L’urbanizzazione delle montagne: motore per società coese o fattore di distruzione delle comunità rurali?

Perlik, Manfred (2022). L’urbanizzazione delle montagne: motore per società coese o fattore di distruzione delle comunità rurali? In: Lorenzetti, Luigi; Leggero, Roberto (eds.) Montagne e territori ibridi tra urbanità e ruralità. Studies on Alpine History (pp. 59-74). Mendrisio: Mendrisio Academy Press

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This chapter examines the process of urbanisation in mountain regions over the past few decades. The author points out how the decline of the Fordist development model with the liberal-productivist (“neoliberal”) turn have integrated mountains into global value chains. This has generated social and ecological costs that impact on their territorial cohesion and environmental sustainability. The analysis shows that the mountains may maintain their qualities if they preserve their non-tourist production and are not reduced to a mere area for residential and leisure consumption based on aesthetic, landscape and ecological values or an idealized rurality. In a situation of global mobility, it is ultimately counterproductive to think of lowland metropolises and mountain areas separately. In this sense, the separate and specific development of mountain areas must be reconsidered in favour of new partnerships between the urban and rural milieus.

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