The Landscape of the Reconstructed City

Abstract

The reconstruction in the Belice and the reconstruction that followed it in the following years make the definite cancellation of agrarian landscapes, and to some degree, of country civilization itself there. The event occured in an moment of great uncertainty, in which there were studies on the development of the territory, among which those of Dolci and Doglio at a time when a new, mainly urban culture was coming on the scene. From this debate there will at first arise very different points of view and it will be the mayors of various towns to assess what powers there were for the solution of the principal problems of this emergency. The desire arose to compare themselves with the models of European culture and it seems that a common understanding of goals and solutions has come about. A first approach does not consider the countryside and tends to replace it with forms which are openly urban. A second approach related to the first proposes models which have been experimented with in other countries. The calamitous event (earhquake) hurried up the evolution of this part of the territory toward changes which were not always desired or necessary.