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Urban Regionalisation Processes

Governance of Post-Urban Phenomena in Sicily

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Editors:
  1. Francesco Lo Piccolo

    1. DARCH, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

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  2. Marco Picone

    1. DARCH, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

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  3. Vincenzo Todaro

    1. DARCH, University of Palermo, PALERMO, Italy

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  • Explores the urban regionalization phenomena in a marginal territorial context, such as Sicily
  • Brought together an interdisciplinary group of scholars (planners, geographers, demographers etc.) on the much debated issue of urban regionalization phenomena
  • Addresses researchers who study regional development, economic geography and urban studies, as well as civil servants and policymakers in the fields of spatial planning, urban policy, territorial governance

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Urban Regionalisation Processes in Sicily: From the Theoretical Framework to the Local Dynamics

    • Francesco Lo Piccolo, Annalisa Giampino, Marco Picone, Vincenzo Todaro
    Pages 1-17

  3. Spatial Phenomena

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. From the Metropolitan Areas to the Post-metropolitan Dimension

      • Marco Picone, Francesco Lo Piccolo, Filippo Schilleci
      Pages 21-63

    3. Forms and Processes of Settlement Pressure on Natural Systems

      • Filippo Schilleci, Annalisa Giampino, Vincenzo Todaro
      Pages 65-84

    4. An Analysis of the Residential Segregation of Foreigners in the Municipality of Palermo

      • Annalisa Busetta, Angelo Mazza, Manuela Stranges
      Pages 85-97

  4. Informal Practices

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. Housing Issue and Right to Housing in Palermo

      • Annalisa Giampino, Francesco Lo Piccolo, Vincenzo Todaro
      Pages 101-119

    3. New Inhabitants for the Re-use of Historical Territories in South-Eastern Sicily

      • Giuseppe Abbate
      Pages 121-145

    4. Landscape of Exception as Spatial and Social Interaction Between High-Quality Agricultural Production and Immigrant Labour Exploitation

      • Vincenzo Todaro, Francesco Lo Piccolo
      Pages 147-164

    5. The Power of Fiction in Creating a Territory’s Image

      • Vincenzo Todaro, Annalisa Giampino, Francesco Lo Piccolo
      Pages 165-179

  5. Institutional Policies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181
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    2. In Search of the Metropolitan Dimension

      • Francesca Lotta
      Pages 183-191

    3. Urbanisation and Urban Regionalisation Processes in the Metropolitan Area of Palermo

      • Annalisa Giampino
      Pages 193-203

    4. Housing Affordability for Urban Regions

      • Giulia Bonafede, Grazia Napoli
      Pages 205-233
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • DARCH, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

    Francesco Lo Piccolo, Marco Picone

  • DARCH, University of Palermo, PALERMO, Italy

    Vincenzo Todaro

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Urban Regionalisation Processes

  • Book Subtitle: Governance of Post-Urban Phenomena in Sicily

  • Editors: Francesco Lo Piccolo, Marco Picone, Vincenzo Todaro

  • Series Title: UNIPA Springer Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64469-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64468-0Published: 29 January 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64471-0Published: 29 January 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-64469-7Published: 28 January 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2366-7516

  • Series E-ISSN: 2366-7524

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 233

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 107 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Geography, general, Regional/Spatial Science, Urban Studies/Sociology

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