The Measure of Land Consumption Caused by Urban Planning

AbstractThe phenomenon of land consumption is connected with different territorial criticalities, such as the impoverishment of very fine agricultural land, urban dispersion, the spatial and ecological fragmentation, the hydrogeological upheaval and so on [1]. Attention to land consumption is by now consolidated and the search for suitable modalities for its measurement gets more and more stronger. Restraint and examination of land consumption are overriding goals which have to be shared at all levels of urban and territorial planning in the context of policies of subsidiarity and interinstitutional cooperation. The intrinsic relationships between the zoning and physical structure of urban environments suggest that the mechanisms through which planners can evaluate the environmental consequences of existing zoning ordinances and improve the scientific basis of future decision making in order to mitigate the negative effects of urban development should be in place [2]. This essay aims to identify the indicators of measurement of land consumption caused by instruments of urban planning in order to support as well during a strategic environmental evaluation polices of territorial government aiming at models of sustainable urban development