A temporary atlas: changes of the coastal landscape. Transformation scenarios of an Eastern Mediterranean Territory

Since the last century, the seafront has become more and more a self-representational place for the middle-class society and for its notion of sea as ‘leisure’, by depriving at the meantime the potential interpretations of the relations between the city and its natural context. The coastal cities have been replaced by a permanent settling model not distinct from the living. This study wants to build the different coastal changing landscape through the understanding of some significant moments during the transformation and enlargement of the cities, proposing a critical consideration on the results of modern cities, of architectures and the shapes that built it, apart from the consequences the city itself has on the modern one.