History and analysis of an exclusion: via di Prè as a frontier in the historical centre of Genoa

One can speak undoubtedly about the area of Via di Prè, in Genoa, as a “periphery in the center”: for centuries beating heart of the commercial and cultural traffics of the city, in the last decades this area has undergone a serious process of ostracism and devaluation by its own citizenship. The causes of this progressive abandonment can be found in the widespread criminality on its territory, in the negative narratives proposed about it by local newspapers, in its patent exclusion from the redevelopment carried out between 1992 and 2004 in favor of the Genoese Historical Center and former port area. Thus, the profile of a territory placed at the corner, depressed, frustrated in its potential, is outlined: a minority that desires in a way directly proportional to its shortcomings and which asks to be questioned about its own future.