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A semiologist and a designer dialog about metaplanning, creative processes to realize new products and therefore about concept, design models and maps, cleverly using reflections riched in their own fields of research. This interdisciplinary contribution is so important for landscape planners that we asked Giampaolo Proni to present us his recent interview to Raffaella Trocchianesi about the rela- tionship between semiotic and design: Hypertextual Landscapes is the result.

At present one of the most discussed topics is the relationship between infrastructures for mobility ant the crossed territories and landscapes. Starting from the definition of the concepts of crossing and urbanscape, the article proposes a reading of recent European experiences of construction and/or recovery of empty spaces leaved by active or lost railway or street infrastructures within the town, interpreted like expression of a contemporary garden and urbanscape art.

Starting from the dialectic landscape’s definition that Robert Smithson give about the Central Park of New York, the text explores some possible principle about a ethic of urban landscape transformation.The same principle are at the root of one planning/designing model for news dialectics urban landscapes, founded on the concept of species of opens spaces.

Afterwards a seminar promoted by the Master in Landscape Architecture (University of Florence) during the 2006 educational program, we met in Florence the dutch landscape architect Lodewijk Baljon. He accepted, together with his wife Ineke, to spend a little time with us at the Boboli Garden to talk about his work and his project’s philosophy.

Starting from the definition of the concepts of park’s specie, the article proposes a reading of recent European experiences of construction of urban park. The author focalizes attention over the edge-park, conceived as a mediation open space enter the town and its margins (geographic, natural, administrative) and/or enter parts different for role, function and characters.