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With the aim of identifying different perspectives for the future of territory—starting from the dimension of production in the context of diffuse urbanization—this Ph.D. research intends opening a critical reflection on the dynamics of territorial polarization and marginalization underway in Europe. According to the last European Competitiveness Report drawn up by the European Commission, production is still to be considered as an engine of prosperity linked to the real economy and to the development of the territory; thus the need for a new re-industrialization program for Europe. In recent decades production has been one of the territorial elements exposed to more extensive changes, while at the same time it has become one of the elements least subject to reflection in terms of spatial construction of the territory. In order to avoid the risk of a dualistic model of development, that opposes urban areas to productive and secondary territories, this article claims the need to include production in the debate on the structural specificity and potentialities of the European city-territory as one of its constituent elements.
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The expression “city-territory” was used in Italy in 1962 by Piccinato, Quilici and Tafuri to describe not only the widespread urban condition of some territories, but also to focus the attention on a possible method of development necessary to define a new urban dimension.
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“In the Era of globalization, companies are no longer ingrained but anchored in a territory” (P. Veltz).
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“For a European Industrial Renaissance” European Commission (2014).
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This category of “one-factory cities” and cities listed as examples are drawn from Calafati, from his book “Economie in cerca di città”.
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Sega, R. (2018). Towards a Productive Mesh of the European City-Territory. In: Viganò, P., Cavalieri, C., Barcelloni Corte, M. (eds) The Horizontal Metropolis Between Urbanism and Urbanization. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75975-3_30
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