Abstract
Despite the progress made at the institutionallevel, the implementation instruments of land-use planning still remain those of zoning. It is possible to recognise two main zoning categories: areas for settlement/building and infrastructuredevelopment and areas that have to be protected, as compensation for the building in accordance with the principles of equalization (at municipality and regional scale). The areas for the agricultural production (that are not comprised in the equalisation) introduced by the Lombardia Regional Government with the New Planning Law (n. 12, 11th March 2005) are in fact interpreted as protection and constrain tools. The rural areas are planned as constrain to settlement development. Usually, plans do not introduce rural landscape valorisation strategies aimed to the improvement of different function and activities of the landscape, with the exclusion of the building. It is possible to remember only some few experiences of multifunctional management farm placed in natural parks or near the urban areas (in the rural areas near the urban systems, or in the urban-rural landscape). The urban disciplines have a long tradition on the safeguard and constraining tools, regarding both the knowledge and the guidelines aspects. But it is possible to underline a lack (in experiences and disciplinary tools) in the valorisation of single elements of value and in the qualitative differentiation of the valuable landscape components. Regarding the guidelines for the agricultural areas, the main differentiation identified in the plans, usually, consists in the permission (or not permission) to be built on and/or transformed. For the rural areas valorisation and development, the definition of a more large range of normative guidelines levels is necessary: these guidelines have to be structured in order to improve and recognise the local quality and those relationships that characterise the local contexts. With regard to the agriculture, which is considered by a large number of planning approaches the primary matrix of the landscape, the safeguard guidelines, identified by literature and researches, are based on: 1) the recognition and valorisation of the visible/perceptive elements (as permanence of artefacts and items of vegetation…); 2) the implementation of “general” safeguard criteria that are not able to recognise and valorise the physical characteristics of local traditional material culture and the local production/characteristics. The safeguard of the productive value of the rural system could not focalise only on the visual/perceptive landscape elements. To improve and reinforce the rural system the planning guidelines and policies have to take in account and develop: 1) the relationships between the rural and urban systems and the recognition of their opportunities (given each other); 2) the recognition of the continuity of the property system of the soil (that have to be monitored); 3) the promotion of national and regional policesand the implementation of the European polices through the provincial agricultural plans and the integration of these polices in the land-use planning at all the administrative levels; 4) the building of a relationships network in order to facilitate the knowledge/comparison of valorisation projects of agricultural landscape and best practices activated by farm companies.
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