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INTERPRETING URBAN SPACES IN ITALIAN CULTURES, pp.245-264, 2025 (SSCI, Scopus)
This paper explores urban space as described in In Asia (1998), a collection of articles written between 1965 and 1997 by Tiziano Terzani, a famous Italian traveler and journalist. As a "reader" of the city, the author provides a heterogeneous visual picture of a large geographical area and portrays countries undergoing accelerated development or bound to past traditions. In these textual factual narrations, Terzani deconstructs urban space into fragments that convey his critical stance against modernity while actively studying history in the making. In his mainly horizontal reading, he reports on the continuous juxtapositions that characterize urban space and the humanity that ultimately shapes it.