How can landscape design be integrated in urban planning reshaping urbanity and creating a new environmental scenery? The case study of Ravenna - Italy

The objective of the contribution is to understand how Landscape design can be integrated in the urban planning, through a multi-scale approach able to remodel the city and by creating a new urban scenery that comes from the territorial and cultural uniqueness of the intervention’s context, being at the same time able to fulfil the global challenges (for example, how cities adapt to climate changes) that contemporary cities are called upon to give urgent answers to, in terms of urban resilience’s improvement through actions of adaptation ad mitigation. The present debate on the settlement of agreements, guidelines and Best Management Practices to reduce the negative relapses of the anthropic development orients the strategies of redesigning cities starting with the integration of landscape ecological design in the urbanized space’s planning. The goal is to avoid, minimize and manage better the environmental impacts brought by urbanization, following a process of sustainable planning and guarding the ecology and the specificities of the landscape, understood in its environmental and cultural meaning, in response to the goals established by international agreements. In support of the hypotheses, is presented the case study of the Urban Planning in Ravenna (Italy), which for decades has guided the planning policies towards design actions able to create physical and ecological connections between the city and the territory. Specifically, we will talk about: the Green System Plan (1992-on going, winner of the City and Landscape Award 2017) through implementing urban forestation and stormwatermanagment; the integration into the territory of landfills in environmentally sensitive sites and the management of the restro-coastal fringes. The result is the possibility of coexisting, in a systemic and programmatic vision, the anthropic development with the preservation and implementation of environmental ecosystems through landscape ecology design approach and urban forestation, making the city resilient and ecological.