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Alberto Magnaghi, Le ragioni di una sfida (PDF)

Il territorio bene comune

a cura di Magnaghi, Alberto

Alberto Magnaghi is Professor of Territorial Planning in the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Florence, where he directs the Ecological Settlement Planning Workshop (LAPEI) of the Town Planning Department. From 2001 to 2011 he was Head of the Degree Course in Planning of the University of Florence (Empoli). Since 2011 he has been president of the Society of Territorialists.

Serie: Territori

Scientific committee: Territori

The central theme of this book is ecological and territorialist conversion as a strategic response to the crisis. 'The return to the territory' can be conceived as a valorisation of the common heritage of assets (environmental, urban fabric, landscape, socio-cultural) that mould the identity and lifestyles of every place on the earth. This calls for several issues to be addressed: the fusing of fragmented knowledge into a science of the territory that addresses the problems of socio-territorial and environmental decay in an integrated manner; the definition of new markers and policies of public welfare and happiness, including the landscape as a measure of the quality of peoples' life-worlds; the boosting of tools of local democracy and supportive federalism; the restoration of centrality to the rural world in the production of healthy food, hydro-geological protection measures, ecological reclamation, urban and landscape quality and integrated economies.