A strategic plan of investigation into the urban areas carried out together with public bodies

Over the time the increasing number of more and more sophisticated instruments together with the cultural awareness of operators and the scientific progress, have allowed the transmissibility and universal legibility of the results. As far as the systematic outline of the research is concerned, the main aim of which is to study what already exists, it becomes more significant and pregnant in its contents, not only when it manages to arouse the interest of the public, but also when it succeeds in creating a synergistic relationship with public bodies and cultural associations. Local councils have to draw up and update the plans of the knowledge of the whole sector. Therefore public bodies need to get to know their territories and their dynamics and, consequently, the opportunity to make use of all the instruments offered by modern technology which make it possible to satisfy this need. The research activity, focused on the historical centre of Ortygia, has been characterized by concreteness and credibility and has succeeded in creating a synoptic outline. Thanks to its binocular point of view, focused on the single material texture, it has been able to point out the whole distribution of building units, where the already planned implementing projects, especially the detailed plan, need a precise, dynamic basic information project