Leichenko, R. M. and Solecki, W. D. (2005) Exporting the American dream: the globalization of suburban consumption landscapes, Regional Studies 39 , 241-253. This paper examines how cultural, economic and political aspects of globalization interact with processes of urbanization in less...

Germany, as well as Italy and the rest of Western Europe, after the Second World War experiences Americanization of a consumption and becomes a consumer society. Italian Catering successfully develops and finds its place in this new of consumption democracy. In the meantime, we can observe a...

L’articolo propone un’indagine sulle origini e sulle evoluzioni più recenti della governance ambientale su scala regionale e sull’avvio del processo di cosiddetta «regionalizzazione della tutela dell’ambiente». La tesi sostenuta è che tale processo costituisca al momento la soluzione...

Laffin M. (2004) Is regional centralism inevitable? The case of the Welsh Assembly, Reg. Studies 38, 213-223. Scottish and Welsh devolution raises the question of regional centralism - can strong governments at the sub-nation state or regional level co-exist with strong local governments? The...