1st Edition

Post-Metropolitan Territories Looking for a New Urbanity

    342 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    342 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Processes of multi-scalar regional urbanization are occurring worldwide. Such processes are clearly distinguishable from those of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries due to the shifting concepts of both the city and the metropolis. International literature highlights how what we have historically associated with the idea of cities has long been subjected to consistent reconfiguration, which involves stressing some of the typical features of the idea of "cityness".

    Post-Metropolitan Territories: Looking for a New Urbanity is the product of a research project funded by the Italian Ministry for Education, Universities and Research (MIUR). It constitutes a thorough overview of a country that is one of Europe's most diverse in terms of regional development and performance: Italy. This book brings together case studies of a number of Italian cities and their hinterlands and looks at new forms of urbanization, exploring themes of sustainability, industrialization, de-industrialization, governance, city planning and quality of life.

    This volume will be of great interest to academics and students who study regional development, economic geography and urban studies, as well as civil servants and policymakers in the field of spatial planning, urban policy, territorial policies and governance.

    PART I

    Building an atlas of post-metropolitan Italy

    1 Post-metropolitan territories as emergent forms of urban space

    ALESSANDRO BALDUCCI, VALERIA FEDELI AND FRANCESCO CURCI

    2 Towards an observatory of urban Italy: methodological challenges of the ‘Atlas of post-metropolitan territories’

    ALESSANDRO BALDUCCI, VALERIA FEDELI, FRANCESCO CURCI AND FABIO MANFREDINI

    PART II

    Regional portraits: looking inside the squares

    3 Milan beyond the metropolis

    ALESSANDRO BALDUCCI, VALERIA FEDELI AND FRANCESCO CURCI

    4 Turin metropolitan region: from path-dependency dynamics to current challenges

    NADIA CARUSO AND SILVIA SACCOMANI

    5 Genesis of a fluid metropolitan space: urban metamorphoses in Venice and Veneto

    LAURA FREGOLENT AND LUCIANO VETTORETTO

    6 Territory matters: a regional portrait of Florence and Tuscany

    GIANCARLO PABA, CAMILLA PERRONE, FABIO LUCCHESI ANDIACOPO ZETTI

    7 Transformations of the "urban" in Rome’s post-metropolitan cityscape

    CARLO CELLAMARE

    8 The Neapolitan urban kaleidoscope

    GIOVANNI LAINO

    9 Palermo: an incomplete post-metropolitan area

    FRANCESCA LOTTA, MARCO PICONE AND FILIPPO SCHILLECI

    10 South-eastern Sicily: a counterfactual post-metropolis

    FRANCESCO LO PICCOLO, MARCO PICONE AND VINCENZO TODARO

    11 The territory of the Sardinian Province of Olbia-Tempio on the post-metropolitan horizon: from edge area to node of a new city-world

    LIDIA DECANDIA

    PART III

    Post-metropolis: looking across the squares

    12 Corridors as post-metropolitan connectors: the Italian case

    PAOLO PERULLI, LAURA LIETO, LUCA GARAVAGLIA AND DANIELE PENNATI

    13 Place matters: spatial implications of post-metropolitan transition

    GIANCARLO PABA AND CAMILLA PERRONE

    14 Institutions matter: governance and citizenship in a post-metropolitan perspective

    VALERIA FEDELI

    15 S-regulation matters

    DANIELA DE LEO AND MARIA FEDERICA PALESTINO

    16 Urban typologies within contemporary Italian urbanization

    LAURA FREGOLENT AND LUCIANO VETTORETTO, WITH MARCO BOTTARO AND FRANCESCO CURCI

    17 Is Italy still special? Conceptual and empirical remarks on urbanization in the era of globalization

    CARLO CELLAMARE AND LUCIANO VETTORETTO

    18 Conclusions

    ALESSANDRO BALDUCCI, VALERIA FEDELI AND FRANCESCO CURCI

    Biography

    Alessandro Balducci is Full Professor of Urban Planning and member of the PhD Program in Urban Planning and Policy Design at Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

    Valeria Fedeli is Associate Professor in Urban Planning at Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

    Francesco Curci is Research Fellow at the Politecnico di Milano and lecturer at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy.