The chapter focuses on the relevance of commercial transformations in processes of urban change. By investigating the modifications in the commercial and recreational landscape of a semi-central neighbourhood of the city of Turin, a previous one-company-town in the north-west of Italy, the chapter argues that commercial changes have a major role in challenging established uses and representations, affecting the urban spaces in both symbolic and material terms and possibly supporting dynamics of socio-spatial inequalities. Even if the relevance of commercial premises in shaping how a neighbourhood is perceived, described and used in everyday life has been acknowledged and the development of urban landscapes of leisure and consumption is currently a key dynamic in processes of urban upgrading, only in recent times have scholars started wondering how these processes may play into broader dynamics of urban change and social inequality. The centrality that consumption, leisure and entertainment are acquiring in post-industrial cities urges to closely investigate these processes and their social, cultural and economic implications.

Material Changes, Symbolic Transformations: Commercial Gentrification and Urban Change in Turin, Italy / Bolzoni, Magda - In: Diversity of Urban Inclusivity. Perspectives Beyond Gentrification in Advanced City-Regions / Mizuuchi T., Kornatowski G., Fukumoto T.. - Singapore : Springer, 2023. - ISBN 978-981-19-8527-0. - pp. 65-81 [10.1007/978-981-19-8528-7_5]

Material Changes, Symbolic Transformations: Commercial Gentrification and Urban Change in Turin, Italy

Bolzoni, Magda
2023

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The chapter focuses on the relevance of commercial transformations in processes of urban change. By investigating the modifications in the commercial and recreational landscape of a semi-central neighbourhood of the city of Turin, a previous one-company-town in the north-west of Italy, the chapter argues that commercial changes have a major role in challenging established uses and representations, affecting the urban spaces in both symbolic and material terms and possibly supporting dynamics of socio-spatial inequalities. Even if the relevance of commercial premises in shaping how a neighbourhood is perceived, described and used in everyday life has been acknowledged and the development of urban landscapes of leisure and consumption is currently a key dynamic in processes of urban upgrading, only in recent times have scholars started wondering how these processes may play into broader dynamics of urban change and social inequality. The centrality that consumption, leisure and entertainment are acquiring in post-industrial cities urges to closely investigate these processes and their social, cultural and economic implications.
2023
978-981-19-8527-0
978-981-19-8528-7
Diversity of Urban Inclusivity. Perspectives Beyond Gentrification in Advanced City-Regions
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