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( Antonio Tramontin

Professor of Architecture - Università degli Studi di Cagliari

Sardinia Region’s Committee for the Landscape and the quality of the Architecture)

Agricultural lands’ waste and the loss of identity of the Sardinian landscapes

At present, a severe warning for the identity’s loss of the Sardinian landscapes is arising in

the whole Region, comparable to the heavy coastal speculation of the Sixties.

The Regional area, even the inner lands, is affected by a huge urban sprawling, actually out of

planning control, with serious effects of diseconomy dued to the agricultural lands’waste.

Moreover, after a millennium era of agropastoral civilization, the Insular model of settlement

shaped in close textured villages (Las Villas – Sas Biddas)is going to be definitely destroyed.

Cultural and historical heritage’s lasting values may perhaps recall to common lifestyles , in a

rural word of renewed ecologies, construction materials and shared landscapes.

LANDSCAPE PLANNING IN SARDINIA

The new social awareness about the cultural heritage and the ecological behavior, raised

actually to a defence strategy, shared by the majority, towards a really conservative

landscape planning.

Any land reclamation inside the urban sprawl sectors, asks for a different attitude by the

people ,of rethinking their places’ identity, entrusting to contemporary landscapes in between

nature, land and dwelling communities.

NEW LANDSCAPES IN BETWEEN

Moving from the interstitial spaces, we can drive to landscapes in between, lying along the

land in the shape of botanical rhizomes. The rhizomatic planning may move the stratification

of the territorial marks from an invasive action (to build upon the field) to a joined activity

(living in the field).

URBAN SPRAWL PLANNING – GUIDELINES

ANALYSIS OF THE CONTEXT : Interpretation of the urban sprawling trends. Physical and

social evaluation of the regional networks, including historical and existing marks and paths.

EUROPEAN CONVENTION OF THE LANDSCAPE: The landscape as the result of the

human behavior and identity, between town and countryside, to sustain the ecological

biodiversity.

CONNECTION: The area suitability to be connected in the infrastructural network and in the

regional links.regional links.

IDENTITY: Sharing of the behaviours and the social choices ,related to the local and

historical traditions among plants, animals ,people and their environment.

ECOLOGY: The pervading naturality in the land, in order to reduce the fragmentation of

fields and cultivations, supporting the biodiversity.

AGRICULTURE: Soil suitability and sustainable farming, to shape and maintain the

landscape.

SEVEN TRANSITION PLANNING EXERCISES APPLIED TO URBAN SPRAWL

AREAS IN SARDINIA

In terms of introductory and experimental exercises, seven Sardinian exemplary areas have

been taken to consideration: the cities of Sassari, Alghero, Olbia and Quartu S. Elena, the

towns of Bosa, S. Gavino Monreale and Pula. For each of them, a diachronic comparison

has been carried out, on the basis of the photo aerial maps surveyed in the years 1954-

1977-2000-2006-2011. 1977-2000-2006-2011.

In the whole Region, from the coastal settlements to the center, agricultural areas have

been consumed by uncontrolled urban sprawling everywhere, with uniform typologies, as in

Olbia, Arzachena, Sassari, Alghero, Bosa, S.Gavino Monreale, Pula, until Quartu S.Elena in

the gulf of Cagliari.

Planning guidelines have been applied, following the issued statements, in order to simulate

a possible landscape development.

Territorio di Sassari

Sassari centro, Piazza d'Italia

Sassari ovest, periurbano sugli oliveti di Caniga - San Giorgio

Sassari. Ortofotocarte. 1954 - 2011

Sassari ovest 1954


Sassari ovest 1977


Sassari ovest 2000


Sassari ovest 2006


Sassari: Area vasta ad Ovest di Sassari. Abitato periurbano 2011

Territorio di Alghero

Alghero: Centro. I Bastioni della città storicaAlghero: Centro. I Bastioni della città storica

Alghero Est. Abitato periurbano negli oliveti – Carrabuffas

Alghero. Ortofotocarte. 1954 - 2011

Alghero 1954


Alghero 1977


Alghero 2000


Alghero 2006


Alghero: Area vasta ad Est di Alghero. Abitato periurbano 2011

Territorio di Olbia

Olbia. L’area storica col Municipio dal Molo BrinOlbia. L’area storica col Municipio dal Molo Brin

Olbia Ovest. Propaggini di residenze sull’agro in direzione Telti

Olbia. Ortofotocarte. 1954 - 2011

Olbia 1954


Olbia 1977


Olbia 2000


Olbia 2006


Olbia: Area vasta ad Ovest di Olbia. Abitato periurbano 2011

Territorio di San Gavino Monreale

San Gavino Monreale centro. Chiesa di Santa Chiara Vergine


San Gavino Monreale centro. Via Amsicora e Casa Museo Dona Maxima


San Gavino Monreale Ovest. Abitato diffuso sull’agro in direttrice di Villacidro

San Gavino Monreale. Ortofotocarte. 1954 - 2006

San Gavino Monreale 1954







Territorio di Pula

Pula Centro. Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista

Territorio Ovest di Pula. Coltivazioni in serra

Territorio di Pula

Territorio Ovest di Pula. Is Molas Golf Club

Territorio Nord-Ovest di Pula. Vigneti della Medusa Relais. Terrazza su Porto d’Agumu

Territorio di Pula

Territorio Nord-Ovest di Pula. Parco Tecnologico Polaris

Pula. Ortofotocarte. 1954 - 2011

Pula 1954


Pula 1977


Pula 2000


Pula 2006


Pula: Area vasta di Pula. Is Molas e Santa Margherita 2011

Territorio di Quartu Sant’Elena

Quartu Sant’Elena Centro. Casa storica campidanese Sa Dom’e Farra

Territorio di Quartu Sant’Elena

Quartu Sant’Elena Est. Abitato diffuso nell’agro – Is Ammostus

Quartu Sant’Elena. Ortofotocarte. 1954 - 2011

Quartu Sant’Elena Est - 1954








Quartu S. Elena: Area vasta di ad Est di Quartu Sant’Elena. Abitato diffuso sull’agro 2011

Territorio di Bosa

Bosa. Il lungofiume con il rione medioevale di Sa Costa e il Castello di Serravalle

Territorio di Bosa

Bosa. Est. Fondi e case agricole lungo l’ansa del fiume Temo dalla Chiesa Romanica di San Pietro

Bosa. Ortofotocarte. 1954 - 2011

Bosa. 1954


Bosa. 1977


Bosa. 2000


Bosa. 2006


Bosa. 2011


Bosa: Area vasta di Bosa e valle del Temo 2011

New ecologies for the Sardinian rural landscape3

The significance of Sardinian rural space is changing. Nowadays we can point out

a likely different set of landscapes related to a new ecological everyday life, to a

renewed care regarding building materials and agricultural tools.

The countryside is tending to take on the primary role of a resource of agricultural

landscapes that are again to be contemplated and enjoyed.

Peaceful scenery of open fields along the land, freedom of moving, biodiversity of

plants and animals, pure water and an average good conservation of rural plants and animals, pure water and an average good conservation of rural

architecture.

A new market for material and immaterial goods related to nature and the

landscape, seems to become accessible for the symbolic sharing of agricultural

activities, that demand the real presence of farming along the new communities’

everyday life.

3) From a conversation with A. Aru, Cagliari, 10-2011

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