Architecture and Territory. The Resilience of Fragile Italy.

This publication is the outcome of the UNeECC annual conference which was held in Matera, Italy in November 2019, just a couple of months before the country was heavily struck by the Covid-19 pandemic. There were twenty-one papers delivered over three plenary sessions, eleven of which have been selected to be part of this volume of conference proceedings along with an invited paper. The topics discussed in this publication range from urban regeneration to “touristification”, from community involvement to politics. The methods employed by the authors, particularly those which draw from systematic evaluation and monitoring of ECoC projects and events provide a useful platform for discussion for the cities that are going to be designated as European Capitals of Culture in the future.