Human/Urban-Scapes and the City Prospects. An Axiological Approach

This contribution deals with the issue of the representation in terms of value attributes of the municipalities characterized by complex evolutive processes involving their landscape, urban and architectural characteristics. With reference to the case study of the municipality of Syracuse (Italy), an assessment pattern has been drawn with references to the two dimensions of the urban and human capital, and based on the official dataset by the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), on the Census Sections scale. Many indices have been coordinated within an observation-interpretation pattern involving the three main aspects of the evolutionary approaches concerning the natural eco-systems. A GIS-based representation of the numeric results coming from a Hierarchic Multidimensional approach allowed us to identify some of the main typical urban/human profiles referable to the areas more significantly characterized by landscape-urban and socioeconomic values, as well as the ones affected by decay processes.