The Land-In-Pro Assessment Tool (Milestone M4) provides a structured protocol to support the recognition of Historic Industrial Landscapes as heritage assets. It adopts a heterarchical perspective, assuming that landscape character and value emerge from the interaction of multiple components and actors – material traces, spatial relations, practices and memories – rather than from a single dominant element. For this reason, the Land-In-Pro AT combines evidence-based spatial analysis with interpretive and socio-cultural investigations to produce an assessment that is transparent, reproducible, and comparable across sites.
The main characteristics of the Land-In-Pro Assessment Tool are the following:
- It represents one of the main outcomes of the Land-In-Pro project, providing a structured and reproducible six-step protocol for documenting and characterising Historic Industrial Landscapes.
- It enables diachronic reading across reference years to identify dynamics related to industrialisation and deindustrialisation processes.
- It combines quantitative spatial outputs (datasets, maps, classifications) with qualitative materials (e.g., interviews).
It is designed to support planners, technicians and decision-makers in developing informed approaches to conservation, reuse and change management.
The Land-In-Pro Assessment Tool is articulated into 6 steps:
Land-In-Pro Assessment Tool © 2025 by Land-In-Pro Project - Federica Pompejano and Sara Mauri, Department of Architecture and Design (DAD), Università di Genova (UniGe) is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Land-In-Pro | Pilot Site Historic Industrial Landscape Classification
Land-In-Pro | Pilot Site Historic Industrial Landscape Classification is the outcome of applying spatial and landscape analysis to the Ferrania pilot site. It introduces the Land-In-Pro Historic Industrial Landscape Classification (Land-In-Pro HILC), used to identify the Historic Industrial Settlement System’s components, tested on the project's pilot site, Ferrania (Cairo Montenotte, Savona), and designed to be scalable and replicable.
The development of the Land-In-Pro Pilot Site Historical Industrial Landscape Classification followed six main phases:
- Data collection;
- Georeferencing;
- Semi-automatic photo-interpretation using GRASS GIS, followed by manual refinement in QGIS informed by CORINE Land Cover and Land Use classes;
- Landscape visibility analysis to delineate the buffer zone for the Land-In-Pro Classification;
- Definition of Land-In-Pro Classes and Macro-classes for the Historical Industrial Landscape Classification;
- Identification of landscape indicators to support the Land-In-Pro Assessment Tool.
The project has been set up by using the open-source Grass-GISS (v.8.3) and QGIS (v.3.34 Prizren) using Roma40 reference system and Gauss–Boaga cartographic projection (EPSG:3003).
It is organised into four main layers (pilot_site_buffer_zone, land-in-pro_hilc_1944, land-in-pro_hilc_1974, land-in-pro_hilc_2024) with attribute tables containing information on the Land-In-Pro Classes in English and Italian.
The webGIS application is developed from QGIS projects created by Land-In-Pro researchers using the Roma40/Gauss–Boaga reference system (EPSG 3003) and is implemented through Lizmap by G.ter.
This project has received funding from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) - Mission 4 “Education and Research” - Component 2 “From Research to Business” - Investment 1.2 “Funding projects presented by young researchers” and the European Union's Next Generation EU Recovery Plan - Project no. 100027-2022-FP-PNRR-YR_MSCA_0000005"
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