Abstract
This article aims to act as a general literature review regarding the landscape, analyzing it through a synthesis of the main concepts and processes that have generated, and subsequently developed, the word “Landscape”. It is a versatile theme, because it has always been studied by various disciplines, through different theories, which sometimes even conflict with each other. Through the present text, we understand the importance and the unique value of the landscape, a value that has nowadays been transfigured by the strong industrialization and strong brand of man in the territory. Thus, the first part of the research is, to some extent, a reflection on current issues that are related to the landscape. It is also a tool for integration, including in the definition of “Landscape”, even those heavily humanized, exploited, degraded, abandoned, and residual; the so-called “Drosscape”, “Friche”, and “Terrain Vague”. The solution is not to negatively interpret these types of scenarios, but rather to enhance them as they are, filled with potential and creativity. This concept is achieved by means of an operation of recycling or reuse of waste, which is capable of germinating new life cycles within the “dead nature” of our increasingly cemented territories.
Highlights
IntroductionOur era is decisively of a popularized and democratized landscape that belongs to everyone, while, in the past, it had the role of a social code and a distinctive sign of an elite that recognized itself in the common sharing of representative places or topical representations
Our era is decisively of a popularized and democratized landscape that belongs to everyone, while, in the past, it had the role of a social code and a distinctive sign of an elite that recognized itself in the common sharing of representative places or topical representations.The landscape has passed from a peripheral vision to a central one, in which it has become important in several disciplines, especially in philosophy and geography [1,2]
These pieces are the result of creative and artistic choices that place the real landscape as the main subject [16,17]
Summary
Our era is decisively of a popularized and democratized landscape that belongs to everyone, while, in the past, it had the role of a social code and a distinctive sign of an elite that recognized itself in the common sharing of representative places or topical representations. The paper describes distinct views of the natural territory, showing, in particular, its strongly humanized and altered side due to the presence of many industries that are located on the land; especially, the scenario of the abandonment is treated, which it is formed by several industrial wastes. The concept of recycling, through the promotion of the landscape architecture methodologies for the rehabilitation of the devastated territories, is addressed, and it tries to highlight their potential of re-use for a different requalification of the lands. When considering that this natural scenario has always been distinguished by beauty, equilibrium, harmony, and functionality, will be possible to confer these characteristics to the degraded, abandoned, and wasted landscape?
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