The Centre-Periphery Dialectics in Eastern Sicily Retail System. An Exploratory Research

This paper aims at scrutinizing from an historical perspective the deep transformations shaped by retail spaces and new consumption patterns challenging long-entrenched dichotomies, such as the centre-periphery one. In particular, the exploratory research explores the territorial reconfiguration of the main Eastern Sicily metropolitan areas, Catania and Messina, from the lens of the retail geography, namely after the diffusion of new suburban retail formats which have completely upset deeply-rooted relations between urban core and suburban rings. 

Precaution and protection policies of urban ecosystem in the Iblea north eastern coast of Sicily

According to the hypothetical urban scenarios in the future, the urban ecosystem will be the piace where the most part of people live, with a deep negative impact on the world ecosystem. So it is necessary for all the people to get better ways of life in the towns and less and less unbalanced urban space, that to say a clean, efficiency and productive place that satisfies the needs of its inhabitants. A fundamental aim to the restoration of conditions of equity in the city seems to come from the models of development of sustainable city, related to the improvement of the environment and, above all, to a plan of sustainable society. Leaving from the indications of the European urban policies…

Quale nucleare per l’energia? Energia nucleare e problema morale

Questo XIV Rapporto della Società Geografica Italiana affronta il tema dell’energia, che più di altri, non può essere traguardato dal punto di vista di un solo Paese, dato che basterà riandare alla quantità di implicazioni politiche e militari che, nel corso degli ultimi cent’anni almeno, attorno al controllo delle fonti di energia si sono manifestate in tutte le regioni del globo. Il paragrafo, nello specifico, riguarda l'energia nucleare in Italia. This 14th Report of the Italian Geographic Society addresses the issue of energy, which more than others cannot be addressed from the point of view of a single country, given that it will suffice to go back to the quantity of political and mil…

Il commercio quale elemento d'identità culturale della città: il caso di Catania