The Centre-Periphery Dialectics in Eastern Sicily Retail System. An Exploratory Research

Th is paper aims at scrutinizing from an historical perspective the deep transformations shaped by retail spaces and new consumption patterns challenging longentrenched dichotomies, such as the centre-periphery one. In particular, the exploratory research explores the territorial reconfi guration of the main Eastern Sicily metropolitan areas, Catania and Messina, from the lens of the retail geography, namely aft er the diff usion of new suburban retail formats which have completely upset deeply-rooted relations between urban core and suburban rings.