The first volume its author published, and the first work in Italy on the urban anthropological culture of the south. Among the first of his generation to build an eclectic body of research, Cresci brings to it the analysis of visual perception and of the form of artistic and phenomenal thought acquired at the higher course in industrial design in Venice, and puts it, through the nineteen-seventies, against the direct experience of fieldwork in the ethnic and anthropological setting of the southern regions. Four hundred and twenty-two pages on a city, its buildings and the people who live in them.