Post-Metropolitan Territories Looking for a New Urbanity

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 Urbanityis 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 diversein 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 volumewill beof 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

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.