Post-Metropolitan Territories

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.

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