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Sack of Palermo, the Glossary

The sack of Palermo is the popular term for the construction boom from the 1950s through the mid-1980s in Palermo, Italy, that led to the destruction of the city's green belt and historic villas to make way for characterless and shoddily-constructed apartment blocks.^[1]

Alexander Stille

Alexander Stille (born 1 January 1957 in New York City) is an American author and journalist.

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Allied invasion of Sicily

The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as the Battle of Sicily and Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II in which the Allied forces invaded the island of Sicily in July 1943 and took it from the Axis powers (Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany).

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Angelo La Barbera

Angelo La Barbera (July 3, 1924 – October 28, 1975) was a powerful member of the Sicilian Mafia.

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Antimafia Commission

The Antimafia Commission (Commissione parlamentare antimafia) is a bicameral commission of the Italian Parliament, composed of members from the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic. Sack of Palermo and antimafia Commission are History of the Sicilian Mafia.

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Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts.

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Ernesto Basile

Ernesto Basile (31 January 1857 – 26 August 1932, in Palermo) was an Italian architect and an exponent of modernisme and Liberty style, the Italian variant of Art Nouveau.

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Francesco Vassallo

Francesco Vassallo a.k.a. don Ciccolo, don Frankie or King Concrete (born c. 1910) was an Italian entrepreneur that associated with Mafia in the 1950s.

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Green belt

A green belt is a policy, and land-use zone designation used in land-use planning to retain areas of largely undeveloped, wild, or agricultural land surrounding or neighboring urban areas.

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Illegal construction

Illegal construction (also known as illegal building or illegal housing) is construction work (or the result of such) without a valid construction permit.

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Intensive farming

Intensive agriculture, also known as intensive farming (as opposed to extensive farming), conventional, or industrial agriculture, is a type of agriculture, both of crop plants and of animals, with higher levels of input and output per unit of agricultural land area.

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Landlord

A landlord is the owner of a house, apartment, condominium, land, or real estate which is rented or leased to an individual or business, who is called a tenant (also a lessee or renter).

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List of mayors of Palermo

The mayor of Palermo is an elected politician who, along with the Palermo's city council, is accountable for the strategic government of Palermo in Sicily, Italy.

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Mechanization

Mechanization (or mechanisation) is the process of changing from working largely or exclusively by hand or with animals to doing that work with machinery.

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Palermo

Palermo (Palermu, locally also Paliemmu or Palèimmu) is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province.

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Palermo Airport

Falcone Borsellino Airport (Aeroporto Falcone Borsellino) or simply Palermo Airport, formerly Punta Raisi Airport, is an international airport located at Cinisi, west-northwest of Palermo, the capital city of the Italian island of Sicily.

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Real estate

Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as growing crops (e.g. timber), minerals or water, and wild animals; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more generally) buildings or housing in general.

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Rural flight

Rural flight (also known as rural-to-urban migration, rural depopulation, or rural exodus) is the migratory pattern of people from rural areas into urban areas.

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Salvatore Lima

Salvatore Achille Ettore Lima (23 January 1928 – 12 March 1992), often referred to as Salvo Lima, was an Italian politician from Sicily who was associated with, and murdered by, the Sicilian Mafia.

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Sicilian Mafia

The Sicilian Mafia or Cosa Nostra ("our thing"), also referred to as simply Mafia, is a criminal society originating on the island of Sicily and dates back to the mid-19th century.

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Speculation

In finance, speculation is the purchase of an asset (a commodity, goods, or real estate) with the hope that it will become more valuable shortly.

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Tommaso Buscetta

Tommaso Buscetta (13 July 1928 – 2 April 2000) was a high ranking Italian mobster and a member of the Sicilian Mafia.

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Urban planning

Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning in specific contexts, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks, and their accessibility.

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Urbanization

Urbanization (or urbanisation in British English) is the population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change.

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Vito Ciancimino

Vito Alfio Ciancimino (2 April 1924 – 19 November 2002) was an Italian politician close to the Mafia leadership who became known for enriching himself and his associates by corruptly granting planning permission.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Palermo

Also known as The Sack Of Palermo.