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ing virtuous melding among residual areas (or “white areas,” as previously dis-
cussed), the greenery of neighborhoods, peri-urban areas , agrarian land-
scapes in the immediate inland hills and the natural basin of the Apennine
ridges. In this view, it is also hoped that the insular idea of marine resources—
reinforced over time due to the superimposition of the north-south railways,
roads, and motorways, which have constituted a rigid interruption between
coastal areas and the inland hills (Fig. 7.2)—is overcome.
The landscape, from an insular idea of the Adriatic Sea to its insertion in a
reticular vision, presupposes appropriate management of functional, ecologi-
cal, and cultural relationships with the sea. The REM therefore enters within
the tangle of other city networks and the territorial context, infecting them and
characterizing them. For example, important intersections or combinations are
developed with the mobility network . As a first step, the “slow path,” to
which the class of environmental networks belongs completely, favors a
requalification of public spaces capable of introducing new characteristics of
naturalness, new spaces for socializing, and new connections in the city
between zones with different use destinations [3]. In a more traumatic way, if
not appropriately studied and planned, it tries to dialogue with the “fast path,”
often tangent to large conurbations and, therefore, a continuous solution
between country and city. In the expression of this relationship, it should be
Fig. 7.2 San Benedetto del Tronto, Marche, Italy. The infrastructure divides coastal areas from
inland areas