Urban Regionalisation Processes in Sicily: From the Theoretical Framework to the Local Dynamics

This introductory chapter proposes a mainly theoretical reflection on the category of the urban, both as a spatial and social product and as an economic and political one, in territories marked by settlement transformation phenomena. In tracking this evolutionary path, this chapter addresses the huge thematic bibliography on the phenomena of urban regionalisation without any demand for systematic approach but pursuing the aim of tracing the geography of this on-going transition in Sicily.