Rethinking energies in peri-urban areas: potentiality and action criteria

Energy occurs on the territory in different forms and at different levels of quality. This paper investigates how the consideration and implemen-tation of several manifestations of energies and in particular renewable energy sources (RES) can become a foundational design element for ur-ban and regional planning. Specifically, an exploration of possible criteria for the optimal use of direct and indirect forms of energy to support their widespread on the territory is presented. According to this investi-gation, peri-urban areas of metropolitan cities offer the most interesting location for rethinking energy landscapes, mainly because of the availa-bility of places to be retrofitted and the presence of cut-off areas by in-frastructures. In fact, peri-urban areas always represented service areas for the city center and provide most of the challenges in order to be converted into resilient landscapes. A series of energy-conscious plan-ning criteria for peri-urban areas are introduced.