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The Endless Reconstruction and Modern Disasters: The Management of Urban Space Through an Earthquake - Messina, 1908-2018

The Endless Reconstruction and Modern Disasters: The Management of Urban Space Through an Earthquake - Messina, 1908-2018

Farinella, Domenica
Saitta, Pietro

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Environmental StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3030193608
ISBN13: 9783030193607
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jun 27 2019
Pages: 290
Weight: 1.42
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This is a study on the long-lasting consequences of a disastrous earthquake that hit the city of Messina, Sicily, in 1908. The quake killed about 86,000 people, and destroyed one of the most important portal cities of the Mediterranean. The book investigates both the forces that shaped that event and made it possible - firstly, urban speculation processes at the end of the nineteenth century - and the role of that occurrence in creating a complex event that, on the one hand, accelerated trends and tendencies that were already in motion; and, on the other, produced an entirely new social space based on social separation and the raise of a widespread marginal class. Such a class developed within urban borders and spaces that, over the decades, grew according to the same logic and directions that followed the reconstruction. Especially the shacks, still a visible presence in the city, represent the lieu of reproduction both of a class and the whole of the social relations stemming from the disaster.

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