Creative Urbanity: An Italian Middle Class in the Shade of Revitalization

by Emanuela Guano

In the 1970s, the city of Genoa in northern Italy was suffering the economic decline and the despondency common to industrial centers of the Western world at that time. Deindustrialization made Genoa a bleak, dangerous, angry city, where the unemployment rate rose alongside increasing political violence and crime and led to a massive population loss as residents fled to find jobs and a safer life elsewhere. But by the 1990s a revitalization was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812248783
• ISBN13: 9780812248784
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"