Post-Metropolitan Territories- Front Cover -- Post-Metropolitan Territories -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Figures -- Tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Credits -- PART I: Building an atlas of post-metropolitan Italy -- Chapter 1: Post-metropolitan territories as emergent forms of urban space -- Post-metropolis: an inspiring conceptualization -- A research project of national concern: main challenges and expectations -- This book: structure and contents -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Towards an observatory of urban Italy: methodological challenges of the 'Atlas of post-metropolitan territories' -- The Atlante dei territori post-metropolitani -- About the role of the square -- Notes -- References -- PART II: Regional portraits: looking inside the squares -- Chapter 3: Milan beyond the metropolis -- Post-metropolis, regional urbanization, urbanity: exploring the hypothesis of density gradients -- Milan post-metropolis between path-dependency and innovation: exploring the new boundaries of the urban -- A new urban question? -- Post-metropolis and the distance among social practices, spatial organization and institutional frameworks -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Turin metropolitan region: from path-dependency dynamics to current challenges -- Turin square: towards a regionalisation process? -- Socio-economic perspective -- Spatial and functional perspective -- Institutional perspective -- Governance networks and density -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Genesis of a fluid metropolitan space: urban metamorphoses in Venice and Veneto -- Astonishing cities -- The area -- European and Italian cities -- Metropolis in the longue durée: metro-networks and metro-central places -- Modernity and late modernity, and its metropolitan models