The cities belonging to the Mediterranean basin are like coffers full of stories, memories and symbols: they are the essential elements for communica-tion and migratory currents between populations. Western culture took birth from the importance of the traditional city, the central place of all the contaminations and of all the trade networks. Ports and cities are historically strongly linked, but there are evident different relationships among them. The main reason related to the reduction of link strength depends on local and global circumstances, and different and peculiar challenges. Authors focus on the Mediterranean dimension of the European coastal cities, and in particular of the so-called Arco Latino as a model of exported and export-able city, with typical recognizable characteristics that are capable to define the identity of places. Arco Latino is a complex system in which socio-cultural, eco-nomic and ecological environments are dynamically interrelated. In particular, the paper aim to describe the main resilient features and peculi-arities of “port cities” and “cities with port” in the Arco Latino area, considering the resilience as the ability to absorb, adapt to and/or rapidly recover from inter-nal and/or external stresses due to the continuous change of citizens needs and/or from potential disruptive event.
Arco Latino: A Model of European Resilience
elisabetta venco
;massimo corsico
2019-01-01
Abstract
The cities belonging to the Mediterranean basin are like coffers full of stories, memories and symbols: they are the essential elements for communica-tion and migratory currents between populations. Western culture took birth from the importance of the traditional city, the central place of all the contaminations and of all the trade networks. Ports and cities are historically strongly linked, but there are evident different relationships among them. The main reason related to the reduction of link strength depends on local and global circumstances, and different and peculiar challenges. Authors focus on the Mediterranean dimension of the European coastal cities, and in particular of the so-called Arco Latino as a model of exported and export-able city, with typical recognizable characteristics that are capable to define the identity of places. Arco Latino is a complex system in which socio-cultural, eco-nomic and ecological environments are dynamically interrelated. In particular, the paper aim to describe the main resilient features and peculi-arities of “port cities” and “cities with port” in the Arco Latino area, considering the resilience as the ability to absorb, adapt to and/or rapidly recover from inter-nal and/or external stresses due to the continuous change of citizens needs and/or from potential disruptive event.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
