The Contribution of Architecture to the Definition of the Idea of Non-urban Space: Italian Countryside, from the Early Rural Reforms to the Present Post-rural Perspectives
Countryside and architecture are rarely presented jointly in discussing advancement and innovation in architectural design and they are usually discussed in different cultural contexts and scholars' specialisations (rationalism, vernacular, neo-realism, picturesque, etc.). Today in Italy and in several other regions globally, the integration of the rural and the urban no longer corresponds to just the close functional connection and spatial complementarity related to production of agricultural goods and city wealth.