In <i>Manifesto</i> per il paesaggio rurale

Abstract

he landscape plays an important role in order to promote the multisectorial and multifunctional rural development. In this perspective, a research in the Province of Turin territory has developed. It uses an interpretative matrix composed of four analysis approaches: geographic and social-economic, historical, ecological and territorial. Each approach highlights the strengthens and weaknesses aspects in order to promote policy of rural development founded on the valorisation of the landscape. From the analysis, it achieves guidelines to address the territorial planning, the conservation and the valorisation policies aimed at rural development. Those guidelines propose to share values and resources between city and rural territory, founded on a natural and social cohesion contract between city and agriculture, aimed at regulating the territorial system, acting on the visible landscape, habitable and liveable landscape. The Manifesto summarizes some principles in order to innovate the rural environment and to promote its development.