The thesis in Urban and Regional Geography titled “URBAN AND
TERRITORIAL COMPETITIVENESS IN SUSTAINABILITY. EMILIA-ROMAGNA,
REGION OF EUROPE” is divided into two sections.
Section one is additionally composed by two chapters (chap. 1 and 2)
and deals with theoretical and gnosiological issues.
Section two, of two more chapters (chap. 3 and 4), provides practical
contributions: these issues give explanatory patterns to interpret the
performances of emiliano-romagnoli urban systems.
Chapter one is an introductory chapter. It analyzes globalization that
involves a larger and larger number of cities, rich or poor. It also considers
the so called “digital divide” either as one of the major phenomena of this unhomogeneous
development or as an interesting gnosiological and practical
challenge of geography. Globalization is now involving all the cities, large or
small, but the small ones have higher risks of exclusion: it depends on their
more fragile socio-economic, cultural, and environmental urban structure.
That’s why European Union (chapter two) promotes policies and
endows politics to sustain cities, because urban systems are the basis for the
territorial development. So, European, national and local Institutions are
firmly interested in promoting urban and local interventions and projects.
Section two deals with economic-geography methods, which consists
on collecting indicators and the benchmarking methodology. It also
specifically analyzes the urban systems of Emilia-Romagna. Consequences of
the globalization on the cities are interpreted with a study of their local
resources, intended as potentials for their development. The STeMA approach,
proposed by Professor Maria Prezioso (University of Roma, “Tor Vergata”)
and used by the ESPON (European Spatial Program Observation Network)
project, describes the main “determinants” of the territorial and urban
development. These are easily comparable to one another (similar or better
performing). This approach achieves two goals. On one hand, it is possible to
analyze every urban system in its all main characteristics and to preserve its
historical and cultural factors. On another hand, each city is “knowable” and
“understandable” by all scholars, as it is objectively comparable. So, urban
planners can propose specific “multi-level” and “multi-varied” programs of
governance. These will face globalization by exalting local empowerment.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unibo.it/oai:amsdottorato.cib.unibo.it:1018 |
| Date | 05 May 2008 |
| Creators | Pistocchi, Filippo <1979> |
| Contributors | Gaddoni, Silvia |
| Publisher | Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna |
| Source Sets | Università di Bologna |
| Language | Italian |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Doctoral Thesis, PeerReviewed |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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