Gottmann and Mediterranean Iconographies

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The author teaches Political and Economic Geography at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Messina, Italy - where he directed the Department of Economics, Statistics and Geopolitical Analysis - and is currently vice-president of the Association of Italian Geographers (AGel) and director of Geotema Review, Patron Edit. Bologna; he has directed the Nuovi Quaderni di Geografia Umana for Sicily and Calabria. He is a member of the Society of Geographic Studies, of the Italian Geographic Society and of the International Affairs Institute of Le Monde Diplomatique. Dr Campione has taught Urban Geography at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Reggio Calabria, at the University La Sapienza in Rome and the University IULM in Milan, and Political Geography at the University of Palermo, and is the author of several publications on regional and urban topics, on Sicily, the Mediterranean, and on subjects such as the territorial control of functions, or the visual compositions of places. He was a member of the Sicilian Parliament during the 1980s and 1990s, and President of Sicily after the murder of Falcone and Borsellino by the Mafia.