Fabio Lucchesi

Waterway Landscape Protection: transformation opportunities

Pursuant to the Code on Cultural Heritage and Landscape, waterways and 150-metre-wide riparian zones are identified as landscape assets even when they do not possess particularly significant characteristics. In these situations, rather than acting in a solely restrictive manner, based on a form of negative regulation, it seems a good idea to work to implement landscape redevelopment and regeneration processes. The Code offers regions this possibility within the framework of landscape plans which can pinpoint those protected river areas eligible for simplified procedures to foster their recovery. Having approved the landscape plan in 2015, Regione Toscana is engaged in this process and has commissioned the University of Florence to carry out research to identify these areas and the criteria for their redevelopment. This essay presents the outcome of the research, concluded in September 2016 with the creation of an Atlas of these areas which can be taken as a starting point and an initial outline of planning criteria for interaction with local institutions in implementing redevelopment policies.

Aims and Actual Outcomes of Tuscany Castore Project: A Final Balance

Sponsored by the Region of Tuscany (Regione Toscana, RT henceforward), the CASTORE project started in cooperation with Tuscany State Archives on the basis of an agreement signed with the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism (MIBACT) in July 2004, and two main objectives were originally established. On the one hand, local government authorities would be provided with a historical cartographic basis enriching cognitive frameworks of spatial organisation, landscape management, and environment planning; on the other hand, the actual value of the first cartographic representations drawn via scientific methods would be definitely enhanced by way of systematic online publication – thus also improving fruition and preservation of original documents at the official archives and facilitating access by private citizens and students as well as technicians and researchers.

Interoperabilità e accessibilità dei dati topografici. Integrazione, aggiornamento e generalizzazione delle banche dati della Regione Toscana

The Project that involves the Italian Institute “Centro Interuniversitario di Scienze del Territorio” and the Italian Regional Institution “Regione Toscana” is the background of the presented research that was activated to verify the potential use of Desktop GIS computer tools in map generalization. The large scale topographic map data stored in the Regional Database was processed using map generalization models and tools to create a small scale map useful to support landscape analysis and studies.

Integrated Urban Regeneration: the Opportunity of Enhancing the Open Spaces

The paper, draws the attention of the debate a reflection on the possibility of developing, in some urban areas, strategies and actions for the regeneration and redevelopment of the city; bringing to the attention not only the improvement of the spatial and functional dimension of the rundown neighborhoods, but also of the social and environmental dimensions. The valorisation of these areas may benefit from the theory of Ecosystem Services [, which appears to be able to renew the traditional approaches, to land use planning from the perspective of urban metabolism [; in this regard are of great interest those forms of planning of degraded urban fringes that take into account the minimal standard of space and/or rural services by to each inhabitant in order to make an area sustainable. The contribution starts from careful analysis of the rural peri-urban areas of Tuscany, polarized between two apparently conflicting dynamics between them (use of land abandonment and agricultural soils), to develop a reflection about the possibility of experiencing urban regeneration processes that include in inside them, innovative forms for the design of open spaces, with the aim both to recover a portion of depressed urban areas both to create new public spaces, modeled according to the forms of multifunctional agriculture and identitarian landscape [. An urban regeneration directed not only to the built space, but also to the open space and to the promotion of effective projectuality through proper analysis of services, which could be offered by rural areas and serve needs expressed by residents.