Abstract
This paper investigates the relationship between different factors that impose on the productive and settlement structures on coastal areas through an analysis carried out on the Italian Adriatic Sea coast. In the panorama of medium- and small-size cities, the relationship between the city, the territory, and the sea very often plays an important role. The main issue of this article is to expose a methodology developed for the definition of landscape quality objectives in the planning of the coast of a region in Southern Italy, Molise. Effort was concentrated on the creation of a territorial survey matrix that could be exploited by local authorities. In drawing up the criteria on which to base the New Regional Landscape Plan, this study provided for the recognition of the identifying matrices for landscape interpretation, creating a database organized in five resource systems. For each resource system, three basic grids were created: each of them collects and processes different information series. These three grids were useful for defining the new protection that is proposed for the sample area. Different conditions emerge in this area, in which two coastal strips have been identified, to the east and to the west of the historical centre.
Highlights
IntroductionThe remarkable interest in urban and territorial planning and regeneration has developed over time: many national and international researchers have defined numerous principles and guidelines on the theme of the coast and of resilient waterfronts in order to adapt them to ecological and sustainable growth and to new transformation models
The waterfront design and the coastal areas planning are topical issues
Its condition is comparable to other port cities along the Adriatic Sea and to numerous European waterfront situations
Summary
The remarkable interest in urban and territorial planning and regeneration has developed over time: many national and international researchers have defined numerous principles and guidelines on the theme of the coast and of resilient waterfronts in order to adapt them to ecological and sustainable growth and to new transformation models. Just think of some Spanish cities, like Barcelona or Valencia; some English cities, like Liverpool or Glasgow; some cities in the Netherlands, like Rotterdam or Amsterdam; some French cities, with the important case of Marseille; or even some German cities, with the well-known case of Hamburg. The policies of urban regeneration, in the final analysis, have taken on different faces over the last thirty years, but they shared the enhancement of the common heritage of the city
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