Open AccessThe Centre-Periphery Dialectics in Eastern Sicily Retail System. An Exploratory Research
Author(s) -
Caterina Barilaro,
Caterina Cirelli,
Teresa Graziano,
Leonardo Mercatanti
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
bollettino della società geografica italiana
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2974-5780
pISSN - 1121-7820
DOI - 10.36253/bsgi-1000
Subject(s) - metropolitan area , dichotomy , economic geography , dialectic , geography , consumption (sociology) , exploratory research , regional science , economy , perspective (graphical) , political science , sociology , archaeology , anthropology , social science , art , economics , visual arts , philosophy , epistemology
This paper aims at scrutinizing from an historical perspective the deep transformations shaped by retail spaces and new consumption patterns challenging long-entrenched dichotomies, such as the centre-periphery one. In particular, the exploratory research explores the territorial reconfiguration of the main Eastern Sicily metropolitan areas, Catania and Messina, from the lens of the retail geography, namely after the diffusion of new suburban retail formats which have completely upset deeply-rooted relations between urban core and suburban rings.