Slack City - Slack Land.

The essay summarizes the fundamental elements of a research that involved the design and urban planning sectors. The work aims to highlight how the critical issues of widespread anthropization do not only concern urban areas but also areas with a predominantly agricultural destination. These reveal a poor morphological and functional identity also due to the inability to adapt to the increasingly rapid and substantial transformations affecting the different project scales. The research project starts from the definition of slack area given by Jeremy Till - an available space not necessarily built within a homogeneous fabric - and attempted to make a contribution to the contemporary debate on the condition of the average city for a vision of cities Italian and European. The intervention then transferred the concept of slack area and the boundary of a homogeneous environment, from the urban context to the agricultural area. Overall, a polycentric and reticular reality has emerged, not attributable to metropolitan contexts, nor to the complex mosaic of marginal areas, and capable of dealing with the growing social fragility and territorial inequalities that characterize them. The project actions were based on these elements.