Italian Cityscapes

Description

This book examines the transformation of the Italian city from the 1950s to the present with particular attention to questions of identity, migration and changes in urban culture. It focuses on two phases of that transformation: the years of accelerated industrialisation in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the period of de-industrialisation and postmodernity beginning in the 1980s.

 

 

It shows how major demographic movements and cultural shifts threw into relief new conceptions of the city in which old boundaries had become problematic. Design, fine art, literature, youth culture, film and social history all provide focal points. The contributions bring specialist expertise to each area while the extensive illustrations give a vivid picture of the contemporary visual culture for which Italian cities are famed.

 

 

This is a genuinely interdisciplinary approach by Italian and English-speaking historians and scholars of urban studies, literature, architecture and design which introduces new debates and research to an English-speaking audience for the first time. Extensive illustrations provide a vivid picture of contemporary Italian visual culture.

 

 

 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.

 

 

Sujets

• European Studies
• Social Science
• urban planning
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Sociology
• List of cities in Italy by population
• Culture of Italy
• Modernity
• Cultural studies
• 20th century
• Italy
• Anthropology
• My Last Duchess
• Études européennes
• History
• Urban
• Social
• Culture

Informations

• Publié par: University of Exeter Press
• Date de parution: 02 mars 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780859899222
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 12 Mo

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I T A L I A N I T A L I A N c i t y s c a p e s

c i t y s c a p e s

Lumley & Foot

Culture and urban change in contemporary Italy

edited by Robert Lumley and John Foot

I TA L I A N

C I T Y S C A P E S

Italian Cityscapesexamines the transformation of the Italian city from the 1950s to the present with particular attention to questions of identity, migration and changes in urban culture. It focuses on two phases of that transformation: the years of accelerated industrialisation in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the period of de-industrialisation and postmodernity beginning in the 1980s.

The book shows how major demographic movements and cultural shifts threw into relief new conceptions of the city in which old boundaries had become problematic. Design, fine art, literature, youth culture, film and social history all provide focal points.

‘I TALIAN C ITYSCAPES provides a model of interdisciplinary scholarship and a new contribution to the study of city cultures.’ Penny Sparke, Professor of Design History, Kingston University, London

‘T HE EDITORS —R OBERT L UMLEY , one of the founders of the field of Italian Cultural Studies, and J OHN F OOT ,thebiographer of contemporary Milan— do a remarkably subtle and intelligent job of anchoring the post-modern preoccupations with cultural identity, contested meanings, public space, citizenship, race, gender, memory and place in the concreteness of in-depth multi-faceted studies of Milan, Naples, Palermo and Turin.’ Marta Petrusewicz, Professor of Modern European History, City University of New York

The editors:Robert Lumley is Professor of Italian Cultural History, University College London. He is editor, with Jonathan Morris, ofThe New History of the Italian South(UEP, 1997) and, with D. Forgacs, ofItalian Cultural Studies(OUP, 1996). John Foot is Lecturer in Italian History, University College London. He is author ofMilan since the Miracle (Berg, 2001) andModern Italy(Palgrave, 2003).

Contributions by:Halldóra Arnardóttir; Enrica Capussotti; Pippo Ciorra; Nicholas Dines; Mary Louise Lobsinger; Abele Longo; Laura Maritano; Claudia Nocentini; Sergio Pace; Gianfranco Petrillo; Giuliana Pieri; Sandra Ponzanesi.

I TA L I A N C I T Y S C A P E S Culture and Urban Change in Contemporary Italy

edited by Robert Lumley and John Foot

First published 2004 by University of Exeter Press Reed Hall, Streatham Drive Exeter EX4 4QR UK www.ex.ac.uk/uep/

© Robert Lumley, John Foot and the individual contributors 2004

The right of Robert Lumley, John Foot and the individual contributors to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Paperback ISBN 0 85989 737 0 Hardback ISBN 0 85989 736 2

Typeset in 10.5/13pt Baskerville by Exe Valley Dataset Ltd, Exeter

Printed in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham

C ONTENTS

List of Illustrations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . List of Maps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . Illustration Acknowledgements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Notes on Contributors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Acknowledgements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .

Signposts: An Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ROBERT LUMLEY AND JOHN FOOT

PART I OVERVIEW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Through the Looking-Glass: Research on the Italian City in Historical Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SERGIO PACE

PART II MIGRATION: OLD CITIES, NEW IDENTITIES . . . . 2 The Two Waves: Milan as a City of Immigration, 1955–1995 . GIANFRANCO PETRILLO 3 Revisiting theCoree. Self-construction, Memory and Immigration on the Milanese Periphery, 1950–2000 . . . . . . . JOHN FOOT

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Immigration, Nationalism and Exclusionary Understandings of Place in Turin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LAURA MARITANO

PART III URBAN RENEWAL AND TROUBLED MODERNITY 5 Architectural Utopias andLa Nuova Dimensione: Turin in the 1960s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARY LOUISE LOBSINGER

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Contents

Architecture and Modernity in Post-war Milan . . . . . . . . . . . . HALLDÓRA ARNARDÓTTIR

Turin after Arte Povera: A New City of Art? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ROBERT LUMLEY

Contested Claims to Public Space: The Re-imaging of Naples and the Case of Piazza Plebiscito . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NICHOLAS DINES

PART IV URBAN FICTIONS: ‘HIGH’ AND ‘LOW’ . . . . . . . . . . 9 Calvino in Turin: Writer and Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CLAUDIA NOCENTINI 10 Crime and the City in the Detective Fiction of Giorgio Scerbanenco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GIULIANA PIERI

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Imaginary Cities: Space and Identity in Italian Literature of Immigration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SANDRA PONZANESI

PART V GREY ZONES: CINEMA AND THE CITY . . . . . . . . . . 12 Scenarios of Modernity: Youth Culture in 1950s Milan . . . . . ENRICA CAPUSSOTTI 13 Palermo in the Films of Ciprì and Maresco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ABELE LONGO

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ENDPIECE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 14Adriati-città. . . . . . . . . 199: Notes on a Post-industrial Landscape PIPPO CIORRA

Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Cover

I LLUSTRATIONS

Mountain of Saltby Mimmo Paladino (1995), photograph by Gianni Fiorito

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Colour(at beginning and end of Plate section) I Atrium of Castello di Rivoli with Pier Paolo Calzolari’sColumns (2001) (see Chapter 7) II Inside Castello di Rivoli, with the workUntitled(1997) by Marisa Merz (see Chapter 7) III Hotel House in field,Adriati-città(Pippo Ciorra) (see Chapter 14) IV Hotel House, outside entrance (Pippo Ciorra) (see Chapter 14)

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Black and White(first digit indicates associated chapter) 3.1 Aerial photograph of Cerchiarello (Archivio Airaghi) 3.2 Girls in field, Cerchiarello (Archivio Rana) 3.3 Houses under construction, street in Cerchiarello (Archivio Modena) 3.4 Wedding Procession, Cerchiarello (Archivio Rana) 3.5 House in Cerchiarello (John Foot) 5.1 Map of the site for the competition for thecentro direzionale, Turin, Casabella continuità, 278 (August 1963) 5.2 Image of ‘Akropolis 9 Proposal’,Casabella continuità, 278 (August 1963) 5.3 Image of ‘Biancaneve e i 7 nani Proposal’,Casabella continuità, 278 (August 1963) 5.4 Image of ‘Badeba Proposal’,Casabella continuità, 278 (August 1963) 5.5 Image of ‘Toro Seduta 12 Proposal’,Casabella continuità, 278 (August 1963) 5.6 Image of ‘Locomotiva 2 Proposal’, Canadian Center for Architecture 6.1 Pirelli tower,Domus, 316 (1956) 6.2 Pirelli tower,Domus, 316 (1956) 6.3 Velasca tower,Zodiac, 4 (1959) 6.4 Velasca tower,Zodiac, 4 (1959) 7.1Lights(1968) by Gilberto Zorio 7.2Self-portrait(1968) by Giulio Paolini 7.3 Depositio d’Arte Presente, Turin (1968)

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Illustrations

Aerial photograph of Piazza Plebiscito, Naples, 1994 (Archivio Fotografico Parisio) Newspaper advertisement for Meridiana airlines, 1999 Statue with banners after demonstration by immigrants, Piazza Plebiscito, Naples, 1999 (Nicholas Dines) Demonstration by immigrants in Piazza Plebiscito, Naples, 2000 (Nicholas Dines) ‘La follia del rock’,Settimo Giorno, 27 October 1956 Dancing rock ’n’ roll in Milan,Settimo Giorno, 27 October 1956 ‘Queste sono le figure base’,Settimo Giorno, 27 October 1956 Shot from Ciprì and Maresco’sA memoria(1996) Shot from Ciprì and Maresco’sLo zio di Brooklyn(1995)0 Shot from Ciprì and Maresco’sTotò che visse due volte(1998)

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Map of Milan area (John Foot) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Map of Turin showing San Salvario (Susan Rowland) . . . . . . . . Map of Naples (Nicholas Dines) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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A CKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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We would like to thank the following for their kind permission to reproduce photo- graphs and images: Editoriale Domus for reproductions from the magazinesDomus, Casabella continuitàandZodiac; the Canadian Center for Architecture for the image of the Locomotiva 2 Project; Gianni Fiorito for the photograph of theMountain of Salt; Archivio Fotografico Parisio/Stefano Fittipaldi for the aerial photograph of Piazza Plebiscito, Naples; Archivio Rana, Archivio Modena and the Archivio Airaghi for photographic documentation of Cerchiarello. Dr Marcello Levi kindly gave permission for reproduction of the photograph of the Deposito d’Arte Presente and of Gilberto Zorio’s Lights(1968) on exhibition there, and Giulio Paolini gave permission for reproduction of his workSelf-portrait(1968). Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, provided the images of the atrium with the work by Pier Paolo Calzolari and of the interior with the workUntitledImages from Ciprì and Maresco’s(1997) by Marisa Merz. filmsLo zio di Brooklyn(1995),A Memoria(1997) andTotò che visse due volte(1998) have been reproduced by kind permission of Cinico Cinema. Thanks also to Susan Rowland for the map of San Salvario, and to authors who have contributed maps and illustrations, namely Nicholas Dines, John Foot and Pippo Ciorra. Every effort has been made to trace and acknowledge owners of copyright. Any queries regarding omissions should be sent to the publisher.

Acknowledgements

N OTES OF C ONTRIBUTORS

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Halldóra Arnardóttirhas a Ph.D. from University College London. She is a critic on architecture and design for the newspapersMorgunbladid in Iceland,La VerdadandABC Culturalin Spain, and for the magazines TMMandAVSin Iceland. In her many articles in European magazines, her main focus is on cultural issues in contemporary society, and in particular, how architecture is no longer self referential but embodies a multidisciplinary character. Enrica Capussottiis Research Fellow at the Gender Programme (Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute, Florence) and Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute of Romance Studies (University of London). Her more recent publications are ‘Modelli femminili e giovani spettatrici: donne e cinema in Italia durante gli anni cinquanta’, in N. Filippini, T. Plebani and A. Scattigno (eds),Corpi e storia(Viella, 2002) and ‘Vitelloni, ribelli, teenagers: mascilità e culture giovanili negli anni cinquanta’,Contemporanea, 3 (2003). Her book on youth and Italian mass culture during the 1950s is forthcoming from Giunti edizioni. Her current areas of research are an oral history project on migration and gender, and a cultural history of contemporary migration in Italy and Spain. Pippo Ciorrais Associate Professor in Architectural Composition at the Faculty of Architecture in Ascoli Piceno. His publications include Lodovico Quaroni, 1911–1987(Milan, 1989),La metropoli dopo(ed. with G. Mastrigli) (Rome 2002) and ‘Dire Streets’, in L. Coccia and M.T. Granato (eds),Ascoli-Mare, un’autostrada senza pedaggio(Naples 2000). Nick Dineswas Research Assistant at University College London on the ‘Memory and Place in the Twentieth-Century Italian City’ Project financed by the Arts and Humanities Research Board from 2001 to 2003. He is currently working on memories of the 1980 earthquake in two neighbourhoods in central Naples. His publications include ‘Centri sociali: occupazioni autogestite a Napoli negli anni 90’,Quaderni di Sociologia, 21 (1999) and ‘Urban Renewal, Immigration and Contested Claims to Public Space: The Case of Piazza Garibaldi in Naples’, Geojournal(Spring 2004).