Perspectives Article
We Should All Have the Right to Link Ourselves More Directly to the Land
Looks at the relations between “man and the land” through the lens of part-time farming in Italy and China.
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Perspectives Article
How Local is Slow Food?
Daniel Philippon looks at local food and how it coincides with Slow Food, given that Slow Food constitutes both a distinctive articulation of the local food movement and the closest thing to an institutional embodiment of that movement as we are likely to find.
Multimedia | film profile
Unfinished Italy
This film investigates how people in Italy respond to the permanently unfinished infrastructure surrounding them.
Multimedia | book profile
Fault Lines: Earthquakes and Urbanism in Modern Italy
Earthquakes occur along fault lines, sometimes with disastrous effects. These disturbances can significantly influence urban development, as seen in the aftermath of two earthquakes in Italy. Fault Lines follows the history of these places before and after their destruction, explores plans and developments that preceded the disasters, and the urbanism that emerged from the ruins.
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"Post-Disaster Migrations and Returns in Sicily: The 1908 Messina Earthquake and the 1968 Belice Valley Earthquake"
This article explores the relationship between disasters and the population movements in two case studies: The 1908 Messina earthquake and the 1968 Belice Valley earthquake.
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“Urbanists and the Environment Between Technique and Politics: The Case of Italy from the Sixties to the Present”
This article examines a trend in town-planning studies known as “reformist” that developed in Italy and marked a deep change in land management concepts. Beginning in the Sixties, it sought to reform the economic growth to limit its negative social and environmental impact.
Perspectives
Sites of Remembering: Landscapes, Lessons, Policies
This volume explores the potential contribution memory studies can make to policymaking, in particular on conservation and disaster resilience.
Perspectives Article
To Whom Does the Story Belong? Earthquake Memories, Narratives, and Policy in Italy
Parrinello examines historical responses to Italian earthquakes.
Perspectives
The Reverse of the Sublime: Dilemmas (and Resources) of the Anthropocene Garden
Serenella Iovino uses the garden as a lens to analyze the impacts of old and new forms of aestheticizing nature on the geology of our planet.
Exhibition chapter
A Language Without Wilderness—Italian | Wilderness Babel
This part of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by historian Luigi Piccioni, comes to the assumption that all the various possible Italian translations of “Wilderness Babel” are unable to transmit this synthesis of natural phenomena and human visions.