Un luogo esiste solo se raccontato. La dimensione letteraria come strumento di indagine dello spazio periurbano

Abstract

The periurban space seems the outcome of an authorless plan, which town planning is called to ponder, taking as its key mission the establishment of an anthropogeography of these spaces. By delving into literary narrations, an open cognitive map can be created of the landscape, wherein the emotional and cultural ferment of the periurban areas is indissociable from the physical evidence of the places and is as crucial in the construction of an identity of those places as in the material and immaterial transformations affecting it. The periurban is a space of huge gravitational pull, as literary novels explain, a landscape to invent, a landscape for reinventing oneself, where the need emerges for awareness of the collective and community dimension of the planning of landscapes, nature and gardens.