MÉLANGES DE L'ÉCOLE FRANÇAISE DE ROME. ITALIE ET MÉDITERRANÉE
Abstract
The essay aims to reconstruct the development of eighteenth-century Trieste trying to highlight its spatial dimension, which thus becomes one of its central factors. In fact, in Trieste the construction of the place and the growth of the city were marked by various hypotheses of spatial organization expressed in a non-linear way by the Emperor, the Court, the government officials and the imperial bureaucracy. Hypotheses that collided and interacted with the practices of the other players in that dispute, bearers of their own hypotheses, such as the merchants and the peripheral bureaucracy. Furthermore, beyond the reconstruction of the specific case study, the essay tries to highlight the usefulness of the spatial point of view to address the study of the complexity of social systems, claiming the spatial role of the bodies of women and men. This is when spatial dynamics - for example, those triggered by global warming or those resulting from the appearance of spaces governed by 'other' physics - seem to pose epochal challenges to the history of humanity, the object of study of historians
