The essay aims to introduce some relevant questions arising from experiences in designing three cultural districts in the Lombardy Region, in Italy. After a brief summary of the main characteristics of the three projects, developed in different territorial areas, the essay addresses reflections...

This article considers the relationship between centralised, exogenous institutions and the embedded, endogenous institutions of rural governance in Europe through an examination of the evaluation procedures of the European LEADER programme. LEADER is presented in the literature as progressive...

This book describes how the Leader approach has changed in the Italian rural development policies. The first chapter delas with the overall evolution of the Leader programme between Leader II and Leader+. The second chapter focuses on the main results of the Leader approach over the years and...

The present contribution focuses on two issues. The first one concerns the characteristics of industrial districts and the increasing weight of these districts in the Italian system of production. The second issue is about the competitiveness of the Italian industrial districts, if they...

The creative class approach (Florida, 2002b) raised a great debate in regional science. Based on the importance of creativity in a knowledge-based economy, this approach renews the analysis of the economic role of cities by assuming that they must attract and organize a «creative class» in...

El estudio de caso en economía regional que se presenta se comenzó en el mes de octubre del 2005 como una iniciativa conjunta entre el Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad de Costa Rica y la Sede del Atlántico, localizada en Turrialba. El propósito...

Local money systems: an investigation towards its potentialities based on the study of the Banco Bem in Vitória, Brazil - The aim of this paper is to investigate towards a relatively unexplored area: the Local Money Systems (LMS), that are, in short, an agreement amongst the population of a...

Based on the Case of Aleppo?s ?Old City? (in Syria) Rabih BANAT and Améziane FERGUENE This article explores the evolution of Aleppo?s ?old city? in order to reveal its principal factors and consequences. The core of the text analyzes both the endogenous factors that supported the development of...