“Peri-urban is the area of urban region, where built and unbuilt patterns intermix (Forman 2008: 7). Periurban area have not the features of urban compact city nor the suburban village ones; their features, often unprecedented, are in turn defined as: urban sprawl, dispersed urban development, widespread city (città diffusa), territories inbetween, etc. These are “areas where new functions, uses and lifestyles arise as a result of the ongoing interaction of urban and rural elements. They cannot solely be explained as an intensification of urban functions in the rural environment, but have specific spatial and programmatic features that set them apart” (Wandl et al. 2014). Moreover, because of (former-round, widespread, increasingly polynucleated) structure of contemporary urban regions, peri-urban area is not matching with the intermediate area around the city. Then, peri-urban is a specific condition of contemporary settlements in the urban regions; it has a widespread and scattered nature and can be recognized both by landscape readings both by quantitative analysis. The landscape-reading shows territories characterized by high fragmentation, lack of urban and ecologic continuity, hybrid (not-rural, nor-urban) condition, dispersion of sense of places caused by continuous overlapping of sectorial elements and flows. That is a not–isotropic spatial structure; it is determined by iterations, rips, spatial accumulations of scattered uses and buildings. From a quantitative point of view, peri-urban settlements can be recognized by way of several indicators: someone depending on physical features (number of buildings and surface they cover, built-up volume, parcel fragmentation, etc); other ones deriving from the way in which target areas are used (inhabitants, workers, infrastructures and their uses) (Own 2017).”