ADRIATIC URBAN SPRAWL AND ENVIRONMENTAL

Sprawl is often considered as prefiguring a new urban design, with new compositional structures, a new formal balance, new geographies with its impact on the regional systems of roads, logistics, services and settlements. No one remembers that the extent of urbanization in agricultural or natural areas induces a change in their ecological environment. Nobody seems to remember that new environmental matrices must be built to perform the function of biological connection for many groups of plants and animals. In addition, the slow but inexorable decline of agroforestry-pastoral traditional activities (being no longer economically viable) is not only the undoing of the historical and architectural value of agricultural landscapes, which belong to the collective imagination of local communities, (and which could lead to new endogenous economies), but also results in a reduction in biodiversity and ecotonal articulation due to a loss of alternation of sites with different ecological characteristics. New settlement rules and new rural policies are therefore required to respond to a rural area that is increasingly the scene of complex transformations. It is nevertheless still the embodiment of a constant relationship between the work of man, the balance of nature and the future of humanity. The identities of the spaces of agriculture, are continually remodeled due to action of natural factors and / or humans and their interrelations. We have so many different identities.