Seasonal cities: the Adriatic Coast between continuity and renewal

Abstract

This work is related to the ongoing survey for the PHD program of Architecture, Environment and design, PhD Curriculum in Knowledge and Design of Urban Landscape, at the School of Advanced Studies of the University of Camerino, concerning the transformation of tourist resorts built in the 1960s and 1970s along the Italian coasts of the Marche region. The present article deals with the problems involved in the reorganization of consolidated tourist destinations in consideration of the evolution of the areas dedicated to tourism and the intensification of international mobility as an analytic and theoretical reference for the interpretation of renovation necessities in respect to the observed contemporary dynamics. It further analyzes the recent transformations of the Italian Adriatic coast of the Marche region and finally discusses the role of the urban-tourist areas which are ready to promote reorganization strategies within a new urban geographical framework.