Signposts : an introduction / Robert Lumley and John Foot -- Through the looking-glass : research on the Italian city in historical perspective / Sergio Pace -- The two waves : Milan as a city of immigration, 1955-1995 / Gianfranco Petrillo -- Revisiting the Coree : self-construction, memory and immigration on the Milanese periphery, 1950-2000 / John Foot -- Immigration, nationalism and exclusionary understandings of place in Turin / Laura Maritano -- Architectural utopias and La nuova dimensione : Turin in the 1960s / Mary Louise Lobsinger -- Architecture and modernity in post-war Milan / Halldora Arnardottir -- Turin after arte povera : a new city of art? / Robert Lumley -- Contested claims to public space : the re-imaging of Naples and the case of Piazza Plebiscito / Nicholas Dines -- Calvino in Turin : writer and editor / Claudia Nocentini -- Crime and the city in the detective fiction of Giorgio Scerbanenco / Giuliana Pieri -- Imaginary cities : space and identity in Italian literature of immigration / Sandra Ponzanesi -- Scenarios of modernity : youth culture in 1950s Milan / Enrica Capussotti -- Palermo in the films of Cipri and Maresco / Abele Longo -- Adriati-citta : notes on a post-industrialist landscape / Pippo Ciorra.