Territory and its Identity: the Case of Bari (Italy)

Abstract

This paper aims at a new interpretation of the term “territory”. The interpretation consists of a new use of a “territorial approach” which heightens a territory’s identity. Not only does this approach study the identity of a territory but it puts in evidence its physical, environmental, cultural, historical and economic peculiarities. However, its final purpose is to point out policies of preservation of a territory to use such a methodology its necessary first of all to define the concept of identity.