Abstract
Changing and faceted, those in which we live are Trembling Landscapes, often bare of those values that characterized them so distinctly a time. The European Landscape Convention was born with the ethical mission to ensure people a quality landscape that contributes to wellbeing, to satisfy the desires of the development of the communities and reinforce the European identity. This principle today needs new tools to determine its effectiveness in the territory without risk of adding complexity to the dense hierarchy of existing planning instruments. Facing with this dual demand for recovery of sense of place through easy means, the landscape quality objectives can provide an innovative response that is laid out according to three parameters able to describe the current position of a landscape in the perceptual space of the population: Magnitude, Direction and Way.
