Un progetto di diffusione della naturalità.

The Salento peninsula is one of many Southern finibusterrae the world. A narrow strip of land that at some point ends, or where extraordinary landscapes along a desolate alternate sequence or coexist in the same mind. As often happens in the southern territories. Pictures that speak of inertia and resistance to change and, together, the search for a model of development is still uncertain which transforms the first image and trivializes. Covered with olive groves as far as the eye which gazes from the sea, the Salento has offered an 'exciting opportunity to experience a wide area plan as at the beginning of the nineties others were preparing in Italy. Along different routes, for the first time, the openings occurring short-term planning at the provincial level, delineating areas of intermediate forms between the local and regional level of the dilated. The territory into focus the environmental issue as a problem and resource thanks to the right distance of observation of phenomena, such as to make, in many cases, the dominant reason of the plan. No longer engaged in the preparation of agendas, budgets or depleting resources relegated to specific sectoral expertise, the new environmental ethic demanded now to participate in the project area, an option to share with other environmental activities sponsored by the plan. The spatial plan of the provincial coordination of Lecce is exemplary of this climate and it shows the summary of its proposal contained in the slogan Salento as a park. In it implies an idea of ​​a territory and not the expansion of a protected area. A habitat and complex within which we experience the living conditions of a land with special status as a park can be. The condition in which the word is used not only to a place of respect for nature but is an overall idea of ​​territory and practices which they invest. One way to develop ideas of nature that does not preclude the city, human activities do not inhibit but rather promote them and involve them in a common project, to write a story together. The plan immediately declared her brought: is a research and a project. The step of preparing the plan, in fact, intercepted a particular line of research on the contemporary city in the late nineties he was building from the perspective of a rethinking of the modern. At the same time but on the other hand, new concepts of a 'spatial ecology in favor of promoting a less exclusive nature and wilderness areas were involved in ordinary housing. Even before the North American landscape urbanism, starting from conditions not dissimilar, put in place a strategy theory and practice from the landscape and ecology.