ECLAS Conference 2009 “Landscape and Ruins. Planning and design for the regeneration of derelict places September 22, 2009

Regeneration of rejected landscapes
One of the most significant fields of application of the European Landscape Convention objectives
concerns the rehabilitation of altered and degraded parts of the landscape through innovative
design proposals, able to involve people, in relationships to local contexts with different problems
of fringe, degradation, social rejection.
Catastrophic events and landscape change
Landscape planning and design have the opportunity to dedicate their competencies to public
health, safety, and welfare. In the processes of reconstruction after natural disasters, catastrophic
events conflicts, post-fire recovery, they cooperate with the communities to re-create the identity of
the landscapes.
Plants in ruined landscapes
The plants are dynamic; they adapt themselves to the places, they fill the spaces with a great
variety of native and exotic species. They are at different stages of natural succession and evolve
in continuous search for stability.
Ruined landscapes are places for innovating, experimenting and regenerating the botanical
potentials and the biodiversities.
Archaeological landscapes
The landscape design working with inheritor communities of archaeological landscapes concerns
with the cultural heritage and the strategies for protecting the cultural resources.
Landscape archaeology provides valuable tools - uses of satellite and aerial photos, ground
surface surveys, topographic modeling, stratigraphic excavations, geomorphology assessments,
paleoethnobotany analysis, macrofloral and microfloral studies - to understand the ways that in the
past communities shaped their landscapes, and the ways they were influenced, motivated, or
constrained by their natural surroundings.

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