Environment and Urbanization in Modern Italy

by Federico Paolini

From the second half of the 1940s, when postwar reconstruction began in Italy, there were three notable driving forces of environmental change: the uncontrollable process of urban drift, fueled by considerable migratory flows from the countryside and southern regions toward the cities where large-scale productive activities were beginning to amass; unruly industrial development, which was tolerated since it was seen as the necessary tribute to be...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822945932
• ISBN13: 9780822945932
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"