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Aligning Inner Peripheries with rural development in Italy: Territorial evidence to support policy contextualization
2021
Abstract Inner Peripheries is a recent concept based on both peripherality and marginality features, thus far from the commonly adopted geographical notion of periphery. Inner Peripheries are fragile territories covering rural Europe, which suffer from depopulation, low economic potential, and weak territorial cohesion. However, these territories are extremely important for the provision of goods and services, and the stewardship of natural and semi-natural environments. Such dichotomous condition poses several challenges for planning in the EU context, particularly regarding the implementation of the Rural Development Policy. Therefore, current planning needs to contextualize the policy im…
THE INNER TERRITORIES: FROM THE MARGINS TO COSMOPOLITAN CENTRES
2021
The article proposes a reflection on the cosmopolitanism linked to the “marginalised” parts of Italy, where social, economic, and infrastructural decline and the consequent abandonment of places are met with stories of renewal in which the relationship between inhabitants and foreigners constitutes the basis for starting local development processes able to activate new urban networks based on cultural interaction and to generate resilient relations, welcoming processes, and new communities. In this new “cosmopolitan nomadism”, we can recognise an opportunity for territories and communities to regenerate spatial and social relations: innovation and culture, permanent exchange, and neutral en…
The territorial and social metamorphosis of the Inner Peripheries
2019
The paper debates the theme of the Inner Peripheries that, in their complexity and diversity, represent those territories in which a rethinking of the rural/urban, society/territory, society/economy, territory/production and community/landscape relationship is increasingly urgent for the sustainability, to interrupt the process of abandonment and to strengthen and network the small experiences of innovation that are taking place and that are showing that they can be welcoming and functional places, capable of realizing new local centralities with global attractiveness. With the aim of opening a debate on the role that inner peripheries can take in a multi-scale territorial scenario and on t…