A remarkable increase in the extension as well as in the complexity of periurban areas has taken place over the past few years. The new issue brought about by this change is twofold: on the one hand, we need to discuss whether periurban areas can be regarded as one new place within a metropolitan system which is in fact made up of many different new places, each one of which bears its own peculiarities and characteristics. On the other hand, it is necessary to identify the new ways of territorial fruition and belonging which develop within such new places.