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dc.contributor.authorRicatti, Francesco
dc.contributor.authorBartoloni, Paolo
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-29T10:24:33Z
dc.date.available2016-02-29T10:24:33Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationBartoloni, Paolo and Ricatti, Francesco (2015) 'Italian Transcultural Atmospheres. A Comparison of the Italian Forum in Sydney and Piazza Vittorio in Rome'. Italian Studies, 70 (4):537-553.en_IE
dc.identifier.issn0075-1634
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10379/5582
dc.descriptionJournal articleen_IE
dc.description.abstractThis article is part of a larger study of Italian commercial and urban spaces developed around the world over the past fifteen years. It focuses in particular on the Italian Forum, a residential and commercial development built in Sydney in the late 1990s. Designed as an attempt to replicate a typical Italian piazza, the Italian Forum also aimed at celebrating the Italian contribution to Australian Multiculturalism, and at creating an urban space for the expression of Italian and Italian Australian cultures. However, the Italian Forum has largely failed as an urban, commercial, and multicultural space. By comparing it to an actual Italian piazza, Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II in Rome, the article argues for the need to reconceptualize transcultural urban places by addressing two fundamental questions: what does turn an urban space into a meaningful place? And can urban atmospheres be replicated in the context of purposely driven commercial developments?en_IE
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dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_IE
dc.relation.ispartofItalian Studiesen
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Ireland
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/
dc.subjectItaly, Australia, transcultural, multiculturalism, space and place, shopping mallsen_IE
dc.subjectItalyen_IE
dc.subjectAustraliaen_IE
dc.subjectTransculturalen_IE
dc.subjectMulticulturalismen_IE
dc.subjectSpace and placeen_IE
dc.subjectShopping mallsen_IE
dc.titleItalian Transcultural Atmospheres. A Comparison of the Italian Forum in Sydney and Piazza Vittorio in Romeen_IE
dc.typeArticleen_IE
dc.date.updated2016-02-23T12:31:11Z
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/00751634.2015.1120950
dc.local.publishedsourcehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2015.1120950en_IE
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dc.local.contactPaolo Bartoloni, Italian, Room 311, Arts Millennium Building, Nui Galway. 2392 Email: paolo.bartoloni@nuigalway.ie
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