Landscape – Great Idea! X-LArch III - Department für Raum ...

43
among the various stakeholders, public and private. The
processes of inter-institutional participation and cooperation
can thus become part of a learning process through
which society can recognize new values (civic, cultural,
environmental, etc.) and can construct new bonds that
give motivation and involvement to people involved in the
actions to be taken for landscape enhancement. People’s
participation can become a component for the legitimization
of values through the comparison and contrasts they
make among the many potential meanings, interests, and
expectations. In fact, participation promotes, supports
and directs a great number of actions that generate a
substantial reinforcement of the results of the strategies
(new bonds and values) and assessment will not be a
means of communicating and legitimizing shared decisions
and values that could reinforce human, social, and
landscape capital.
4. An example of the Proposal Method
The Method will analyze the vision proposed by a new
multidisciplinary project in the fluvial territory of the Sangone
River (Piemonte Region), a complex territory and
diverse environment and landscapes (that is more natural
in the mountain area from Coazze to Giaveno; urban
and rural, mixed in the periurban territory from Trana to
Sangano; urbanized from Rivalta to Turin).
‘Contract of the Sangone River Basin‘, as an implementation
of the Conservation of the Water Resources Plan
of the Piemonte Region. The Contract is a new governance
tool that is founded on a voluntary pact among
private and public actors involved in the management
and use of the water resources aimed at promoting social
participation and the negotiation of the environmental
and landscape valorisation of the river and its territory.
The projectual approach involves the fluvial and perifluvial
territory of the 11 Municipality of Bruino, Giaveno,
Orbassano, Reano, Rivalta, Sangano, Trana, Valgioie,
Nichelino, Moncalieri (in the Turin Province) and others
institutional actors (Autorità di bacino del Fiume Po,
Regione Piemonte, Provincia di Torino, Agenzia Interregionale
per il fiume Po, Ente Parco Po), that are sharing
a common vision of valorisation of the river territory and
are individuating also the economic and social action
for its implementation. The project defines integrated
visions aimed at promoting the sustainability and aimed
at solving the actual criticity of the „Sangone Territory“ as:
the limited environmental quality of the river habitat, the
functional and hydro-geological problems, the degraded
and disused areas along the river, the acknowledgement
and the valorisation of the landscape values. The
Proposal Method has been used for the definition of the
project, that starts from the ‘Contract of the Sangone
River Basin’ strategic agenda, and construct a master
plan, concerning the fluvial basin of the Sangone river
and also specific sites, aimed at modifying the policies of
the institutional actors.
The social legitimized project is oriented to: the
hydraulic and morphologic restoration of the river, the
preservation of its ecological integrity and of its water
resources, the enhancement of the natural and cultural
heritage in the river territory, the improvement of the use
of the river as a location of integrated services, promote
its economic, social, and cultural value and attractiveness,
the landscape design concerning the project
of natural areas, the rural and fluvial territory and the
peri-urban and urban spaces, the management of a new
environmental and territorial system in order to create
the “Sangone Thematic Park” (as an integrated system of
environmental, scientific and touristic network).
In this view, the Method could be useful to supports
the shared strategies (new bonds and values) and
communicate and legitimize shared decisions and values
that could reinforce human, social, and landscape capital
of the Sangone River Belt, taking account of the stake-
Tab. 2. The Application of the Proposal Method
Papers