Stefano Aragona (p)

Gabriella Pultrone

The outcomes of about 350 years of industrialization are evidencing many unsustainable aspects. The spatial effects and, at the same time, origins of industrial society, consist in the towns and territories where we live. For the most of towns there are problems of pollution, traffic congestion, above all peripheral areas characterized by a very low quality. At the same times a lot of territories are devastated because the use of many natural resources and, destruction of their cultural heritage. In 1972 the book The Limits of Growth described many of these rising questions and it foresaw the coming crisis.
The paper has its main base in the ecological vision of territory and city . It is linked to the holistic philosophy of social and spatial transformations. Transformations that involve attention to the short term but which must be connected to the medium and long term. This requires actions to act immediately, included in broad strategies. All this considering the territory and the city as “Common Good”, citing the 2015 Encyclical Laudato Sii for the Care of the Common House. Thus going far beyond the idea of cities as “public space” and emphasizing the care of it, ie. of its management. In this debate a very important contribution comes from scientific works that also require from a legal point of view the modification of the relationship between man and nature as done by F. Capra and U. Mattei U. (2017) Ecology of law. Science, politics, common goods (Ecologia del diritto. Scienza, politica, beni comuni).
The paper continues the research studies about the anthropization way, started in 1987, considering the so call “crisis” as opportunity for a radical change of it. It indicates a path in line with the landscape indications of the homonymous Florence Convention, a document particularly relevant for our country.

Maria Cerreta (p), Simona Panaro, Federica Russillo

Stefano Aragona

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Daniela Parisi (p)

Maria Cerreta

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Dr. Stefano Aragona (p)

Daniela Parisi

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