Peripheries: from the game of opposites to the urban archipelago

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE
Author/s Giampaolo Nuvolati
Publishing Year 2022 Issue 2022/127
Language Italian Pages 12 P. 27-38 File size 246 KB
DOI 10.3280/SUR2022-127003
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Urban sociology is in a phase of reconsideration of the paradigms that have characterized it for a good part of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century. Today the relaunch of the discipline strongly depends on the questioning of dichotomies such as ur-ban vs. rural, center vs. periphery, local vs. global, and the acceptance of a more complex and original articulation of the constituent parts of social phenomena at the territorial level. In par-ticular, this contribution proposes a reflection that, starting from the concept of archipelago, redesigns the urban in a perspective where the concept of periphery loses the meaning usually attributed to it, to be replaced by that of polycentrism. This approach does not deny the im-portance of the territories and the geo-referencing of the phenomena, but frames them in a broader and geometrically variable perspective.

Keywords: urban theories, urbanization, suburbs, polycentrism, urban archipelago, research methodology

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Giampaolo Nuvolati, Periferie: dal gioco degli opposti all’arcipelago urbano in "SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE" 127/2022, pp 27-38, DOI: 10.3280/SUR2022-127003