Dal regionalismo al dualismo urbano-suburbano. Alcuni spunti di riflessione sul Mezzogiorno

Abstract. The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed, in Italy, several previous critical issues, including the dichotomous relationship between State and Regions. The emergency management of the pandemic has, in fact, highlighted the contradictions between the two entities in the implementation of operational plans on a different scale. Beyond the exogenous criticalities, in the Regions there are elements of inhomogeneity, the legacy of a past history and of an unbalanced urban-suburban relationship. A dualistic relationship that cannot yet be expressed as a combination or better yet as a single holistic entity, free from any form of differentiation. In this work, a theoretical framework is proposed on the theme of the relationship between the urban nucleus and the peripheral ring, with a short reflection about Southern Italy. The study still highlights the prevalence of a dualism between the center and the periphery, enclosed, into the wider frame relative, on the upper scale, to a differentiated regionalism.