Donatella Cialdea and Alessandra Maccarone on "Territory diachronic maps for the Regional Landscape Plan"

1. Seventh International Conference on
INFORMATICS AND URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING
Planning Support Tools: Policy Analysis, Implementation and Evaluation
Department of Land Engineering
University of Cagliari (Italy)
10-12 May 2012
Territory diachronic maps for the
Regional Landscape Plan
Cialdea Donatella, Maccarone Alessandra
University of Molise, L.a.co.s.t.a. Laboratory,
Faculty of Engineering, Italy

2. The regional contest
In the Molise Region the vast area
planning policy has always been
lacking. The only tool for vast area
planning is the Landscape Plan which
had, and still has, a major role in
regional planning. The drawing up of
the regional landscape plans began in
1987 and concluded with the creation
of eight plans through the regional
laws No 24 of 1989.
The Code of Cultural and
Landscape Heritage (2004)
introduced a new planning tool for the
protection of the landscape in Italy: the
Regional Landscape Plan.
In response to the new concept of
landscape planning the Molise Region
decided in 2010 commissioned the
University of Molise’s L.a.co.s.t.a.
laboratory to draw up the new
Regional Landscape Plan.

3. Metodology
Territorial Analysis
Sample area
Five
Diachronic maps
Resource Systems
GRID
Quality Landscape
Aims

4. Five Resource Systems
Physical-Environmental R. S.
VALUES
Natural Zones,
Protected Areas
DETRACTORS
Seismic, hydrological,
Landslide, restrictions
Landscape-Visual R. S.
VALUE
Landscape areas restrictions
Residual areas
DETRACTORS
Landscape detractors elements
Visibility

5. Five Resource Systems
Historical-Cultural R. S.
VALUES
Archaeological,
Urban and Architectural
Restrictions
DETRACTORS
Accessibility
State of conservation
Agricultural-Productive R. S. Demographic-Tourism R. S.

6. Case study area
The case study area chosen to test the analysis methodology is the one of Low
Molise, including coastal and pre-coastal municipalities. Is one of the most important
landscape area of all the Molise Region.
This is an area that suffered a great number of territorial transformations.

7. Diachronic maps
The Actual State (A) starts with the present state of territorial planning above
municipal level and, therefore with the P.T.P.A.A.V. In particular it was decided to
take into consideration the “map of territorial qualities” which identifies the elements
present within the territory whose importance is such to have warranted their
localisation and selection, characterisation and appraisal by the design groups.

8. Diachronic maps
The Evolutional State (E) is described through a comparison between two
representations of the territory made forty years apart. The aim is to highlight the
main changes in land use within the region. The vegetation map of the Molise
region was created according to two temporal horizons/two different periods: the
post-Second World War period (indicative reference date: 1954) and the
beginning of the 1990s (indicative reference date: 1992).

9. Diachronic maps
The final is the Previsional State (P), created for reading the territorial data in
relation to the previsions indicated by the planning tools presently in force.

10. The GRID model
STATE GRID SYSTEM GRID
(A, E, P) (S1, S2, S3, S4, S5)
SYSTEM GRID FOR
EACH STATE
A_S1 … A_S5
E_S1 … E_S5
P_S1 … P_S5

11. Conclusions
• The methodology is now forecasting to integrate each system evaluation to
result a single assessment system.
• The next step will be to integrate assessments of the 5 systems to have
a map of the quality of the territory.
• The three landscape quality objectives will be identified in this grid using an
algorithm which will result as applicable to all the territory.
• The research is developing innovative spatial analysis methodology.
• This methodology aims to provide an important innovation in this research
field: in the stage just described the methodology want to "read" the territory in
terms of three time horizons. Then combine them in each of the identified
resource systems in order to give equal importance to all spatial data.
• The final result of this process will be a methodology for the reading and
analysis of the territory which can be applied to the entire region in order to
generate a regional landscape plan based on the same method of reading and
interpreting the all territorial data.
• The universality of this methodology will be one of the new plan’s major
strengths.