Archeologies and design of urban landscapes

Investigating urban landscapes, it is possible to identify and to recognize the different archaeological backgrounds underlying the contemporary city’s framework: we can find linearity, as in case of aggregations along road or other infrastructural axes (for instance Appia antica and via Latina in Rome, or Umbrian Via Sacra in Spello), or thickenings caused by morphological peculiarities (like Cupa’s area in Perugia, where medieval fortifications are superimposed on Etruscan walls), or constellations related to the position of settlement centres or of necropolis, or other unitary polarities (acropolis, sacred areas, industrial areas).