This issue proposes a reflection starting from a research carried out by professors and researchers of the Sapienza University of Rome on the Roman metropolitan area,i whose goal was to understand how new and original landscape strategies could contribute, in a concrete way, to the environmental and social reactivation of metropolitan settlements, triggering new forms of collective identification, defending and strengthening biodiversity, starting new economies connected to social innovation, and thus contributing to strengthen the degree of resilience of settled communities.