Extended Urbanisation and Covid-19 in Northern Italian Labour Market Areas : What Density Tells for Municipal Resilience
Extended urbanisation has emerged in the contemporary debate as a notion embracing the globalised nature of urban phenomena. This includes how urbanisation exerts an influence beyond the city’s limits, often in places far beyond dense population centres, through a global network connecting geographically distant areas. With its sprawling urbanisation patterns and a globalised industrialisation and economy, Northern Italy perfectly fits within this definition. The context of extended urbanisation is also at the core of the theoretical framework provided by a range of studies devoted to the spatialities of infectious disease (Connolly, Keil, and Ali 2020; Connolly, Ali, and Keil 2020). A spatial analysis of excess mortality during the first wave of Covid-19 in Northern Italy is proposed at the scale of Labour Market Areas (LMAs – Sistemi Locali del Lavoro), with specific attention to density. More in detail, some topological density indices relating to relational intensity and territorial permeability are correlated with 2020 COVID-related deaths, that is, excess deaths compared to the previous five years. This analysis allows combining a snapshot of the contemporary situation with an overview of inter-area disparities. This can highlight the chronic weaknesses of different territorial development models and inform resilience strategies at the inter-municipal scale
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[2021]
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Authors: | Silvestro, Elia |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Coronavirus | Italien | Italy | Urbanisierung | Urbanization | Epidemie | Epidemic |
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Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (14 p) |
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Series: | FEEM Policy Brief ; No. 2 - 2021 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments May 25, 2021 erstellt |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218284
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