Restaurare un paesaggio industriale: il caso di Carbonia (Restoration of an industrial landscape: Carbonia)

The “Carbonia: a 20th-century city” project came into being in 2001 during the height of the new climate created by the European Landscape Convention and is a fine example of the ideas and energy behind the ‘landscape territoriality’1 it embraced as it strove to integrate planning and sustainable management in “degraded areas as well as in areas of high quality”, intervening so as to involve “outstanding as well as everyday or degraded landscapes.”2 Carbonia is, in fact, a veritable ‘paradigm of complexity’ precisely because it does not bring into play only or essentially isolated or isolatable urban systems or objects, symbolic places or historical icons.