Memory and place in the 20th-century Italian city: Messina, Naples, Rome, Milan, Venice

Building on the work of the collective project 'City and Identity: Milan and Turin in the Industrial Era', directed by Robert Lumley and based at the UCL Centre for Italian Studies; the question is asked, 'How do memory and place interact in Italian cities?' This project aims to explore this though five separate Italian city studies (Messina, Naples, Rome, Milan and Venice-Marghera) which will serve as a basis for comparisons and wider methodological and theoretical inferences. Each study will explore specific local histories and will also contribute to the elaboration of a common theory and methodology. The findings will be disseminated though a range of papers, a website, video essays, a monograph and a project archive.