ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a territory performing extremely unusual features: the province of Olbia-Tempio, an area situated in the north of Sardinia which, in recent decades, compared with the other urban contexts of the island, has taken on highly dynamic traits. Part of the territory, where no urban reality was present until the 1960s, today shows the features of an authentic post-metropolitan reality. In 2011 the Province of Olbia-Tempio was the Sardinian province with the largest number of homes not occupied by residents, against an average for the other Sardinian provinces of around 20". Olbia, in particular, which was a small nucleus of little more than 3,000 inhabitants ravaged by malaria at the end of the nineteenth century, and which had only begun to emerge in the first half of the twentieth century as a small trading town, began to attract large flows of population and Italian and foreign capital.
