Landscape infrastructure for the XXIst century: new identities for new landscapes

The subject of the study is the emerging practice of landscape design, which aims to provide operational solutions using an interdisciplinary approach and a systemic vision of the functioning of the urban environment, going by the name of Landscape Infrastructure. The research stems from the need to understand what this new design typology consists of and what the role of Landscape Infrastructure projects, in the processes of transformation and creation of cities, is today. Research shows that infrastructure, historically the main engine of growth and improvement in urban development, has become, in the contemporary, global city, a means through which a new connotation to the foundations of the city can be given. In both types of design identified (Infrastructure as Landscape, Landscape as Infrastructure) the Landscape Infrastructure project is a powerful tool for generating new public spaces and increasing urban resilience. By pushing back the limits and giving more scope for the potential of Landscape Infrastructure projects, they should take on an even more structural role in the development of new urban landscapes, thereby enriching the sphere of urban planning with tools, techniques and practices relevant to the construction and transformation of open spaces and providing a suitable response to the social and environmental changes of our time.