
Urban Regionalisation Processes
Governance of Post-Urban Phenomena in Sicily
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 29. January 2021
Book
Hardback
XI, 233 pages
978-3-030-64468-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores the issues of transformation phenomena of the urban dimension (regionalization processes) that traditional scientific literature fails to describe appropriately. So far, scholars have adopted a widespread dominant perspective that proved unable to grasp the essence of post-modern complexities that urban spaces imply. The book provides a taxonomy, in order to describe the rules of these new and peculiar cities, by using the living dimension as a device for the epistemological breaking down of traditional socio-spatial analyses. After a thorough theoretical introduction, it describes two Sicilian case studies that prove particularly relevant to the construction of a new, alternative urban regionalization theory. These two areas, Palermo and South-Eastern Sicily, are described through several aspects, such as the role of migrants and migrations in defining urban regionalization, the power of fiction and the new urban forms that are slowly emerging in Sicily. Overall, this book provides a refreshing view of what Sicily has been and is becoming, by deconstructing most of its clichés and suggesting theoretical perspectives grounded in both quantitative and qualitative analyses.
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Series
Edition
2021 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
7 s/w Abbildungen, 107 farbige Abbildungen
XI, 233 p. 114 illus., 107 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
541 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-030-64468-0 (9783030644680)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-64469-7
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Francesco Lo Piccolo | Marco Picone | Vincenzo Todaro
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Governance of Post-Urban Phenomena in Sicily
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Francesco Lo Piccolo | Marco Picone | Vincenzo Todaro
Urban Regionalisation Processes
Governance of Post-Urban Phenomena in Sicily
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Content
Urban Regionalisation Processes in Sicily: from the Theoretical Framework to the Local Dynamics.- Spatial Phenomena.- Informal Practices.- Institutional Policies.