USEAct Key messages and results
Edited on
27 June 2015
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Reducing Land take cannot be reduced to an emotionless science, nor to rigid, unified “policies”! It is a social practice, subjected to real constraints, just as when we prepare food. Each region or city has its “usual” ingredients and recipes, but also each person or family can have specific needs, tastes or constraints (e.g. economic problems) in deciding how to prepare the daily meal. However, as in a healthy
diet, prohibition – “no more land take”, as a principle, is in fact a secondary aspect of the solution, while a “positive, practicable and acceptable” diet, a metaphor for building sustainable developments, is at the core.
The breadth and organization of the theme addressed by the USEAct project (the implementation of policies for reducing new urban land use and the sustainable reuse of the existing city) prompted the proposal of a final report which functions as a gateway and a sketch map of a building, as fascinating as it is broad and complex internally.
Our hope is that through the input keys provided by the “report”, the reader will gain the desire to journey through the rich output of the project. The keywords and in particular “links” to the output are therefore the true pillars of the final report, which has no desire to condense (impossible in any case) into a few pages not only the very broad category of the project material results but also the variety of interpretative perspectives of the topic.
Interpretative models, focuses, aims, keywords, tools, technical-legal frameworks and “geographic scales” have been outlined and discussed by partners and experts. Their diversity between local setting and partner type, have clarified the need to trace an “individual” path towards reducing land use. The wealth, and to some extent apparent incoherence of issues (and concrete practices) should to our minds be judged positively.
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