The City and the garbage

Abstract

This paper adopts an evaluation procedure that takes on board six dimensions of the genetic heritage of a city and its waste, how they are intertwined in the landscape. It benefits from the SEA - sustainability environmental assessment approach to integrated social, economic, environmental dimensions of any given project or intention and adds up the morphological dimension that only the municipal scale can allow. Four recurrent functional spatial patterns have been identified and are comparatively graded to characterize how each one of those dimensions relate to each other, what functional spatial links they appear to establish in the urban area. The difference in the DNA of any given urban area is here regarded as the result from establishing the comparative weight of those functional spatial patterns.