"Quare" and "bine". Project of landscape requalification of the Municipality of Pescantina

Some of the critical issues facing contemporary cities are linked to urban sprawl, a phenomenon that is constantly increasing. This carries other problems, such as the depopulation of historical centres and the fragmentation of agricultural land, which is now more and more being abandoned. The Veneto region is a prime example of these phenomena, driven by massive property speculation. This has a strong impact on the landscape, which is becoming ever more homogeneous, undermining the recognisability of places: urbanised areas and agricultural areas are becoming a single, seamless mass. The project takes as its case study the Municipality of Pescantina, located in the province of Verona at the base of the Valpolicella hills and shaped by the bends of the Adige river. Pescantina faces the same issues as the rest of the Pianura Padana and Veneto region, which are addressed by strengthening the structure of the territory. In this way, an attempt is made to respond to these issues by making the parts that form the area under consideration recognisable again, in order to compose a unified image of the landscape.