Titolo Storie di quartiere Periodico Geotema Anno: 2010 - Volume: 14 - Fascicolo: 41 - Pagina iniziale: 80 - Pagina finale: 87
Tales from the Neighbourhood
Through an interdisciplinary approach, this paper aims at considering the role of neighbourhoods in contemporary
cities. It suggests that describing neighbourhoods through traditional urban or geographical analyses cannot suffice, and
proposes to employ unconventional representation strategies, such as tale-telling, to help us build efficient and thick urban
descriptions.