The Right to Nature (ENG ED.)

For a new urban landscape
Emanuele Bortolotti, Paolo Palmulli with Alessandro Frigerio

The Right to Nature is a new chapter of reflection and work of the AG&P greenscape, centered on the current and renewed relationship between man and nature, and the consequent transformation of our cities through new ways of living, inhabiting, working with nature and the landscape as the protagonist, in every area, at all project scales, as a social balancer and activator of a new urban sociality. The relationship between man and nature today is an urgent issue in the debate on the contemporary city, but it still has to be truly explored, defined, and built. Through out seven main topics – Sociality/Collectivity, Infrastructure, Inhabit, Work/Welfare, Regeneration, Care, Heritage –, the book explores contemporary urban landscape issues at the different scales of the project, in the light of the relationship between human beings and nature. 

The concept is explored through examples, reflections, and projects designed by AG&P greenscape. In dialogue with other architects and committees – among others, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group, Stefano Boeri Architetti, Credite Agricole, Fondazione Riccardo Catella –, the book underlines the importance of a shared quality of the daily urban landscape as a key quality of our contemporary cities.

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AG&P greenscape has always adopted a point of view that aims to break down the barriers between landscape, architecture, technology, culture and ecology, in the belief that quality of the built and natural environment can only be attained through a rigorous and thorough process of research, design and realization, in the light of a multidisciplinary and multiscalar approach. 

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