The awareness that the competition with emerging Countries can only takeplace in terms of technology and innovation, and that cities are the fittest placeto meet the challenges of the new millennium, certify that in «smart» Europeancities innovative sectors, such as biotechnology, sustainable...

The subject of this paper is: how large metropolitan areas in the South ofItaly can become smart? They are suffering an endemic crisis in terms of socialcohesion, sustainability of processes, quality and facilities. Nonetheless, theyhave a large and often devalued cultural and social capital,...

Economic effects of transport infrastructure are often expressed in terms of productivityand employment differentials, whereas comparatively less attention has been devoted to impactson firm location and birth. The aim of this paper is to contribute to existing literatureby studying the...

We analyse the impact of internal migration in China on natives' labour market outcomes. We find evidence of a large positive correlation of the city share of migrants with natives' wages. Using different sets of control variables and instruments suggests that the effect is causal. The large...

This short essay, built on a foundation of more than a decade of fieldwork in the hydrocarbon-rich societies of the Arabian peninsula, distills a set of overarching threads woven through much of that time and work. Those threads include a discussion of the social heterogeneity of the Gulf State...

The article discusses densification of fully urbanised territories, which causes deterioration of living conditions for tenants of neighbouring houses (third parties) due to the negative impact of construction on local environment. Specifically, detection of fundamental right violations during...

Urban renewal programs usually argue that planning and development can help poor and segregated urban areas to redevelop due to their positive effects. The aim of this work is first to understand how these externalities are generated and then to propose a method of measure with a hedonic land...

We analyse the impact of internal migration in China on natives’ labour market outcomes. We find evidence of a large positive correlation of the city share of migrants with natives’ wages. Using different sets of control variables and instruments suggests that the effect is causal. The large...

Amid concerns of how U.S. cities "sprawl", it is useful to look at the cities of other developed nations, in particular Western Europe which has attained U.S. - type prosperity, but which is reputed to have cities Americans should look to as a model. We examine recent data which suggest that...

Urban re-development projects may generate various positive as well as negative spatial externalities to the existing population in a given area. This study aims to assess the order of magnitude of the expected net benefits for incumbent residents from a large scale project in the Southern part...