Keywords

• The recent experience of landscape planning carried out by the Puglia Region has been the occasion to rethink local
• self-sufficient development
• as Alberto Magnaghi
• chief planner in charge of the plan
• has been proposing in these last years in his planning research program. The landscape plan has been conceived mainly as a cultural event
• able to trigger transformations not just in technical and normative terms
• but also and more broadly cultural. Therefore it has been based on issues of good government and governance
• and deliberative democracy. Among the planâ€
• ™
• s actions
• the city-country pact aims at founding new relations in the peri-urban territory based on innovative programs of social housing
• whereas the country is assumed as a non-alienable good
• capable of making sense of an ever-changing territory. The landscape plan addresses an intense activity of negotiation and participation in agricultural policies and territorial strategies
• trying to work sustainability issues out on a practical terrain