, its analysis demand clearly an integration of spatial /landscape data with the socio-economic data, which has been … recently widely recognised. The question is how this integration is possible, and how can it best be achieved to understand the … institutional dimensions. Moreover the institutional frame, given the integration of Portugal in the European Union since the middle …

literature on integration/agglomeration and that on city size and formation, we show that: i) devolution results in over … economic (i.e. intensity of trade) integration, the higher is the magnitude of the inefficiency. From a theoretical point of …