Italian cityscapes : culture and urban change in Italy from the 1950s to the present /: culture and urban change in Italy from the 1950s to the present. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Robert Lumley and John Foot.
• Editors: Lumley, Robert, 1951-; Foot, John, 1964-
• Contents: ; List of Illustrations, vii; List of Maps, viii; Illustration Acknowledgements, viii; Notes on Contributors, ix; Acknowledgements, xii; Signposts: An Introduction ROBERT LUMLEY AND JOHN FOOT, 1; PART I OVERVIEW, 13; 1 Through the Looking-Glass: Research on the Italian City in Historical Perspective SERGIO PACE, 15; PART II MIGRATION: OLD CITIES, NEW IDENTITIES, 29; 2 The Two Waves: Milan as a City of Immigration, 1955-1995 GIANFRANCO PETRILLO, 31; 3 Revisiting the Coree. Self-construction, Memory and Immigration on the Milanese Periphery, 1950-2000 JOHN FOOT, 46; 4 Immigration, Nationalism and Exclusionary Understandings of Place in Turin LAURA MARITANO, 61; PART III URBAN RENEWAL AND TROUBLED MODERNITY, 75; 5 Architectural Utopias and La Nuova Dimensione: Turin in the 1960s MARY LOUISE LOBSINGER, 77. 6 Architecture and Modernity in Post-war Milan HALLDORA ARNARDOTTIR, 90; 7 Turin after Arte Povera: A New City of Art? ROBERT LUMLEY, 100; 8 Contested Claims to Public Space: The Re-imaging of Naples and the Case of Piazza Plebiscito NICHOLAS DINES, 114; PART IV URBAN FICTIONS: 'HIGH' AND 'LOW', 127; 9 Calvino in Turin: Writer and Editor CLAUDIA NOCENTINI, 129; 10 Crime and the City in the Detective Fiction of Giorgio Scerbanenco GIULIANA PIERI, 144; 11 Imaginary Cities: Space and Identity in Italian Literature of Immigration SANDRA PONZANESI, 156; PART V GREY ZONES: CINEMA AND THE CITY, 167; 12 Scenarios of Modernity: Youth Culture in 1950s Milan ENRICA CAPUSSOTTI, 169; 13 Palermo in the Films of Cipri and Maresco ABELE LONGO, 185; ENDPIECE, 197; 14 Adriati-citta: Notes on a Post-industrial Landscape PIPPO CIORRA, 199; Notes, 204; Index, 237. ;
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Exeter : University of Exeter Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 307.760945; Cities and towns -- Italy -- History; Italy -- Civilization -- 1945-; Italy -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780859899222
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