Incorporating Nature. Urban sustainability Lessons from Italian Planning

Over the last decades, well ahead of climatic and environmental warnings, Italian urban planning and design practices have been increasingly encompassing within their scope nature – both the wild and the tamed – addressing every single dimension of sustainability and human well-being. On the backdrop of general debates in the European framework, and in tune with valuable scholarly achievements, this contribution focuses on several approaches tackling history and nature to attain continuity of open space. As a result, a wide-ranging statute of landscape, also implying semantic shifts in common language, claims for joint expert and non-expert knowledge involvement in envisioning and shaping communities’ future.