Constructing and interpretating the historical landscape: a methodological approach for the Landscape
Planning through the analysis of the Appennine-Irpinia case study
This paper presents an innovative research carried out in the Irpinia region of the Appennines (Italy)
and focuses on the morphological and typological analyses of the landscape. While urban studies have
identified the elements that permit a holistic planning of the human spaces, landscape architects look at
the origins of the evolution of those elements. The study of historical cartography of the area of the Middle
Calore and Ofanto Valleys have resulted in a new reading of the interactions throughout different phases
between the several “centres” and the two coastal areas, thus reconstructing the palimpsest of the landscape
evolution and transformation of this region.