Urban sustainability is a dynamic process that lies on positive interactions among three different urban sub-systems: social, economic and physical, where social well-being coexists with economic development and environmental quality. Nevertheless in the existing cities this utopian scenario...

Cellular Automata are usually considered the most efficient technology to understand the spatial logic of urban dynamics: they are inherently spatial, they are simple and computationally efficient and are able to represent a wide range of pattern and situations. Nevertheless the implementation...

In this paper, we study the cultural geography of the Veneto Region on the basis of a pseudo-diffusion approach to the analysis of the inherent semantic spatial data. We find somewhat surprising results, and, in particular, that Venice, indisputably the Region's cultural hub in terms of...