Percorsi di sviluppo e politiche di competitività in Sicilia.

A NEW DIALETICS CENTRE/PERIPHERY: CONSUMPTION PATTERNS AND PRACTICES IN THE SUBURBAN AREAS

This paper deals with the analysis of current changes which have been recently shaping unprecedented urban structures in some suburban areas, due to the emerging of new consumptions spaces. In particular, the work aims at highlighting the effect of urban sprawl on the main Sicilian metropolitan areas, also moulded by the diffusion of the suburban retailing formats, in order to evaluate to what extent these dynamics have been contributing to the configuration of new urban landscapes and unprecedented socio-economic structures, not to mention the support in the process of containing social and economic marginalisation.

Urban regeneration and commerce in Catania

Retail Geography in Italy: Historical Evolution and Future Challenges

This chapter deals with the evolution of retail geography in Italy through a double perspective of analysis. On the one hand, the work deals with the transformation of retailscapes in the country, ranging from the first department stores to the evolution of retail in central and suburban areas. On the other hand, the chapter scrutinises the emergence of retail geography in Italy as a sub-discipline, strictly linked to the urban and economic approach, in order to deeply evaluate the geographical contribution in interpreting as well as analysing the transformation of retail and consumption places, which, in recent decades, have been completely reshaping forms and functions of Italian urban an…

Le scelte localizzative dei grandi spazi commerciali: effetti economici, sociali ed ambientali.

I processi di suburbanizzazione commerciale in atto ormai da decenni in diversi scenari urbani non soltanto hanno ridisegnato i modelli e i luoghi di consumo, scompaginando la dialettica tradizionale centro/periferia, ma hanno anche plasmato un’inedita configurazione degli spazi urbani e periurbani, in particolare dei loro modelli di organizzazione e dei processi di produzione e consumo di risorse. La coscienza sempre più diffusa dell’importanza della sostenibilità, declinata in ambito economico, sociale e ambientale, rende necessaria una riflessione sugli effetti prodotti dai grandi luoghi del commercio sul sistema ecologico e antropico in cui insistono. Al di là di una vasta gamma di tipo…