Lettere e Culture Moderne

Finally, it seems to be necessary an English abstract, in order to summarize the
subject of these few pages. It deals with on the possible importance of the study’s
scale in the evaluation of the quality of scientific researches and papers. Author underlines
the difficulties which could face local studies although local size is really
important for geography, indeed, and for social sciences in general, too. But it may
be also the best place where to make the following question: which is the scale of the
topics above mentioned?

Contemporary metropolises are not defined in the international urban context by their territorial dimensions, population's density or high sky- line, but by studying a group of phenomena related to processes and quality of production, cultural patterns and, above all, human relations throughout space. Geographers, sociologists, planners analyse the met- ropolitan "texture" and they try to describe processes which involve millions

The increasing production of multiple and informal representations
generated by large amount of available data and from several new
kind of sources, it is the occasion to argue the relationships between the
construction process of legitimacy and shared memory. It is underlined
the role of geographical knowledge (both from cultural and neurological
point of view) and the importance of geographer in order to distinguish
different importance of individual representations from shared and
common ones

Agoraphilia or claustrophobia?
Starting from the geographic tale of Ferroni along Dante’s journey in Italy, it is possible to underline a lack of representations in this Issue, although the Spatial Turn is the main subject.
Author puts this feature in relation to a waek will of Italian geography in order to define itself, that generates several problems especially concerning university and professional geographic education.

Agoraphilie ou la claustrophobie?
A partir de l’histoire géographique de Ferroni long voyage de Dante en Italie, il est possible de souligner un manque de représentations dans le fichier de la revue, bien que le Spatial Turn est le sujet principal.
Auteur met cette caractéristique par rapport à une waek volonté de la géographie italien afin de définir lui-même, qui génère plusieurs problèmes, notamment concernant formation des géographes professionnels et universitaires.