Environmental Networks for Smart Territories - Urban Landscapes: Environmental Networks and Quality of Life - page 76

Fig. 7.6 Marche Regional
Ecological Network (REM).
Project Area “Syncline Fabriano
- Muccia”. The environmental
network connects the industrial
areas and residential areas of
Fabriano, Matelica,
Castelraimondo, Camerino and
Muccia with the natural core of
the foothill areas of the
Appennines
If one traces the history of the modern European city from the 1500's ren-
ovatio urbis to the construction of the industrial city in the 19th century
and the first half of the 20th century, one gathers how the urban project, in
a strenuous effort to progressively capture the infinite, gradually expanded
from the architectural object and its relationships with other objects
throughout the city and territory [23].
The territorial context is often also a “ creative resource, an openness that
breaks the closure of the already defined frame and obliges us to widen our
view, to integrate in the project something that was originally extraneous ”
[24]. At the same time, opening the context often means making the plan/pro-
ject process more complex, because one enters a space without defined bor-
ders . The context, coming from the outside with respect to the project frame,
is not easy to understand in its deep meanings and needs. In addition, since the
relationships between urban and territorial structures are confronted through
the rules of the type of network, the limits they are investigated within become
elusive. This does not mean a buffer zone ; however, subject to the dominion
of the core central area , it may be; on the contrary, it is uncontrollable in its
terms.