Carlo Salone

Università degli Studi di Torino, Inter-university Department of Urban and Regional Studies and Planning, Faculty Member

Politecnico di Torino, DIST, Faculty Member

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Full professor of Political and Economic Geography at DIST, University of Turin, I teach Regional Geography of Development and Territorial Development. I also taught as a visiting lecturer in France (Paris 10), Spain (Girona, Doctoral School of Geography and Planning) and Finland (Oulu, Doctoral School of Geography), and I am currently visiting professor at the UPEC, Paris, Université Lyon 2-Lumière, Université Paris 7- Diderot and Ecole de Haute Etudes en Sciences Sociales. My main research interests are regional development, urban systems, and the role of culture and art in urban development.

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Per una political economy degli hinterland logistici: i regimi territoriali della logistica

Semestrale di studi e ricerche, 1, 2025

For a political economy of logistical hinterlands: the territorial logistics regimes Starting fr... more For a political economy of logistical hinterlands: the territorial logistics regimes
Starting from a theoretical reflection on analytical frameworks available in geography to analyze the phenomenon of logistics, this article advances the notion of territorial logistics regimes (TLR). The authors argue that the debate should go beyond the dichotomy between territorial development and critical studies, which is especially strong in Italian literature, and frame logistics as an urban phenomenon in the form of logistical hinterlands. They proceed to advance a political economy framework, incorporating some recent reflections on the return of State capitalism and on the paradigm of infrastructure-led development. TLRs, understood as coalitions of public and private actors with a common interest in logistics development, are meant as a heuristic to clarify the political and economic power dynamics of the multiple actors revolving around logistical hinterland development. To conclude, some research
avenues are suggested.

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Sviluppo infrastrutturale e regimi territoriali della logistica

Dinamiche Territoriali, 2026

Negli ultimi decenni, le trasformazioni urbane nelle regioni a economia avanzata sono sempre più ... more Negli ultimi decenni, le trasformazioni urbane nelle regioni a economia avanzata sono sempre più connotate dalla crescita del settore logistico. Magazzini di grandi dimensioni, interporti, piattaforme intermodali e corridoi infrastrutturali si sono progressivamente affermati come elementi strutturali dei paesaggi urbani e periurbani, in particolare nelle aree segnate da processi di deindustrializzazione e riconversione produttiva. Tali dinamiche hanno contribuito a ridefinire profondamente l'organizzazione spaziale delle regioni urbane, incidendo sui modelli di consumo di suolo e mettendo allo stesso tempo in crisi le forme tradizionali di governo del territorio. La logistica non può dunque essere interpretata unicamente come un settore economico in espansione o come un insieme di funzioni tecniche a supporto della produzione e del commercio. Essa si configura come elemento centrale dell'urbanizzazione contemporanea, capace di produrre nuovi spazi, gerarchie territoriali e relazioni di potere. La crescente centralità della logistica nei processi di urbanizzazione è stata messa in evidenza da un ampio filone di studi afferenti all'ambito degli studi urbani, che esplora la circolazione delle merci come dimensione costitutiva del capitalismo globale. In questa prospettiva, le cosiddette geografie logistiche non si limitano a descrivere la localizzazione delle infrastrutture o l'organizzazione dei flussi, ma analizzano la produzione di spazi funzionali al controllo, all'ottimizzazione e all'accelerazione della circolazione (Coe, 2020). La logistica appare così come un insieme articolato di infrastrutture materiali, tecnologie digitali, dispositivi normativi e pratiche di governo che rendono possibile la continuità dei flussi globali, spesso a costo di produrre nuove forme di disuguaglianza e vulnerabilità territoriale. Un contributo fondamentale a questo dibattito è DiTe 23/04/26, 10:32 Sviluppo infrastrutturale e regimi territoriali della logistica-DiTe-Dinamiche Territoriali

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Crisis and urban shrinkage from an Italian perspective

The depth, duration, and global reach of the recent economic crisis, the severity of its manifold... more The depth, duration, and global reach of the recent economic crisis, the severity of its manifold impacts on territories and societies, and the various implications of applied austerity measures have questioned existing institutional and decision- making structures, regulatory arrangements, and pre-crisis development models. The serious social, economic, and spatial challenges, faced by cities and regions today, require rethinking of urban policies. This chapter discusses the concept of urban shrinkage from an analytical per- spective, a concept widely addressed in international debates but much less so in Italy, bearing in mind the spatial trends seen in the country.

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Descrivere la governance. Conoscenza geografica e modelli di azione collettiva nelle politiche urbane e territoriali

Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, 2002

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Network Urban Structures in Northern Italy: Elements for a Theoretical Framework

Urban Studies, Jun 1, 1993

The recent urban dynamics of industrialised countries show the rise of a new spatial order, which... more The recent urban dynamics of industrialised countries show the rise of a new spatial order, which simplifies 'vertical' relationships between the cities and complicates, instead, the 'horizontal' inter-urban patterns. Some northern Italian regions, such as Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna, have been characterised historically by polycentric settlement, which constitutes today the spatial texture of functional, economic and social relationships among the urban places, their hinterlands and their regions, according to a new order of spatial organisation. This is a network-based order, whose theoretical framework is not still well founded. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the establishment of a new theoretical paradigm, by integrating several taxonomies recently proposed by Italian researchers in urban and regional sciences. Obviously, the results of these reflections are still weak and open to further contributions, particularly with regard to other regions in north-western Europe.

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"Enjeux culturels métropolitains : entre instrumentalisation et contestation"

by Carlo Salone and FROMENT Pascale

Rivière Dominique (dir.), Les métropoles d’Europe du Sud à l’épreuve des crises du XXIe siècle , 2024

Le rapport entre question culturelle et question urbaine n’est certes pas un objet nouveau dans l... more Le rapport entre question culturelle et question urbaine n’est certes pas
un objet nouveau dans les recherches en sciences sociales. Toutefois,
la culture est devenue depuis trente ans l’un des principaux enjeux des
politiques de développement urbain dans les métropoles mondiales,
souvent sous les atours de la ville créative 1, interrogeant ainsi les modalités
contemporaines de la production de l’espace. Les villes européennes
– notamment leurs centres – présentent de ce point de vue la particularité
d’être largement patrimonialisées selon une conception occidentale
du patrimoine ayant longtemps privilégié la dimension matérielle et
monumentale de celui-ci. Elles sont traversées parallèlement par des
processus de « mise en culture », amorcés dès la décennie 1990 et qui
se sont affirmés au tournant des années 2000, avec l’émergence d’un
nouveau paradigme des politiques des lieux culturels 2.
Cette évolution pose ainsi la question de la valorisation, voire même
du simple entretien, d’un riche patrimoine et de la promotion de l’action
culturelle, dans un contexte économique où les ressources publiques
diminuent drastiquement et où la culture et le patrimoine sont souvent
le premier secteur à être amputé financièrement, et ce à toutes les
échelles.

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Siamo in Italia, con la tuta del Paris". Torino, Barriera: la trap tra esclusione e radicamento

Rivista Geografica Italiana, Aug 31, 2023

Nell’articolo si analizza la scena trap del quartiere di Barriera di Milano (Torino), mettendo in... more Nell’articolo si analizza la scena trap del quartiere di Barriera di Milano (Torino), mettendo in luce gli aspetti socio-spaziali di una produzione musicale molto popolare tra le seconde generazioni degli immigrati, ma relativamente poco presente negli studi urbani sulla Torino contemporanea, anche perché si tratta di una produzione largamentenaffidata a musicisti non professionisti e che circola prevalentemente su piattaforme digitali di streaming. In questo lavoro ci proponiamo di colmare questa lacuna, focalizzandoci sulla natura contemporaneamente ‘situata’ e ‘globale’ di un fenomeno che si nutre di marginalità ed esclusione locale, e, al contempo, di immaginari e codici espressivi mutuati dalla ‘scena’ trap internazionale, e in particolare dal ‘rap delle banlieue’. Per raggiungerequesto scopo, l’analisi si avvale degli strumenti concettuali della teoria dell’embeddedness (radicamento).

The article analyses the trap scene in the Barriera di Milano neighbourhood (Turin), highlighting the socio-spatial aspects of a musical production that is very popular among the second generation of immigrants, but relatively little present in urban studies on contemporary Turin, partly because it is a production largely entrusted to non-professional musicians and it circulates mainly on digital streaming platforms. In this paper we aim to fill this gap, focusing on the simultaneously ‘situated’ and ‘global’ nature of a phenomenon that feeds on local marginality and exclusion, and, at the same time,on imagery and expressive codes borrowed from the international trap ‘scene’, and in particular from the ‘rap of the banlieues’. To achieve this, the analysis makes use of the conceptual tools of embeddedness theory.

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Fixing new municipalism discretely and discreetly. Power, participation, and the possibilities of progressive regimes

by Massimo Bertolin and Carlo Salone

Urban Geography