<i> L'insostenibilità dello sprawl urbano: un'analisi dell'impatto della mobilità in Italia </i> (di Roberto Camagni, Chiara Travisi) - ABSTRACT: La letteratura “sprawl costs all” ha identificato numerose tipologie di impatti presunti attribuibili al fenomeno dello sprawl urbano, che vanno dagli...

This paper presents a bottom-up methodological framework for estimating some of the key ecosystem services provided by forests biomes worldwide. We consider the provision of wood and non-wood forest products, recreation and passive use, and forests’ contribution to climate regulation in...

C<sc>amagni</sc> R. and C<sc>apello</sc> R. Regional competitiveness and territorial capital: a conceptual approach and empirical evidence from the European Union, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. Today, a selective pattern of regional growth is emerging to differentiate single regions' growth and determine a varied mosaic of...

The article offers some reflections on the important changes that local development has experienced along the last decades. In particular, it emphasizes the strong and increasing presence of uncertainties and the complex character of the actual urban and territorial problems. All this must be...

In this paper, the stylized assumption that one single “optimal” city size exists for all cities—achieved when marginal location costs equal marginal location benefits—is abandoned, as well as the opposite view that each city operates on its own cost and production curves, defining a...

In this paper, the stylised assumption that one single 'optimal' city size exists for all cities - achieved when marginal location costs equal marginal location benefits - is abandoned, as well as the opposite view that each city operates on its own cost and production curves, defining a...

The relationships between urban form, mobility and sustainability have been widely debated in recent times, often with some prejudice and ideological touch, unfortunately. The advantages and disadvantages of the « compact city » vs. the dispersed city or « ville éclatée », have been...

In a globalising economy, territories and not just firms increasingly find themselves in competition with each other. In fact, differently from the case of countries, cities and regions compete, on the international market for goods and production factors, on the basis of an absolute advantage...