Starting from the socio-economic events that have given shape to Prato’s urban characteristics, this article outlines a research path through the contemporary attempts to build communities based on diversity, which interact in a context strongly marked by migration. In the last three decades, the city, which grew out of internal (Italian) migration after World War II, has been steadily receiving Chinese migrants, who have transformed its spatial relationships and views of life. Today, the “Macrolotto 0” – where the majority of Chinese families live – is conceived as a heritagespace to be redefined, where Prato’s inhabitants belonging to different generations and of varied backgrounds act as members of associations and networks and experiment shared practices that over the next years should contribute to select stories and experiences to be transformed into new kinds of coexistence.

A partire dalle vicende socioeconomiche che hanno determinato le caratteristiche urbane di Prato, l’articolo traccia una rotta di ricerca nei contemporanei tentativi di costruire comunità sulle diversità che interagiscono in un contesto di forte migrazione. La città, cresciuta con la migrazione interna (italiana) del secondo dopoguerra, negli ultimi tre decenni è stata interessata da un costante flusso migratorio cinese che ne ha trasformato rapporti spaziali e concezioni del vivere. Il “Macrolotto 0”, area in cui vivono la maggior parte delle famiglie cinesi, oggi è sentito come uno spazio patrimoniale da risemantizzare, dove “pratesi” di differenti generazioni e provenienze, organizzati in associazioni e reti, sperimentano pratiche comuni che nei prossimi anni contribuiranno a selezionare storie ed esperienze da trasformare in nuove forme di coesistenza.

Macrolotto 0

Parbuono D
2017

Abstract

Starting from the socio-economic events that have given shape to Prato’s urban characteristics, this article outlines a research path through the contemporary attempts to build communities based on diversity, which interact in a context strongly marked by migration. In the last three decades, the city, which grew out of internal (Italian) migration after World War II, has been steadily receiving Chinese migrants, who have transformed its spatial relationships and views of life. Today, the “Macrolotto 0” – where the majority of Chinese families live – is conceived as a heritagespace to be redefined, where Prato’s inhabitants belonging to different generations and of varied backgrounds act as members of associations and networks and experiment shared practices that over the next years should contribute to select stories and experiences to be transformed into new kinds of coexistence.
2017
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