Resources of the nature and resource of culture: an “original” Metropolis for Reggio Calabria

The paper highlights the originalities offers from metropolitan areas like that of Reggio Calabria. Here the human actions found their peculiarities and richness thanks to the close dialogue with the earth's resources and to their use. So the heritage and the social dynamics participate, more closely than in other places, in the designing the space and in giving prospects for development of the territory. According to an ecological vision of this, as the modern founders of this approach have done between the end of the XV and the first half of the XVI century: Bernardino Telesio with the “Philosophy of Nature” and his disciple Tommaso Campanella, both calabrians. Avoiding the risks and unsustainable choices that might be useful in the short time, but not for the medium or long term. Using the present cultural resources and the remaining natural ones