The Sensitive Relief method for the analysis and representation of the identity of a place following post-seismic reconstruction: the case study of Irpinia (Italy)

The loss of identity affecting places and landscapes represents an important cultural component in environmental risk. Most studies concerning the phenomenon of earthquakes and the episodes of post-seismic reconstruction carried out in Italy tend to focus above all on the technical data of the seism, and fail to take into account the aspects associated with the identity of the places involved. Aim of this work is that of illustrating the analytical method of the Sensitive Relief and a case study with its relative complex map featuring an historical center of Irpinia, a Southern Italy area seriously damaged by the 1980 earthquake, in order to identify the places, their characters and the elements of the urban landscape to safeguarde, which do not show up in traditional map-making but which constitute the urban contemporary identity, investigated in the framework of the Regional Center of Competence "Analysis and Monitoring of the Environmental Risk" AMRA.