Right to Nature: For a New Urban Landscape

Description: The book explores the right to nature as a new landscape culture through examples, reflections, and projects designed by AG&P greenscape.

In dialogue with other architects and committees - among others, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group, Stefano Boeri Architetti, Credite Agricole, Fondazione Riccardo Catella - the book underlines the importance of a shared quality of the daily urban landscape as a key quality of our contemporary cities.

The Right to Nature is a new chapter of reflection and work of the AG&P greenscape, centered on the current and renewed relationship between man and nature. Through out seven main topics - Sociality/Collectivity, Infrastructure, Inhabit, Work/Welfare, Regeneration, Care, Heritage - the book explores contemporary urban landscape issues at the different scales of the project, in the light of the relationship between human beings and nature.

Brief description: Graduated from Milan Polytechnic University, Paolo Palmulli is the General Manager of AG&P greenscape, landscape architecture firm of which he is partner with Emanuele Bortolotti. He works in the field of landscape design, focusing on public spaces and overseeing both the design process and its implementation, in Italy and abroad. Co-author of the book "Paesaggio diffuso: l'esperienza di un nuovo quartiere a Segrate", published by Electa in 2013. Member of the works supervision group of the new "BAM Biblioteca degli Alberi" the public park at Porta Nuova in Milan; among the most recent projects, he is working on the Levante Waterfront in Genoa with Renzo Piano Building Workshop and OBR, the CityWave for BIG studio in Milan-CityLife, and the regeneration project of Centroparco in Segrate (Milan).

Review Quotes:

"Collaboratively compiled and co-edited by Simona Galateo and Andrea Bortolotti, this large format (7.75 x 1.25 x 10 inches, 2.35 pounds) hardcover edition of "The Right to Nature: For a New Urban Landscape" from Acta is the seminal, groundbreaking, and collaborative work of co-authors Emanuele Bortolotti, Paolo Palmulli, and Alessandro Frigerio. Exceptionally 'reader friendly' in organization and presentation, plus profusely illustrated throughout, "The Right to Nature" will be of special interest to professional and non-specialist general readers with an interest in Landscape Architecture, as well as being a core and highly recommended addition to community and college/university library collections and is an ideal choice for supplemental Urban/Land Use Planning curriculum studies lists." --Midwest Book Review