Italy tackles rebuilding conurbation (4,4,4)
I believe the answer is:
salt lake city
'conurbation' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both locations as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'italy tackles rebuilding' is the wordplay.
'rebuilding' indicates an anagram.
'italy'+'tackles'='italytackles'
'italytackles' is an anagram of 'SALT LAKE CITY'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for salt lake city that I've seen before include "Utah state capital" , "Religious centre" .)