ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some of the alterations occurring at these three geographic scales. It also considers how changes are being reflected in or influenced by narratives circulating among media and local memories. As Lionetti and de Ruggieri demonstrates the opportunity has always been available for people to live in the Sassi. Just as the state concentrated its reform energies and Marshall funds on Matera in the 1950s, making Matera the exemplar post-war modern southern city, It focuses on money and opportunity here in the early twenty-first century as a result of Matera's re-entry into the international spotlight. Their main purpose is to provide private and group tours of the Sassi and surroundings. Citywide economic changes described here work hand-in-hand with ideological changes in the Materan mindset. Lack of visibility, lack of interest, lack of discussion, willful forgetting, and focus on the city's modern image combined to delete the Sassi from the general population's civic vision.
