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AUTHOR
Vinci Ignazio
Implementing the environmental dimension of the EU’s urban agenda 2014-2020. The strategy for sustainable development in the medium-sized cities of Western Sicily
This work illustrates the planning experience carried out Sustainable Urban Development (SSUD), whose general objectives are strengthening territorial cohesion and to increase accessibility to the local resources. The SSUD action plan, being funded with around 70 millions euro, through which such objectives can be better achieved and reciprocally integrated. After a brief description of the territory targeted by the concept within the broader debate on sustainable mobility. In section 3, a series of evidences are provided to identify the demand and potential for the development the fourth section, after describing the expceted results is suggested why in this area a greenway is the better s…
Urban change and regional development at the margins of Europe: an introduction
Since the beginning of the nineties the urban dimension has taken a growing relevance within the EU’s regional policy. The implementation of community initiatives or other areabased projects under the structural funds has meant for several cities a tangible opportunity to start urban renewal, introduce innovative planning instruments and implement new governance relations. In the so called “less developed” regions, this process has also been accompanied by significant financial resources, giving local governments and municipalities the chance to start large infrastructure projects of metropolitan or even regional relevance. Development processes in regions and urban areas, however, have fol…