Forgotten Italy

The forgotten Italian territories have almost always been understood as compact physical and conceptual spaces. While changing its terms, borders, issues from time to time, the regions described through a homogeneous image: Mezzogiorno, peripheries Inner Areas. Such representation has effects both in conceptualization efforts taken recompose gaps between most active parts. Yet, recent years, numerous crises of 21st century shattered this brought out new geography Italy, Italia di mezzo. is no longer linked only North-South dichotomy does not concern metropolitan suburbs or inland areas. highlights how be now also piece on margins public policies, underestimated by scientific research but at center twentieth-century urbanization process crisis.