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The Endless Reconstruction and Modern Disasters - The Management of Urban Space Through an Earthquake - Messina, 1908-2018 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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The Endless Reconstruction and Modern Disasters - The Management of Urban Space Through an Earthquake - Messina, 1908-2018 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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This is a study on the long-lasting consequences of a disastrous
earthquake that hit the city of Messina, Sicily, in 1908. The quake
killed about 86,000 people, and destroyed one of the most important
portal cities of the Mediterranean. The book investigates both the
forces that shaped that event and made it possible - firstly, urban
speculation processes at the end of the nineteenth century - and
the role of that occurrence in creating a complex event that, on
the one hand, accelerated trends and tendencies that were already
in motion; and, on the other, produced an entirely new social space
based on social separation and the raise of a widespread marginal
class. Such a class developed within urban borders and spaces that,
over the decades, grew according to the same logic and directions
that followed the reconstruction. Especially the shacks, still a
visible presence in the city, represent the lieu of reproduction
both of a class and the whole of the social relations stemming from
the disaster. It shows how key-concepts in contemporary scientific
analysis, such as "shock economy" and "economy of disaster," can be
aptly backdated. Above all, this study broadens the normal analyses
of disasters by showing the stratification of institutional
techniques and economic forces that, over the decades, intervened
and (re-)shaped the site of a disaster and its social structure.
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