Urban Landscape: Interstitial Spaces

Abstract

As any evolution analysis of the urban life clearly shows, the city has undergone numerous transformations, both from a conceptual and an ideological point of view and, concomitantly, in morphologic terms determined by different cultural and social contexts. This fact does not constitute by itself a negative factor: it is simply a distinct reality, determined by the rhythms of technological, economic, social and demographic, change. The extensive growth of the urbanization led to new interrogations on the diversity of the urban interstitial/void spaces, mainly because of their apparent inability to appropriate a recognisable typology or their lack of an attributed name. In the last decades, the open space, usually said "green", has played still, an accessory paper in the construction of the urban space. The indifference before its qualitative definition tends to reduce these spaces just to one more index. Together with high and persistent deficits of environmental infrastructures, new experiences of understanding the urban condition of the interstitial void spaces and of the landscape quality importance, appear. It matters, then, to pass to the appropriate and intentional reconstruction of these spaces as vital condition for its defence, by a positive way, guaranteed by its understanding and usufruct.