Transitional Landscapes

This collection of essays reflects on the theme of “transition” in all of its nuances (from ecological to sustainable, describing the potential of fragile territories). This is a current issue on the political agenda and in the international scientific community, which interprets transition as a condition that calls for redesigning / rethinking spaces and flows (human and non-human) for a new relational ecology between bodies and inhabited contexts. Researchers, local administrators, architects, landscape architects, photographers are asked to think about landscapes in transition and their repercussions on urban planning and on the local and global territory. The contributions develop innovative reflections, especially in reference to the spaces of the urban fringe, abandoned and polluted areas, landscapes at natural and environmental risk. The transition in these spaces consists in the possibility of enhancing their ecological and environmental potential, favoring a transformation that affects society, settlements, and economies, with improvement in the living environments and the recycling of entire portions of the landscape.