Cartographic Circuits Inside GIS Environment for the Construction of the Landscape Sensitivity Map in the Case of Cremona

The centrality of the landscape, inside territorial planning, has been influencing, for years, the testing of innovative analytical techniques aimed to gather the peculiarities of urban and suburban context. The experience upon construction of landscape sensitivity maps, written for the Cremona’s Urban Variant, brings out the wide variety of cartographic outputs resulting from the large amount of investigations conducted on the various aspects of the local landscape. The fundamental operations of preliminary information recognition are mainly aimed to obtain the specific territorial units of inquiry, the next step concerns the development of detailed evaluation using multidimensional analysis applications, which allow to lead to the different portions of the Cremona area, specific landscape sensitivity classes, by combining synthetic indicators: i) insularisation of non-built spaces ii) morphological / structural values iii) perceptual aspects of the landscape; iv) permanence of the urban system; v) the degree of imperativeness of the environmental constraints; vi) the integrity of land use.