A temporary atlas: identity and coastal landscape comparisons between surveys in an eastern mediterranean peninsular territories

Coastal cities, however, with their historical centres, have witnessed the improvement of an idea and a form of liveability by the sea, founded on the choice of a favourable setting both for living and for sea activities. The city started to build stable installations by affirming a relation of necessity between the land and the sea. This study aims to build the different coastal “places biographies” to carries out the comparison among three territorial and urban situations, along the Apulian coast, a Mediterranean peninsular territory, 800 km, with different morphologies, histories and societies, with a coastal development equal to approx.