The post-metropolitan area of Milan is a regionalised assemblage marked by historical differences between the territories that compose it._x000D_
The current capitalist economic phase is described by many authors as characterised by a dual process. On the one hand an unclear decrease in inequalities at the intercontinental level, on the other hand an increase in inequalities at the intra-national and intra-regional level._x000D_
The upheaval of traditional hierarchies between centre and periphery brings with it a flattening of differences between urban and suburban to which, however, does not necessarily correspond a flattening of social inequalities or conflicts. It is therefore necessary to recalibrate the study of the peripheries through an integrated approach that, alongside the classic socio-economic elements, considers, in a broader way, the capacities of the various social groups to organise the response, in collective or individual form, to their own needs._x000D_
In particular, the analysis focuses on the effect of the economic and financial crisis of 2007 on the concentration within the urban region of the different social groups in relation to the unequal distribution of resources and capital, understanding how the crisis acted on the one hand on the production system and thus on the accumulation of private capital and on the other hand on the spending capacity of public institutions._x000D_
What emerges, in the decade following the outbreak of the crisis, is an increase in the socio-residential specialisation of territories linked to path dependence dynamics of the embrittlement of certain territories and the concentration of capital in a few enclaves selected by the metropolitan elite, exacerbated by the differential capacity of municipal authorities to provide for the needs of their resident population. _x000D_
The result is a new image of the Milanese periphery obtained from mapping the differential access of social groups to the resources distributed within the Milanese urban region.

Andrea Visioli
Università IUAV di Venezia and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

 
ID Abstract: 889