Transitional Landscapes: Dematerialization and Expansion of Scopes

The deeply layered landscape apparatus of Campania is described through the dialectics of culture and production as an ideal territorial model determined by the permanence and transition of different component and processes of the human and natural systems. The humanitarian emergency of the unprotected and the incumbent ecological collapse of Nature emerge, as pointed out respectively by Rahul Mehrotra and Richard Weller, as the inseparable sources of the planetary crisis. The text comes to conclusive considerations proposing the relevance of territorial metabolism, its analysis and redesign, implying a dematerialization and expansion of the scopes of the traditional practice of spatial planning, to pave the way for a constructive evolution towards the alleviation of societal disparity and amelioration of the ecological balance.