Urban landscapes configure themselves like a mosaic of synchronic concurrences and a stratified diachronic palimpsest, at the same time, where the phenomenon of spreading dwellings out of the urban settlements is a raising question in the European context. The irregular growth of living neighbourhoods wears the landscape out, or in other words, we are talking about urban sprawl or spread city: “unplanned, incremental urban development, typified by a low-density use of lands on the city threshold.” (Gibelli e Salzano, 2006). This new kind of horizontal city is diffused, widespread and growing on itself. It modifies the countryside leaving “interstitial segments, remains and fragments” among buildings: maybe they can be seen like “urban gaps”. But where have we find answers to face that problem? among architects and urbanists? among people living in spread cities? How to make people aware of the potentialities of open spaces? How to represent the gaps? Which can be the role of representation and first of all , of communication technologies? The paper intends to show the update examples on the issue:. a patchwork possibility is taking place, sewing up parts and fragments of not homogeneous fabrics, while awaiting a new urbanity re-build, a new landscape. How that patchwork can be made? By open healthy spaces, public spaces, green spaces…, linked each other in order to compose a huge patchwork, more relevant than buildings, the real net able to invert the relationship between built spaces and open spaces.

Filling in gaps in the urban landscape with a patchwork of open space. A proposal for the dispersed city

SALERNO, ROSSELLA
2011-01-01

Abstract

Urban landscapes configure themselves like a mosaic of synchronic concurrences and a stratified diachronic palimpsest, at the same time, where the phenomenon of spreading dwellings out of the urban settlements is a raising question in the European context. The irregular growth of living neighbourhoods wears the landscape out, or in other words, we are talking about urban sprawl or spread city: “unplanned, incremental urban development, typified by a low-density use of lands on the city threshold.” (Gibelli e Salzano, 2006). This new kind of horizontal city is diffused, widespread and growing on itself. It modifies the countryside leaving “interstitial segments, remains and fragments” among buildings: maybe they can be seen like “urban gaps”. But where have we find answers to face that problem? among architects and urbanists? among people living in spread cities? How to make people aware of the potentialities of open spaces? How to represent the gaps? Which can be the role of representation and first of all , of communication technologies? The paper intends to show the update examples on the issue:. a patchwork possibility is taking place, sewing up parts and fragments of not homogeneous fabrics, while awaiting a new urbanity re-build, a new landscape. How that patchwork can be made? By open healthy spaces, public spaces, green spaces…, linked each other in order to compose a huge patchwork, more relevant than buildings, the real net able to invert the relationship between built spaces and open spaces.
2011
Proceedings of EFLA Regional Congress 2011
Sprawl; Urban Landscape; Open Spaces; Landscape Urbanism; Ecological Urbanism
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