Questo articolo affronta il tema della dimensione ottima della città, abbandonando le ipotesi di unicità di una dimensione urbana ottima universalmente valida, e che ciascuna città operi in base a funzioni di costo e beneficio proprie. Viene presentato un nuovo modello per la dimensione...

Whether cohesion or efficiency policies should be encouraged is a major problem for policy makers. The paper conducts an ex-ante evaluation of the EU's ICT policies on regional development and regional disparities at NUTS 2 level for all 15 EU member states according to efficiency or cohesion...

The aim of the paper is to present a critical view of theoretical works on city size. We begin with the consideration that, during the 1960s and 1970s, the question of optimal city size tended to be expressed in a misleading way. The real issue is not 'optimal city size' but 'efficient size',...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the endogenous factors allowing regions to compete successfully in a globalized economy. These factors are expected to vary across different groups of regions, due to their different specialization and different endowment of structural connections with the...

In the post-industrial society or knowledge economy, which are the determinants that explain urban growth? The aim of the paper is to give an answer to this question by critically analyzing the contributions that exist in the urban economic literature.

The expert contributors illustrate that sources of regional competitiveness are strongly linked with spatially observable yet increasingly flexible realities, and include building advanced and efficient transport, communications and energy networks, changing urban and rural landscapes, and...

This timely book investigates the challenges that emerge for local economies when faced with the new globalization trends that characterize today’s world economy.