This book is almost a manual of "refusal landscapes," within the Italian
context framed through an international approach, inside the
multiplicity of the dross spaces of refusal, to extend and clarify the
concept of abandoned spaces, beyond Alan Berger's approach. Projects and
research are used to engage and interpret the current and future city,
in its geographical structure, infrastructures and forms of settlement,
and towards a new urban metabolism. This book recycles strategies and
multi-scalar design approaches, multiple design actions in different
contextual life cycles--physical, social, economic--processes and
programs, alternative scenarios and unpredictable paths of the
Hyper-Cycle and Drosscapes.