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Excavations (Archaeology) --- Shrines --- -Shrines --- -937.7 --- Sacred space --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- History Ancient world Italy Southern Italy --- Abruzzo (Italy) --- -Abruzzo (Italy) --- -Antiquities --- Religious life and customs --- -Abruzzi (Italy) --- Regione Abruzzo (Italy) --- Abruzzes (Italy) --- Antiquities --- 937.7 --- Abruzzi (Italy) --- Excavations (Archaeology) - Italy - Abruzzo - Exhibitions. --- Shrines - Italy - Abruzzo - Exhibitions.

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Exhibitions --- Picenes (Italic people) --- Abruzzo (Italy) --- Marche (Italy) --- Antiquities --- Picéniens --- Abruzzes (Italie) --- Marches (Italie) --- Antiquités --- Picentes (Italic people) --- Ethnology --- Italic peoples --- Marches (Italy) --- Regione Marche (Italy) --- Marchia (Italy) --- Abruzzi (Italy) --- Regione Abruzzo (Italy) --- Abruzzes (Italy)

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Abruzzo is at a tipping point: despite economic, cultural and natural strengths, the region is facing declining economic growth, ageing population and a reduction in outside economic aid. The devastating earthquake that hit the regional capital L’Aquila and its surroundings on 6 April 2009 caused 309 deaths and was a significant economic shock, jeopardizing the long-term growth prospects of an already vulnerable region. To increase its resilience to current and future shocks, Abruzzo must encourage innovation-driven growth, based on knowledge and better use of skills, and redesign the city of L’Aquila through technological upgrade to make it more attractive to outsiders and improve the quality of life of its residents. The report suggests that Abruzzo should focus on endogenous resources to build its long-term development strategy and, at the same time, to increase the external openness of the regional system to attract more entrepreneurs, students, foreigners and external capital. The economic development and quality of societal life in Abruzzo will strongly depend on how private and public actors will make the best use of existing knowledge, strengthening the cultural and economic networks as a major tool for growth; as well as promoting information sharing, transparency, accountability and community engagement to improve decision making. More broadly, the issues raised in the report can help other governments to rethink regional policy, for both regions vulnerable to natural disasters and for those facing long-term decline. As such, eight guiding recommendations for building resilient regions after a disaster are drawn. These guiding recommendations can provide a framework for policy making in other OECD regions.

Urban, Rural and Regional Development --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- Social Welfare & Social Work - General --- Disaster relief. --- Crisis management. --- Abruzzo (Italy) --- Crises --- Management of crises --- Disaster assistance --- Emergency assistance in disasters --- Emergency relief --- Management --- Abruzzi (Italy) --- Regione Abruzzo (Italy) --- Abruzzes (Italy) --- Problem solving --- Conflict management --- Emergency management --- Human services

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An immigrant daughter who returned to her mother's home town, Giovanna Del Negro spent a year doing intensive fieldwork in the homes and public spaces of Sasso. She reveals the diverse reactions that Sassani have to industrialization, changing gender roles, immigration, and the proliferation of the global media. Unlike accounts that focus exclusively on large-scale social forces or universal theories of historical change, this study, set against the backdrop of Italy's mid-1990s corruption scandals, centres on the experiences of ordinary people and the culturally specific ways that modernity reveals itself in a particular place. Del Negro focuses on the passeggiata, and her evocative descriptions of dressing, walking, courting, and socializing in the piazza paint a vivid picture of this event. Sassani pride themselves on their urbane sophistication, only half jokingly referring to their town as "our little Paris." Del Negro shows how different segments of Sassani society (older women and teenage girls, motorbike boys and established professionals) use passeggiata performances to depict themselves as modern, stake their place in the town's collective self-image, and debate the meaning of modernity. Examining everything from Sassani interpretations of tabloid television and soap operas to community games and postcards, Del Negro casts her net wide to illuminate the local culture. Richly sophisticated yet highly accessible, this innovative study speaks to contemporary debates about modernity and globalization.

Folklore --- Plazas --- Walking --- Popular culture --- Places --- Culture populaire --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- City squares --- Piazzas --- Piazze --- Public squares --- Quadrangles (Plazas) --- Quads (Plazas) --- Squares, City --- Squares, Public --- Cities and towns --- Pedestrianism --- Aerobic exercises --- Animal locomotion --- Athletics --- Human locomotion --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Social aspects --- Abruzzo (Italy) --- Abruzzo (Italie) --- Abruzzi (Italy) --- Regione Abruzzo (Italy) --- Abruzzes (Italy) --- Social life and customs. --- Moeurs et coutumes.