A research developed in 2006 – 2007 by a cluster gathering scholars from the schools of Architecture of Venice, Genoa, Ascoli Piceno and Udine on the transformation of the Italian landscape. Starting from the study of a diffuse but misconceived infrastructural realm: that of small airports and landing surfaces. The identity of the local qualities compared to the capillarity characterizing the sprawl of the small airports defines the new “scenarios” of interaction and them the airports as possible “hubs” of a new landscape.