Made in Sud. L'industria tra intervento pubblico e territorio dilapidato

The policies supporting southern Italy, implemented since the Second World War o the end of the twentieth century, have contributed to reducing the gap whit the North of the country but these regions are still experiencing difficulties that are unresolved from a political and socio-economic point of view. This condition is reflected in the territorial forms, whose crisis today demands, from an urban planning point of view, pertinent reading and solution models of a strategic type and a regenerative approach. The framework that is traced with regard to public intervention in the South is centered on the role of three actors: big industry and the State, with their reciprocal intermingling, and the southern territorial milieu. From the territorial point of view, a critical relationship between the large industrial areas and the territories of medium and small towns around which the large production 'plates' were implanted, in particular, the Industrial Development Areas, was determined, among other outcomes. Through the case study of the province of Caserta, we suggest the need for an adequate analytical framework and a replicable regenerative approach where rural identities, abandonment, the historical palimpsest and a still persistent industrial vocation vie with each other, affecting the territory's future prospects