La rappresentazione dell'urbanistica come progetto

The representation of urban planning as a tool for the project. The Institute of Territorial Planning (converged afterwards on the Urban Planning Section of d.A.R.D.U.S.) has developed for many years a new technique of representation for the emerging and “hierarchized” urban planning phenomena. These are emphasized with different levels of graphic representation, which underlines, on the one hand, the “weight” of the urban and environmental qualities (to be safeguarded) and, on the other hand, the formal and functional “pathologies” to be reduced or eliminated. In this context, the “hierarchized” representation, first of all, has the goal of emphasizing with different levels of importance the outstanding elements, the valences and pathologies. In other words, such hierachic framework shows not so much the real (anthropic or natural) elements, as the “phenomena” that these elements generate or from which they are influenced. The aim is to focus the attention on the unsolved problems and to anticipate implicitly the project. Even the system of urban projects can be represented with different levels of importance, in connection with their strategic capacity to generate positive effects: to safeguard resources or reduce/eliminate pathologies. Briefly, this new method allows to direct the graphic representation towards the urban project and, in a certain way, to anticipate it implicitly. It is the analytic and designed representation of phenomena, instead of the existing urban elements: impressionism rather than realism as a support to understanding and planning.