Prato. Che ne è dei distretti industriali?

But, Michele Cerruti

doi:10.3280/tr2017-081025

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“…The city now hosts a Chinatown and a Little Pakistan around the city core, while the residents of Italian origin mainly live in the peripheral neighborhoods (Figure 4). Today, the Prato fabric sector is still an identifying feature, but it is governed by larger companies that are characterized by innovation rather than by the traditional small family structure (Cerruti But, 2017).…”

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“…Finally, the change in the production following the establishment of the “Chinese district” occurred not only in terms of product, with the shift from textiles toward clothing sector, but also in terms of places diffusing production centers across the Florentine plain rather than in the capillary way characterizing the city's mixité (Cerruti But, 2017, 2018). The General Report of the Operational Plan described some of the already mentioned changes following the city's 2030 Agenda, with a forestation strategy and a push to circularity.…”

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Generating modern heritage through changing urban environments and identities: A case study from Prato's (Italy) industrial district, history, and multiculturalism in a polycentric urban setting

Del Bianco

2024

Curator The Museum Journal

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Following economic crises, the evolution of industrial districts (IDs) has frequently caused the crisis within entire urban systems. Being IDs based on individual will and competences, rather than on big industries, their failure can compromise the city's identity. The Italian manufacturing industry consistently relied on this process, and this paper analyzes the case study of Prato, a medieval core city in central Italy that, since the mid‐twentieth century, developed a world‐class textile district based on a polycentric production structure and widespread family entrepreneurialism. During the global economic crisis of the early 2000s, production almost stalled, leaving the city without the core of a collective identity, but with a legacy of empty spaces. Significant foreign migration, in particular from China, filled these spaces, consolidating the clothing sector. The study investigated the city's contemporary identities resulting from the rapid change in people, activities, and spaces.

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confidence: 99%