Socialità e mobilità, driver della diffusione del contagio nella Toscana a due velocità

Set up from a dual perspective aimed at placing Tuscany in a broader territorial framework and illustrating the varied mosaic of situations within the region, the paper seeks to interpret, through a spatio-temporal analysis, the socio-territorial factors that may have favoured the contagion and influenced the intensity and speed of its propagation, with particular reference to spatial interconnection and social relationality. Attention is focused on the fragilities due to the high commuting connectivity, to the organisation of production systems and services, to the promiscuity linked to social events; the factors hindering the spread of the virus are also investigated. Tuscany is thus interpreted as a multi-polar region with a high cultural, industrial and commercial attraction characterised, above all in the central and north-western areas, by a high interconnection and rapidity of the flows of people and goods entailing, particularly in risk situations such as the Covid-19 pandemic, forms of selective spatial vulnerability.