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Ecological Resilience and Care of the Common House to Build the Landscape of Contemporaneity and Future Scenarios of Territories and Cities

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The paper has its main base in the ecological vision of territory and city. It is linked to the holistic philosophy of social and spatial transformations. Transformations that involve attention to the short term but which must be connected to the medium and long term. This requires actions to act immediately, included in broad strategies. All this considering the territory and the city as “Common Good”, citing the 2015 Encyclical Laudato Sii for the Care of the Common House [1]. Thus going far beyond the idea of cities as “public space” and emphasizing the care of it, i.e. of its management. In this debate a very important contribution comes from scientific works that also require from a legal point of view the modification of the relationship between man and nature as done by F. Capraand U. Mattei U. Ecology of Law. Science, Politics, Common Goods [2] (Ecologia del diritto. Scienza, politica, beni comuni). The paper continues the research studies about the anthropization way, started in 1987, considering the so call “crisis” as opportunity for a radical change of it. It indicates a path in line with the landscape indications of the homonymous Florence Convention, a document particularly relevant for our country.

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  1. 1.

    Report made by the Meadows & Meadows research group of MIT, commissioned by Aurelio Peccei, President of Club of Rome.

  2. 2.

    At the annual AISRe scientific conferences, since 1987, with S. Macchi we started to face and publish about on the issue Telematics and Territory. The following year there was participation in the MPI 40% INTRA research project Technological Innovation and Territorial Transformations, DipPiST, Faculty of Engineering, Naples. In 1989 this was followed by the programs Technological innovation, territorial transformations and protection of the natural and anthropic environment and Technological innovation, territorial transformations, Dep. TECA, Fac. of Engineering, Rome La Sapienza. Subsequent researches are then exposed in La città virtuale: Trasformazioni urbane e nuove tecnologie della informazione (The Virtual City: Urban Transformations and New Information Technologies, [4]) and Ambiente urbano e innovazione. La città globale tra identità locale e sostenibilità (Urban Environment and Innovation. The Global City between Local Identity and Sustainability, [5]) as well as in the various essays presented, many published, at the annual AISRe Conferences, at the INU and SIU Congresses. To give continuity to these studies, since 2011 there is an “ad hoc” session, during the Annual Scientific Conferences AISRe, entitled Integrated planning and design for ecological territories and cities.” Every year there is a specific declination, that of 2016 was “between transformations and risks”. Topics addressed at international level also in the Metropolis, nature and anthropization: between the earth’s resources and those of culture Session of the 2nd International Symposium NEW METROPOLITAN PERSPECTIVES - Strategic planning, spatial planning, economic programs and decision support tools, through the implementation of Horizon/Europe2020. ISTH2020, Reggio Calabria, May 18–20, 2016.

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    These are the goals of Smart City.

  4. 4.

    This philosophy is the opposite of that which requires Del Nord [6] when it calls for a “cultured technology”.

  5. 5.

    This paper has among the references the anthropocosmos model by Doxiadis [13] based on the relations between οίκος, environment, λόγος, analysis, and behaviour. Studies he did before the cooperation with the fascist, dictatorial, Junta of Colonels in Greece.

  6. 6.

    Author and co-author of many books including The Tao of Physics and Life and Nature, PhD, director and founder of the Center for Ecolfabetization of Berkeley, California, fellow of the Schumacher College in Gb and member of the International Earth Charter Council.

  7. 7.

    Active in the European movement of common goods and author of essays and academic publications. He has the teacher’s desk Alfred and Hanna Fromm of International and Comparative Law, Hastings College of Law at the University of California and is a professor of Civil Law at the University of Turin.

  8. 8.

    See Aragona [18] Servizi Ecosistemivi e Contesto Locale (Ecosystem Services and Local Context).

  9. 9.

    Each year Mercer Consultant, an American consulting firm, publishes the Mercer Quality of Living Survey of 221 cities in the world [23].

  10. 10.

    This is our Wisdom as the name of the first University in Rome born about the XVI century.

  11. 11.

    The workers were about 4000, at that period many more then the entire Sabaudo Kingdom.

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    But all this should not be surprising as The Borbons were at the forefront of productive and cultural innovation at San Leucio very innovative textile production site, for that time a sort of Olivetti at Ivrea, and the magnificent Royal Palace of Caserta that nothing had less of Versailles is a very relevant testimony of all that ([30], cap. 1).

  13. 13.

    The only big neighbouring city is Messina, over the Strait.

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    On a regional scale, the 1999 POR (Regional Operational Plans) [30], with the “Network of Small Municipalities” Action, has already tried to trigger virtuous processes of collaboration/competition between small cities, that is the most of its cities. The result was not satisfactory, as for other instruments, e.g. the Integrated Territorial Projects.

  15. 15.

    These results derive from a study developed by Tinagli [33] between 2004 and 2005 on the (then) 103 Provinces of Italy using the method developed in 2003 by prof. Florida of Carnegie Mellon University of Pittsburgh [34].

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    An example was the creation of the useful “Seismic Risk Laboratory” of prof. Fera with the collaboration of architect De Paoli (Department of Environmental and Territorial Sciences, University of Reggio Calabria), but has been abandoned since years.

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    E.g. Faenza with its urban sustainable regeneration strategy as illustrated in 2016, at the Congress of the Italian Society of Urbanists (SIU), from E. Nanni, head of the city’s Town Planning Department [35].

  18. 18.

    According to the Associate Professor of Ethics of Law, Cananzi [36], individualism would be an “anthropological” peculiarity of many inhabitants of Reggio Calabria, although I think it would be interesting to know how it was before the unification of the nation.

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    Already in 1988, Valeria Erba highlighted the central function of the political choices in addressing the transformations of the territories [37].

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    This to participate to the “city pedagogy” described by Gennari in 1995 [38]. Relevant example is mobility, now in Italy is based on the use of private car while in other places of the world as Copenhagen or Norway for the most is sustainable using bicycle or walking street.

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    Another useful contribution to the formation of the new ecological mentality was the participation in Trondheim (No), in 2016, of the Prorector C. Morabito at the meeting “Human resources and new knowledge to build the future energy system”.

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    It is one of spin-off activities of the University of Reggio Calabria, whose director is prof. F. Arena and founder is Prof. P. Boccotti, with researchers and young scientist, all from this University.

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Aragona, S. (2019). Ecological Resilience and Care of the Common House to Build the Landscape of Contemporaneity and Future Scenarios of Territories and Cities. In: Calabrò, F., Della Spina, L., Bevilacqua, C. (eds) New Metropolitan Perspectives. ISHT 2018. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 101. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92102-0_55

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