In the context of the discourse around shrinking cities, the aim of the paper was to try and better understand and differentiate the various types and causes of urban housing vacancy and to ask whether policy responses including planning policies appropriately reflect this variety. The paper...

Social cohesion always appears more frequently as a policy goal of the European strategy that promotes the integration of spatial, economic, and social dimensions of growth. This comprehensive approach also has to deal with the social consequences of demographic change, tackle urban poverty, and...

This paper argues that the role of key individuals in the governance of urban regeneration is often overlooked in empirical studies and theorizations, despite it often being an important causal factor in urban change. The paper provides a “starter” conceptualization of this phenomenon...

Il saggio propone una rivisitazione del concetto di governance al fine di analizzare la sua validità come modello per l’analisi dei sistemi locali di sviluppo. La riflessione inizia evidenziando le continuità che esso dimostra di avere con sistemi pregressi di regolazione locale (modello...

Il paper analizza gli effetti del de-popolamento urbano. La letteratura degli anni ottanta aveva già chiarito alcuni punti rispetto al radicamento storico del decremento demografico nel pattern locale di riproduzione familiare. La deindustrializzazione precoce dovuta alla fine delle...

In debates related to energy poverty, the link to questions of residential segregation remains somewhat peripheral. Because, usually, only energy-poor households are at the focus and residential mobility is not addressed, the interdependencies between households’ energy costs and the...