Against Landscaping

Abstract

Cultural assets are mostly located within big cities. Landscapes are almost absent from cities. This condition is reverted in inner areas where the primacy of landscapes is overwhelming. Furthermore towns and villages are strictly intertwined with their surrounding landscapes. Yet conservation laws and procedures tend to consider built forms and landscapes as disjointed. The same unsuitable conceptual separation of buildings from the surrounding areas happens by means of the design procedure labelled as “landscaping”. Integration is instead pursued by Landscape Urbanism.