Locality in assessing the characterisation of a place.

In the last decades the distinctiveness of locality has been a central theme in planning policy guidance towards a better practice. To promote character in place making and architectural design, distinctive local patterns of development should be identified. But the most global issue of the current times at the local scale is climate change. It must be clear that climate change it is essential to address the design process. This responsibility extends especially to both education structures and the local authorities that still lacks of a cohesive approach to the problem of sustainability. Nowadays, it is evident that sustainability represents not only an applied philosophy but it helps as a concept generator within the design process at both local and international scale. Further, even if sustainable architecture is an international issue has to be specific to the constraints of its site; It is time for a new approach to this issue, a new paradigm for urban and architectural design.