The Environmental Planning section of MantovaLab deals with issues related to urban and large area planning, with particular reference to the issues of assessing the suitability and sustainability of plan choices. The issues addressed by the research can be summarised as follows: the environmental and sustainability issue according to the ecological approach to land planning; the analytical cognitive approach as an interpretation of the distinctive characteristics of places and territorial differences; adoption of the territorial repair perspective as a pro-active approach to the development of the historic and cultural heritage and activation of local resources.