Search results for " urban sprawl"
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The Centre-Periphery Dialectics in Eastern Sicily Retail System. An Exploratory Research
2020
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.
A NEW DIALETICS CENTRE/PERIPHERY: CONSUMPTION PATTERNS AND PRACTICES IN THE SUBURBAN AREAS
2014
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.
Multitemporal mapping of peri-urban carbon stocks and soil sealing from satellite data.
2017
Abstract Peri-urbanisation is the expansion of compact urban areas towards low-density settlements. This phenomenon directly challenges the agricultural landscape multifunctionality, including its carbon (C) storage capacity. Using satellite data, we mapped peri-urban C stocks in soil and built-up surfaces over three areas from 1993 to 2014 in the Emilia-Romagna region, Italy: a thinly populated area around Piacenza, an intermediate-density area covering the Reggio Emilia-Modena conurbation and a densely anthropized area developing along the coast of Rimini. Satellite-derived maps enabled the quantitative analysis of spatial and temporal features of urban growth and soil sealing, expressed …
Aspects and problems of changing economic utilization of the land in Italy and the corresponding soil consumption
2013
The study moves from the observation that, in the last fifty years (1961-2010) the territory of our country, like those of other countries with advanced economies, has undergone extensive economic processes of change in the use of land, mostly due to a strong reduction of Agricultural Area Use (AAU), whose consistency - on the basis of official statistics (National Statistics Institute) and, in particular, the results of the General Census of Agriculture - is estimated at around 7,8 million hectares, from 20, 7 million hectares in 1961 to 12,9 million in 2010. It should be noted in fact that the intensity of the processes of reduction of the UAA was much greater in the first three decades, …
Metropoli disperse? Interpretazione e azioni sulla dispersione insediativa nei contesti metropolitani europei
2010
L'articolo restituisce gli esiti della ricerca sulla dispersione insediativa nei contesti metropolitani europei. Si tratta di un ambito di indagine complesso che viene affrontato nella sua duplice problematicità: interpretativa e operativa.
ZERO CONSUMO DI SUOLO: PRIME RIFLESSIONI SUL RE-CYCLE
2013
Il contributo tratta del Re-cycle urbano e territoriale come concreta risposta operativa al consumo di suolo e allo sprawl che caratterizza le città italiane, soffermandosi anche sui disegni di legge in merito al momento in discussione in Parlamento.
Consumo di suolo. Un approccio multidisciplinare ad un tema trasversale
2014
Il testo affronta il tema "consumo di suolo" affrontando la sfida dei un confronto 'trasversale', affinchè si provi a individuare soluzioni comuni. Per agevolare il confronto interdisciplinare, il testo è suddiviso in due sezioni: teorie del consumo e territori del consumo. La sezione “territori del consumo” analizza casi-studio concreti con contributi di Teresa Cannarozzo, Giuseppe Giunta e Alessandra Giorgianni, Giuseppe Abbate, Filippo Schilleci, Annalisa Giampino, Giuseppe Guerrera, Tommaso La Mantia. La sezione "teorie del consumo" racchiude contributi a carattere teorico-metodologico. Vi si trovano testi di Giuseppina Carrà, Iuri Peri e Carlo Prato, Claudio Bellia, Giuseppe De Luca, N…