Tools and approaches for metropolitan coastal landscapes

In territories strongly characterized by the coastal dimension – both for physicalenvironmental reasons and for settlement’s history, as well as for traditional and emerging economies –, many spatial conditions, interests and actors, participate in the transformation of the coastal territory, each with its own rationality. When this condition is expressed in a metropolitan dimension, both the greater intensity of environmental and settlement phenomena and the concentration of interests and actors make the coastal territory particularly complex and subject to pressure. The contribution aims to investigate if a common vision or rationality – a common project – can be found in this multitude and what its benchmarks can be. The object of the discussion is the coast of the metropolitan city of Bari, where there are both regulatory and strategic tools at various levels, sector plans, individual transformation interventions, actions outlined by the metropolitan strategic plan in progress. In the metropolitan city this patchwork needs to be investigated, in an inter-scalar and nonhierarchical perspective, in its relationship with the strategies of the landscape plan, with the aim of bringing out - where possible - an overall picture of the metropolitan coast as a dynamic result of the multiplicity of approaches.