areas, the level of integration with the urban areas, the spatial organisation of the city and surroundings and the functions of agricultural system determine specific features of agricultural landscapes . The management of these areas is becoming increasingly important in order to guide the evolution orienteering the development in a perspective of spatial and functional integration. In Europe, some experiences of territorial planning as agricultural parks, agriurbain projects, agricultural districts, agriurbain pacts, pacts between city and countryside, are been developing. The success of these experiences, which often are expression of a new meaning of "rurality" are based on a strong participation and cohesion between the stakeholders thanks to practices of co-construction of space. The purpose of this paper is to present two experiments of co-construction of agriurbain territories : the agricultural and cultural district of Milan (Lombardia) and the agriurbain pact of Umbrian Valley (Umbria), analyzing the construction of the model, the intervention scales, the socio-economic actors involved and considering the role of policies implemented to manage these areas

Geografia e cibo: ricerche, riflessioni e discipline a confronto

Lo stretto legame tra prodotti alimentari e paesaggio, che si è affievolito con la globalizzazione, sta riemergendo nella cultura urbana. Rafforzare la visione del paesaggio alimentare come l’espressione visibile delle permanenze fisiche e del patrimonio immateriale di tecniche e saperi agricoli produttori di cibo è un’opportunità da cogliere per “ri-territorializzare” le popolazioni locali. L’esempio del territorio milanese e in particolare dell’azione dei parchi e dei distretti agricoli porta all’attenzione alcune proposte di paesaggio alimentare come co-costruttore del territorio.The close link between food and landscape, which has faded with globalization, is re-emerging in urban culture. Strengthening the vision of the food landscape as the visible expression of physical permanencies and the intangible heritage of agricultural techniques and knowledge that produce food is an opportunity to “re-territorialize” local populations. The example of the Milanese area and in particular the action of the parks and “agricultural districts” brings to the attention some proposals of food landscape as a territorial co-constructor

MAPPING EVOLVING HISTORICAL LANDSCAPE SYSTEMS

Landscape is not a sum of elements to be juxtaposed in a paper or a digital space. It is a complex system of relationships among components that have evolved over time. It is not a sum of material permanencies, more or less recognizable and placeable in space, but an interweaving of economic, social, religious and political meanings that link permanencies and give them value.How to represent these relationships from existing geographic or historical databases? How can we illustrate the co-evolution between nature and culture that has given form to today’s landscape? And how to allow at the same time to update data and their relationships?Through the comparison among examples taken from local participative experiences (ecomuseum community maps) and others directly managed and produced by the Authors (itinerary maps), the contribution reflects on these main critical issues: landscape representation problems, data collecting and updating, information sharing. The main results show that the data digitalization and georeferencing can help to illustrate and understand tangible and intangible characteristics of landscape and overcome the gaps from a sharing mapping procedure with a bottom-up approach and the point of view by the experts with a top-down approach. On the contrary, the digital representation of landscape data shows another set of problems that currently are mainly solved in traditional ways. The paper will also deal with these aspects.</p

Guidelines for preservation of a landscape system. A handbook for the historic alpine village of Mondonico. The degradation of a dry-stone wall and reparing steps

The contribution defines principles for preserving the landscape system of an alpine village: it gives suggestions for respecting the morphological and material characters, coming from the present and historical landscape reading. It is completed with guidelines for repairing a dry-stone wall, following a conservation approach that avoids demolition and prefers punctual and minimal interventions

Le aree agricole nei parchi periurbani italiani: verso nuovi modelli?/The agricultural areas in the peri-urban Italian parks: toward new models?

The projects of valorisation of the agriculture in the Italian metropolitan areas have had above all origin inside the initiatives of the peri-urbain parks. The debate on the role of the protected peri-urban and metropolitan areas has received vigour on the occasion of the second national Conference on the Protected Areas (Turin, October 2002), in which has been confirmed the idea that the peri-urban agricultural areas can have the task of approach between the rural and the urban culture, through new models of management. The Italian territory presents some experiences of plans already realized or in progress: among these some are meaningful for the expressed idea of peri-urban agriculture, for the actions in progress and for the role dressed again by the actors of these territories, stakeholders, citizens and farmers