Open AccessThe urban bioregion as form and project of the co-evolution between urban and rural domain. the case of the Florence metropolitan area
Author(s) -
David Fanfani
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of engineering and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2227-524X
DOI - 10.14419/ijet.v7i1.4.9264
Subject(s) - bioregion , urbanization , metropolitan area , geography , environmental planning , urban planning , economic geography , psychological resilience , domain (mathematical analysis) , regional science , environmental resource management , economic growth , ecology , civil engineering , archaeology , habitat , environmental science , engineering , economics , mathematical analysis , mathematics , biology , psychology , psychotherapist
Urbanization processes entailed, especially in western countries, growing interaction between urban and rural domain alongside with ‘resilience’ problems also related to global economic, climate and ‘transition’ matters. That calls for a ‘re-embedding’ of cities in their surrounding regions. In such a framework, this article explores the opportunity of recovering, in planning practices, the ‘urban bioregion’ concept, as key feature for balanced and co-evolutionary polycentric urban regions. That allows to point out, as in the case described relatively to Florence MA, the need to adopt integrated and bottom-up approach, in order to overcome routine and path-dependent practices in periurban areas planning.