Ruresidentail Land

Abstract: The sense of place is the attachment to land which creates personal and social identity, beyond the mere property which now refers to inalienability, but actually is also landscape awareness: how people make their own landscape and feel a connection to it. Land areas in collective ownership or use are referred to as commons and have been a means of regulating the use of resources. Several ownership and user models have been employed to maximize benefit from land, from pure private to pure common, with many intermediate forms. Whatever the model, social life involves exchange of symbols that can be detected into landscape. Different experiences, interests or agendas create multiple symbols associated with the same space. Who decides what to plan and build in landscape and how to distribute property, also decides how to interpret a space. Planning and property deals with the right of dwelling, which defines the perceived and apprehended awareness of space. Dwelling is a lived relationship that people keep with space. This relationship wants a space to be accessible in order to get a meaning. City planners emphasized the effects of accessibility as an opportunity for interaction and development. Unfortunately, the more accessible an area, the greater its growth potential, the stronger the landscape exploitation. The rightful demand for housing is overflowing from the urban areas to suburbs so population is sprawled to lands beyond the historical cities, fighting for space (a more and more scarce resource) and pauperizing landscape, social experience and local identity.