“Extra-ordinary” Planning. Methods

The landscape changes with the changing of natural, environmental and settlement phenomena on a global and local scale. Phenomena that cross the contemporary city, with tangible impacts on the conditions of the living spaces of the settled communities. Landscapes change as a result of pro- cesses of technological obsolescence, functional retraction, widespread urbanisation, changes in climate and environmental conditions. Landscapes turn into something else, whose richness, in terms of history and biodiversity values, must be preserved. Whose ability to improve the quality of life must be cared for and designed as producers of life and health. The transition of these landscapes consists in their malleability to be transformed by enhancing their ecological and environmental potential. A transition that affects societies, settlements and economies, in the most vulnerable interfaces between landscape, territory and city: in the mar- ginal spaces of metropolitan areas that consume every natural wilderness.