Living in Periphery: Searching for a New Model

Journal title ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI
Author/s Giorgio Osti
Publishing Year 2011 Issue 2010/97-98
Language Italian Pages 20 P. 15-34 File size 300 KB
DOI 10.3280/ASUR2010-097003
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The paper’s aim is to verify if and how it is possible nowadays to deal with the perspective of periphery in areas where buildings are extremely diffused and people very mobile. For a long period we used a centre-periphery scheme that well summarised distinct and conflicting lifestyle and social qualities. That scheme is not any more appropriate. Such weakness is not a good reason for going toward a pure subjective construction of periphery. There still are few and general categories to survey the spatial hierarchies of dwelling. Four categories are envisaged: spatial morphology, institutions, motility, and social aggregations. Such categories, variably combined, identify new spaces, not yet named and studied.

Keywords: Periphery, motility, institutions, relationships, spatial forms

Giorgio Osti, Abitare in periferia: alla ricerca di un modello in "ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI" 97-98/2010, pp 15-34, DOI: 10.3280/ASUR2010-097003