INTRO THE NECESSITY TO GUIDE This section will be completely dedicated to the main critique that I have raised to Neutelings in the previous section so that it is still important to maintain an overall image of the patchwork able to protect and enhance its special characteristics. In order to develop a convincing model we need first of all to highlight all the lines, existing in the territory, that in the past were just filled by send and transformed into something new. The type of soil, the height, the territorial pattern are all important traces that has to be respected when we think to the future of the territory. The period in which it was possible to rise a hill of sand and built on it, it is just finished. This is the end of this trend because we realized that there is not any lack of land, it is just a matter to know how to use it. A huge territory is ready to allow us to live, work and have fun, but it is necessary to respect its special character. By looking at the soil maps, for instance, it is clear that exist a huge diversity that was created in the past by the flows of the main rivers and by successive territorial colonization. Also the height map reveals that are still existing, even in the most urbanized area of the world, vast open areas. The emptiness of the landscape is a clear value for a society that is changing rapidly. In the future, in fact, all the Europe will be served by a dense network of streets, highways, railways, and in that moment, the quality of the landscape will represent the main difference between the territories.
69   COLORING THE PATCHWORK ME TROPOL IS