Olbia is an intermediate city: it aspires to serve as a reference point for the Gallura region while functioning as a secondary node connecting local dynamics with global networks. Tracing its cyclical development, characterised by alternating periods of crisis and renewal, the city emerges as a potential laboratory for critically examining contemporary urban transformations, in which processes of implosion and explosion continually reshape the relationships between urban and territorial forms and their underlying spatial and social connections. Urbanisation can no longer be understood simply as the growth of autonomous urban settlements, but must instead be interpreted as a planetary and dispersed process extending across both agglomeration areas and peripheral landscapes. Olbia is emblematic in this respect: an operational landscape in which tourism intersects with logistics and production, and where the imagery associated with the Costa Smeralda is translated into infrastructure, services, and connections operating across multiple spatial scales.
Olbia è una città di mezzo: ambisce ad essere riferimento della Gallura e agisce come nodo collaterale tra dinamiche locali e reti globali. Ripercorrendo il suo svilup- po ciclico, oscillante tra crisi e rinascite, si presenta come un potenziale cantiere per adottare uno sguardo critico sulle trasformazioni urbane contemporanee, in cui logi- che di implosione ed esplosione ridisegnano continuamente i rapporti tra le forme e le relazioni di città e territorio. L’urbanizzazione non può più essere interpretata co- me semplice crescita di unità urbane autonome, ma come processo planetario e dif- fuso, che attraversa aree di agglomerazione e paesaggi periferici. Olbia in questo sen- so è emblematica: un paesaggio operazionale in cui il turismo si intreccia con logisti- ca e produzione, in cui l’immaginario della Costa Smeralda si traduce in infrastruttu- re, servizi e connessioni transcalari
LA CITTÀ COLLATERALE. Dall’invenzione della Costa Smeralda a quella di Olbia
Ettore Donadoni;Davide Simoni;Valentina Rossella Zucca;
2025-01-01
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Olbia is an intermediate city: it aspires to serve as a reference point for the Gallura region while functioning as a secondary node connecting local dynamics with global networks. Tracing its cyclical development, characterised by alternating periods of crisis and renewal, the city emerges as a potential laboratory for critically examining contemporary urban transformations, in which processes of implosion and explosion continually reshape the relationships between urban and territorial forms and their underlying spatial and social connections. Urbanisation can no longer be understood simply as the growth of autonomous urban settlements, but must instead be interpreted as a planetary and dispersed process extending across both agglomeration areas and peripheral landscapes. Olbia is emblematic in this respect: an operational landscape in which tourism intersects with logistics and production, and where the imagery associated with the Costa Smeralda is translated into infrastructure, services, and connections operating across multiple spatial scales.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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