Prati_urbani/URBAN LAWNS

URBAN LAWNS "The free nature should thrive anywhere from falling rain or snow. All that is white in winter should be green in the summer. All that is parallel to the sky belongs to nature, the streets and rooftops should be covered with vegetation, we must be able to breathe the air of the forest in the cities and towns " Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Goethe, Giuseppe Maria Galanti in eighteenth century and Aldo Sestini in the ʻ60s described for the Touring Club the agricultural landscape of “Terra di Lavoro”. That area looked like a great plain densely inhabited in the main urban centers, fertile, well cultivated, full of trees and gardens. This was the “Campania Felix” up to 50 years ago. Since then, the uncontrolled expansion of the city and the landʼs use for transfer of waste in legal and illegal landfills, altered the nature and the environmental balance of that area. The speculative bubble of the last 50/60 years has distributed on the ground a lot of poor quality buildings, more than the need due to the demographic growth of that period. Those low quality urban additions altered the relationship between farm and urban areas and made many residual places that, because of a mistake in their valuation, were considered without any environmental and social value and inserted in legal and illegal wasteʼs cycle.