Anthropogenic Landscapes, Industrial Heritage and Community Making: An Introduction

The recent discourse on Industrial Heritage has been enriched with political and social readings, linked to the growing awareness that natural and anthropic scenarios, urban areas, ex-rural and ex-industrial zones, design altogether a single and non-separable continuum, heterogeneous but absolutely connected whole anthropic space. The reflection on industrial heritage has become more complex, expanding towards the analyses of its direct relationship with today’s multiple crises: overpopulation, climate change, pollution and soil consumption.