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Entes territoriales de escala comarcal en la Administración local española
2021
El mapa autonómico español creado a partir de 1978 se superpuso al esquema territorial que ya existía, formado por provincias y municipios, y así ha tenido que convivir con un mapa anterior obsoleto e ineficiente. La mayoría de los municipios son demasiado pequeños para proveerse de servicios, y esta insuficiencia en la prestación de los mismos no ayuda a frenar el despoblamiento rural. En algunas comunidades autónomas, se han intentado crear entes intermedios entre la provincia y el municipio ¿generalmente, comarcas¿ para tratar de corregir los desequilibrios territoriales. Solo algunas de estas comunidades han llevado finalmente a cabo un proceso de transferencia de competencias a estos n…
The entangled scalarities of football clubs in a competitive metropolitan space: investment, identity and international events
2021
Football clubs located within competitive metropolitan spaces and owned by local municipalities develop their socio-spatiality through strong multiscalarities. Drawing from the sociology of footbal...
The Architecture of a Complex System: The Oradea Metropolitan Area in Romania
2017
This chapter approaches the experience of inter-municipal cooperation in the metropolitan area corresponding to one of Romania’s largest cities. It shows that, in a national context not yet ready for the notion of metropolitan authority, making metropolitan cooperation work and achieving palpable results in terms of economies of scale and scope in service delivery require the setting up of a very complex structure. This complexity poses challenges in terms of decision-making and inter-sectoral coordination, while at the same time creates favourable premises for the political accountability of inter-municipal cooperation arrangements. This complexity has also proven to be the seed for volunt…
Forms and Processes of Settlement Pressure on Natural Systems
2021
The process of urbanisation is considered one of the most significant anthropic alterations of the environmental framework, and the present study attempts to understand the spatial characteristics of urban growth and their impacts on envi- ronmental components in two metropolitan areas of Sicily. Such rapid and unplanned urbanisation in Sicily has increased during the last three decades causing severe pres- sure on various natural resources. In this situation, the level of fragmentation and isolation of natural areas risks becoming worse. The question assumes a particular relevance in those local territorial portions, such as some urban and periurban areas, presenting relevant conditions of…
Governing the Metropolitan Dimension: A Critical Perspective on Institutional Reshaping and Planning Innovation in Italy
2019
As in other European countries, over recent decades the question of met- ropolitan government has captured political and academic attention in Italy too. The debate has been recently fuelled by a national reform introduced to create 14 metropolitan authorities to provide for new government solutions in the territories of the larger urban areas. Based on literature and empirical observation, this paper presents a critical view of that process by examining the following questions: How do metropolitan areas relate to broader Italian urban policy? How does the reform contribute to a reshaping of multi-level governance through national and local initiatives? And how does institutional reorganisa…
Shopping malls and neoliberal trends in Southern European cities: post-metropolitan challenges for urban planning policy
2016
Whilst shopping malls have been explored at length by critical urban studies, there has been little exploration of their role in restructuring the practice of urban and spatial planning. This article uses the shopping mall as an object of study in the light of the neoliberal trends and post-metropolisation in Southern Europe, with the aim of exploring challenges for urban governance and planning practice and with a focus on the role of the ongoing economic crisis. A threefold exploratory framework – the ‘lost-in-time scenario’, the ‘messianic mall model’ and the ‘(im)mature planning explanation’ – is used to make sense of the local versions of shopping mall development in Lisbon (Portugal) …
Instagram como herramienta de aprendizaje musical en educación secundaria y bachillerato
2020
El uso de metodologías renovadoras que incluyan elementos atractivos para el alumnado de la ESO y Bachillerato está relacionado en muchos casos por la utilización de recursos TIC, cuyas aplicaciones en el aula de secundaria y de bachillerato se realizan mediante plataformas creadas con fines didácticos con un uso restringido al ámbito académico. No obstante, estas aplicaciones no figuran entre las que más utilizan los jóvenes de nuestro país por voluntad propia. En este sentido, en el presente artículo se ha implementado una intervención didáctica en dos grupos de 4º curso de ESO y primer curso de bachillerato de un instituto público de la zona metropolitana de la ciudad de Valencia, en las…
Una postmetropoli incompleta: il contesto socio-spaziale di Palermo
2018
Palermo è la città più popolata e importante della Sicilia e la quinta città più popolata d'Italia. Nonostante sia ampiamente conosciuta per la sua marginalità e la presenza di organizzazioni criminali (mafia), Palermo ha giocato a lungo un ruolo chiave nel bacino del Mediterraneo. Uno dei luoghi comuni tradizionali legati a Palermo e alla Sicilia è che il suo popolo ha sviluppato un atteggiamento passivo come conseguenza delle numerose dominazioni straniere dell'isola (a partire dalla sua fondazione, Palermo è stata governata dai Cartaginesi, dai Romani, dagli Arabi, dai Normanni, dai Francesi e dagli Spagnoli). Come per tutti i luoghi comuni, anche questo è in parte vero, ma non può esser…
Pianificazione strategica tra sviluppo locale e policentrismo: alcune evidenze empiriche sul caso siciliano
2009
Strategic planning, local development and policentrism: empirical evidence for Sicily The aim of this paper is the analysis of metropolitan strategic planning in Sicily. Urban areas are becoming important units for territorial cohesion policy and strategic planning represents more and more an important policy instrument. Evidence of a policentric pattern is tested across 30 strategic plans carried out by Sicilian cities in order to derive useful insights for policy implications. Methods and Results This study uses multidimensional scaling and rank-size regressions across Sicilian Functional Urban Areas (FUA) as well as descriptive information drawn from strategic plans in order to identify …
Integrating Experiences: Palermo Mediterranean Gateway City. Identity and Innovation
2019
Metropolitan transformations of the Palermo as a Mediterranean city, guided by envisioning it as a ‘fluid’ gateway city, have been seen as an example for the planning of other such cities in Italy and Europe. The 2025 strategic vision for Palermo was inspired by three key components: (i) the relevance of Palermo as ‘hub territory’ in European level concerns in territorial and infrastructure development policies; (ii) the urban and regional experience with the concept ‘fluid city’ (envisioning the city as a portal and place of interaction and exchanges, not just in terms of goods and people); and (iii) new metropolitan vision produced by new regional and national legislation on metropolitan …