The city of Lecce between nostalgia and topophilia. The pre- and post-pandemic views of college students

In Italy, lockdown restrictions due to Covid-19 also involved teaching activities and, as a consequence, the relationship between students (especially those coming from outside and commuters) and university cities. The research was ran within three geography courses at the University of Salento (a. a. 2021/2022, first semester): students were asked to answer a survey and, in a second phase, they were invited to take part in an in-depth guided discussion. The aim is to stimulate a preliminary insight on the effects of the closing of Lecce urban campus during the first lockdown (9th March-18th May 2020). In particular, we focus on how it has modified the intensity of sensible, documentary and conceptual message fluxes that the "Capital of Apulian Baroque" is able to transmit to students.

Mobility, organisation of space and perception of places in Sardinia among old plagues and new pandemics

The Covid-19 pandemic, like the plague or other contagious diseases in the past, had a considerable impact on communities and territorial assets. This work aims to propose a reflection on the consequences that these health emergencies had on human mobility, the space organization, and the perception of places in Sardinia and, especially, in its inland areas. These areas, which may have remained immune from contagion during the plague on 1652-1657, welcomed people fleeing from the cities into their villages and country churches, while today they aspire to attract new inhabitants and high-quality tourists. © 2021 Author(s).

Habitat, society and "post virus" economy. Possible scenarios

Starting from the necessary rethinking of the hyper-technological, hyper-fast and hyper-connected global system in which we have been so far immersed and which has contributed to trigger the current pandemic, the present work aims at starting some preliminary reflections on possible scenarios aimed at overcoming the current critical issues and at safeguarding the human group from similar future risks. More precisely, the research will try to highlight not only how the necessary social distancing and forced isolation can strengthen the hypothesis of the shut- in economy and the remodeling of urban spaces, but also how the destruction of habitats and the emissions generated by a linear system of productivity, aimed more at exploitation than at the protection of renewable resources, make urgent both the launch of an economy rethought in a circular sense, and the strengthening of "zero km" production.