OPERATIONAL
GEOGRAPHIES

Spatial strategies and dynamic maps of regional urbanization

A basic research project on new forms of production from Northern Italy

Quadrante Europa, Verona. Elaborated from Google Maps 2022

Two ‘territorial sentinels’. Between Bergamo and Brescia / Mantua East
available online from 04.18.2024

Roles and tools of policymakers for territories of production
05.17.2023

Open talk on new forms of production in Northern Italy 
12.02.2022

San Martino industrial district in Trecate (Novara). Elaborated from Google Maps 2022

Striking elements

Relational figures in Northen Italy

Super-concentrations

Amazon Centre and Rovigo Photovoltaic park in San Bellino (Rovigo). Elaborated from Google Maps 2022

How are the territories of production, exchange and support of large concentrations and dispersions changing in regional urbanisation as a result of recent global crises?
How to trace their geographies, spatial strategies, actors and powers emerging in a framework of accelerated planning and increasing complexity?
How can we be content with an interpretation that tells us that cities and regions are losers or successful, metropolitan or remote, if this reading stops at the ‘flat’ contiguity of administrative boundaries?

Vado Gateway, port of Vado Ligure (Savona) – Ports of Genoa. Elaborated from Google Maps 2022