Costruire, trasformare, controllare. Legal transfer e gestione dello spazio nell'Ottocento

[Autom. eng. transl.] The essays collected here - which draw from the history of law and institutions, art and urban planning, geography and cartography, economic and social history - propose a reflection on center-periphery relations, on the hybridization of cultures, on the adaptation of “external” models in the definition, construction and control of urban, rural and state space. The subject of this interdisciplinary investigation are mainly the city of Milan, the Lombardy region and the area of the Canton Ticino between the end of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth century: a period marked by important political-legal transitions, during which on the one hand the efforts of the state authorities were aimed at applying new legislative references for spatial and territorial organization, on the other hand phenomena of resistance and opposition to them emerged.