In the last decades of economic globalization we have seen the expansion of urban areas in the wo... more In the last decades of economic globalization we have seen the expansion of urban areas in the world that have lived a period of great changes linked to the decentralization of production and the related creation of many services
The attractiveness of a touristic area depends on the combination of "magnet resources"... more The attractiveness of a touristic area depends on the combination of "magnet resources" and other complementary resources. The authors applied the resource-based view approach to understand how a touristic district can enrich its attractiveness. Empirically, authors focus on the district of Sicilian Baroque. Authors also consider how informatics solutions - provided by NEPTIS Project - may increase the valorisation of magnet resources, such as the landscape and cultural heritage of the Baroque site
The creative activities as a tool to enforce the tourism development and to innovate the territor... more The creative activities as a tool to enforce the tourism development and to innovate the territorial identity. The study case of Sicily-In this paper the authors take into consideration the growing role of creative activities not only in the development of tourism but above all in the innovation of the territorial identity. The article is divided into three parts, in this paragraph the growing role of human action and creative activities is analyzed, through a bibliographic and historical approach. In the second paragraph, the meaning and classification of creative activities are examined on the one hand, and the role played by relational and creative tourism in the processes of exploitation and attraction of a tourist destination, on the other hand. In the third paragraph, through a field research, authors deal with some case studies related to events produced in Sicily that allow to validate the initial hypotheses.
In the post-economic recession phase following the 2007-08 global financial crisis, there is a gr... more In the post-economic recession phase following the 2007-08 global financial crisis, there is a growing divergence between European regions and, within them, between the more dynamic metropolitan regions and a growing number of peripheral areas in decline, so that territorial cohesion returns to being a main objective of European regional planning (EU, 2014). In particular, the last Europe 2020 Strategy places the convergence of lagging areas as the foundations to any strategy and precondition for the Union’s competitiveness (European Commission, 2010).
Il contrasto al fenomeno della criminalità organizzata, oltre che dalle tradizionali forme di azi... more Il contrasto al fenomeno della criminalità organizzata, oltre che dalle tradizionali forme di azione repressiva, passa anche dallo sviluppo di processi culturali e nuove attività economiche, frutto di nuovi investimenti imprenditoriali. Queste modalità di azione creativa appaiono particolarmente significative in quelle aree caratterizzate da condizione di arretratezza, marginalità e perifericità. Attraverso il caso studio del territorio di Agrigento, questo articolo offre degli spunti di riflessione su tali possibili modalità alternative di contrasto e, mediante anche la rappresentazione cartografica, mette a confronto due differenti dimensioni territoriali, cioè la presenza criminale e le potenzialità creative, evidenziando la necessità di ricercare nuove traiettorie di sviluppo per questi territori deboli e puntando con forza sullo sviluppo di processi di innovazione socio-culturale.The fight against the organized crime, in addition to traditional forms of repressive actions, also depends on the development of cultural processes and new economic activities resulting from new business investments. These forms of creative action appear particularly significant in those areas characterized by backwardness, marginality and peripherality. By focusing on the territory of Agrigento, this paper offers points for reflection about these alternative actions of contrast to crime and, also by means of cartographic representation, it compares two different characters of the territory, that is the criminal presence and the creative potential, by emphasising the importance to develop new paths of development strongly based on processes of sociocultural innovation
The author writes about the administrative divisions in Italy and Sicily were inspired by the pol... more The author writes about the administrative divisions in Italy and Sicily were inspired by the political-administrative, judicial, ecclesiastical functions and census from Roman times until the mid-twentieth century. In the mid -Nineties the new industrial revolution and the supremacy of economic liberalism contributed to giving strength to the local dimension of the territorial government and the processes of economic development. On the one hand the increase of the global economic flows and, on the other hand, the international crises have highlighted many limits of the municipal governance of the territory. Thus, the governance of the metropolitan area has replaced municipal governance in importance. The author explains how these recent issues must be integrated with constitutional autonomy in Sicily. An autonomy that has not been used to strengthen economic structures by means of the administrative divisions but, on the contrary, this autonomy has been used to pursue institutiona...
In Sicilia le aree interne hanno rappresentato un punto di riferimento per larghe fasce della pop... more In Sicilia le aree interne hanno rappresentato un punto di riferimento per larghe fasce della popolazione per la loro vitalità economica, sociale e culturale. È emerso il ruolo dell'aristocrazia che ha alimentato una certa vivacità culturale e sociale nei circoli cittadini e, dall'altro lato, è stata un punto di riferimento positivo per la nascente borghesia. In particolare la nascente borghesia vedeva nelle città la possibilità di assurgere a ruoli che nelle aree interne le erano preclusi, non perché già saturi ma, probabilmente, perché non ancora previsti come ad esempio la dirompente economia urbana. Un ruolo certamente positivo può accreditarsi alla classe del clero, i cui membri non solo ricoprivano cariche pubbliche ma possedevano la cultura per interfacciarsi con i rappresentanti delle correnti culturali dell’epoca.
La ricerca è stata condotta congiuntamente dagli autori, tuttavia ai fini dell'attribuzione dei p... more La ricerca è stata condotta congiuntamente dagli autori, tuttavia ai fini dell'attribuzione dei paragrafi L. Scrofani ha redatto i paragrafi 1 e 6, a G. Petino i paragrafi 3, 4 e 5, a C. Novembre il paragrafo 2 Le attività culturali e creative per il rilancio turistico delle aree interne in Sicilia. Il caso studio dell'Ypsigrock Festival Cultural and creative activities for touristic development of the inner areas in Sicily.
Abstract: Transport and communication are the pivots of the socio-economical development and, in ... more Abstract: Transport and communication are the pivots of the socio-economical development and, in particular, of the tourism increase, in such a peripheral area as Sicily. The most recent changes in the transport sector are: a) the creation of integrated trans-national networks, based on specific systems such as the inter-modality transport one and the hub and spoke one; b) the solution of the conflicts between transport development and environmental impact. These changes lead to the constitution of global logistics networks which encourage the competitiveness between regions and local systems. In this paper the authors focus on the measures Sicily has adopted to cope with the effects of these changes and to modify its economy in the context of the EuroMediterranean area. Moreover, they analyse the influence of the EU political choices on Sicilian plans and how Sicilian people responsible for these projects can employ the EU funds. 1. Post industrial economy and post-modern society h...
In the current paper the authors used the STeMA methodology, adopted in PRIN 2015 Programme and a... more In the current paper the authors used the STeMA methodology, adopted in PRIN 2015 Programme and applied to Italian inner areas to check the impact of European and Italian policies to get the objective of territorial cohesion. At first the authors provide a synthesis of scientific and institutional debate on inner areas and inner peripheries. Then they use three indicators, according to the TIA approach, to audit the contributions of important local development factors, such University and three-years graduates. They also studied the policies of cohesion and territorial development in Sicily in planning 2014-2020. Finally, the authors outline some initial reflections on the state of the research carried out and on the necessity for a redesign of the complex relationship between university and territory, as a strategic aspect of the more general national policies for territorial cohesion.
La gestión de la economía influye sobre el gobierno del territorio. La economía global condiciona... more La gestión de la economía influye sobre el gobierno del territorio. La economía global condiciona profundamente la organización en el espacio de las actividades productivas, los flujos comerciales y el desplazamiento de los individuos, y hace necesaria una reconfiguración de los equilibrios institucionales del territorio. Para confirmar su teoría, el autor toma en consideración las transformaciones que están teniendo lugar en las secciones administrativas de Sicilia en relación con los cambios acaecidos en la economía de la región, como caso emblemático de las transformaciones institucionales que se están sucediendo en Italia
Información del artículo Il paesaggio culturale della Sicilia sud-orientale tra processi di degra... more Información del artículo Il paesaggio culturale della Sicilia sud-orientale tra processi di degradazione e di omologazione e tentativi di valorizzazione. ... Il paesaggio culturale della Sicilia sud-orientale tra processi di degradazione e di omologazione e tentativi di valorizzazione. ...
More and more regional development appears as an effect of the role that cities are able to carry... more More and more regional development appears as an effect of the role that cities are able to carry out in the territory. This implies reconsidering not only resources which are available to a city but, above all, its ability to organize urban activities and functions. If these considerations have already found careful appraisal in the most developed regions, by means of the renewal of instruments for the strategic planning of cities, it seems still insufficient the use of these new planning instruments in the less developed regions, although their primary role in the processes of local development. In Southern Italy, for instance, the proliferation of financial support from various sources (E.U., National Government and Regional ones), which imposes plans at different scales (the interregional one, the among cities one and the among suburbs one), and the emergence of actors and stakeholders, also within the presence of public order problems and infrastructural deficiencies, constitut...
In the last decades of economic globalization we have seen the expansion of urban areas in the wo... more In the last decades of economic globalization we have seen the expansion of urban areas in the world that have lived a period of great changes linked to the decentralization of production and the related creation of many services
The attractiveness of a touristic area depends on the combination of "magnet resources"... more The attractiveness of a touristic area depends on the combination of "magnet resources" and other complementary resources. The authors applied the resource-based view approach to understand how a touristic district can enrich its attractiveness. Empirically, authors focus on the district of Sicilian Baroque. Authors also consider how informatics solutions - provided by NEPTIS Project - may increase the valorisation of magnet resources, such as the landscape and cultural heritage of the Baroque site
The creative activities as a tool to enforce the tourism development and to innovate the territor... more The creative activities as a tool to enforce the tourism development and to innovate the territorial identity. The study case of Sicily-In this paper the authors take into consideration the growing role of creative activities not only in the development of tourism but above all in the innovation of the territorial identity. The article is divided into three parts, in this paragraph the growing role of human action and creative activities is analyzed, through a bibliographic and historical approach. In the second paragraph, the meaning and classification of creative activities are examined on the one hand, and the role played by relational and creative tourism in the processes of exploitation and attraction of a tourist destination, on the other hand. In the third paragraph, through a field research, authors deal with some case studies related to events produced in Sicily that allow to validate the initial hypotheses.
In the post-economic recession phase following the 2007-08 global financial crisis, there is a gr... more In the post-economic recession phase following the 2007-08 global financial crisis, there is a growing divergence between European regions and, within them, between the more dynamic metropolitan regions and a growing number of peripheral areas in decline, so that territorial cohesion returns to being a main objective of European regional planning (EU, 2014). In particular, the last Europe 2020 Strategy places the convergence of lagging areas as the foundations to any strategy and precondition for the Union’s competitiveness (European Commission, 2010).
Il contrasto al fenomeno della criminalità organizzata, oltre che dalle tradizionali forme di azi... more Il contrasto al fenomeno della criminalità organizzata, oltre che dalle tradizionali forme di azione repressiva, passa anche dallo sviluppo di processi culturali e nuove attività economiche, frutto di nuovi investimenti imprenditoriali. Queste modalità di azione creativa appaiono particolarmente significative in quelle aree caratterizzate da condizione di arretratezza, marginalità e perifericità. Attraverso il caso studio del territorio di Agrigento, questo articolo offre degli spunti di riflessione su tali possibili modalità alternative di contrasto e, mediante anche la rappresentazione cartografica, mette a confronto due differenti dimensioni territoriali, cioè la presenza criminale e le potenzialità creative, evidenziando la necessità di ricercare nuove traiettorie di sviluppo per questi territori deboli e puntando con forza sullo sviluppo di processi di innovazione socio-culturale.The fight against the organized crime, in addition to traditional forms of repressive actions, also depends on the development of cultural processes and new economic activities resulting from new business investments. These forms of creative action appear particularly significant in those areas characterized by backwardness, marginality and peripherality. By focusing on the territory of Agrigento, this paper offers points for reflection about these alternative actions of contrast to crime and, also by means of cartographic representation, it compares two different characters of the territory, that is the criminal presence and the creative potential, by emphasising the importance to develop new paths of development strongly based on processes of sociocultural innovation
The author writes about the administrative divisions in Italy and Sicily were inspired by the pol... more The author writes about the administrative divisions in Italy and Sicily were inspired by the political-administrative, judicial, ecclesiastical functions and census from Roman times until the mid-twentieth century. In the mid -Nineties the new industrial revolution and the supremacy of economic liberalism contributed to giving strength to the local dimension of the territorial government and the processes of economic development. On the one hand the increase of the global economic flows and, on the other hand, the international crises have highlighted many limits of the municipal governance of the territory. Thus, the governance of the metropolitan area has replaced municipal governance in importance. The author explains how these recent issues must be integrated with constitutional autonomy in Sicily. An autonomy that has not been used to strengthen economic structures by means of the administrative divisions but, on the contrary, this autonomy has been used to pursue institutiona...
In Sicilia le aree interne hanno rappresentato un punto di riferimento per larghe fasce della pop... more In Sicilia le aree interne hanno rappresentato un punto di riferimento per larghe fasce della popolazione per la loro vitalità economica, sociale e culturale. È emerso il ruolo dell'aristocrazia che ha alimentato una certa vivacità culturale e sociale nei circoli cittadini e, dall'altro lato, è stata un punto di riferimento positivo per la nascente borghesia. In particolare la nascente borghesia vedeva nelle città la possibilità di assurgere a ruoli che nelle aree interne le erano preclusi, non perché già saturi ma, probabilmente, perché non ancora previsti come ad esempio la dirompente economia urbana. Un ruolo certamente positivo può accreditarsi alla classe del clero, i cui membri non solo ricoprivano cariche pubbliche ma possedevano la cultura per interfacciarsi con i rappresentanti delle correnti culturali dell’epoca.
La ricerca è stata condotta congiuntamente dagli autori, tuttavia ai fini dell'attribuzione dei p... more La ricerca è stata condotta congiuntamente dagli autori, tuttavia ai fini dell'attribuzione dei paragrafi L. Scrofani ha redatto i paragrafi 1 e 6, a G. Petino i paragrafi 3, 4 e 5, a C. Novembre il paragrafo 2 Le attività culturali e creative per il rilancio turistico delle aree interne in Sicilia. Il caso studio dell'Ypsigrock Festival Cultural and creative activities for touristic development of the inner areas in Sicily.
Abstract: Transport and communication are the pivots of the socio-economical development and, in ... more Abstract: Transport and communication are the pivots of the socio-economical development and, in particular, of the tourism increase, in such a peripheral area as Sicily. The most recent changes in the transport sector are: a) the creation of integrated trans-national networks, based on specific systems such as the inter-modality transport one and the hub and spoke one; b) the solution of the conflicts between transport development and environmental impact. These changes lead to the constitution of global logistics networks which encourage the competitiveness between regions and local systems. In this paper the authors focus on the measures Sicily has adopted to cope with the effects of these changes and to modify its economy in the context of the EuroMediterranean area. Moreover, they analyse the influence of the EU political choices on Sicilian plans and how Sicilian people responsible for these projects can employ the EU funds. 1. Post industrial economy and post-modern society h...
In the current paper the authors used the STeMA methodology, adopted in PRIN 2015 Programme and a... more In the current paper the authors used the STeMA methodology, adopted in PRIN 2015 Programme and applied to Italian inner areas to check the impact of European and Italian policies to get the objective of territorial cohesion. At first the authors provide a synthesis of scientific and institutional debate on inner areas and inner peripheries. Then they use three indicators, according to the TIA approach, to audit the contributions of important local development factors, such University and three-years graduates. They also studied the policies of cohesion and territorial development in Sicily in planning 2014-2020. Finally, the authors outline some initial reflections on the state of the research carried out and on the necessity for a redesign of the complex relationship between university and territory, as a strategic aspect of the more general national policies for territorial cohesion.
La gestión de la economía influye sobre el gobierno del territorio. La economía global condiciona... more La gestión de la economía influye sobre el gobierno del territorio. La economía global condiciona profundamente la organización en el espacio de las actividades productivas, los flujos comerciales y el desplazamiento de los individuos, y hace necesaria una reconfiguración de los equilibrios institucionales del territorio. Para confirmar su teoría, el autor toma en consideración las transformaciones que están teniendo lugar en las secciones administrativas de Sicilia en relación con los cambios acaecidos en la economía de la región, como caso emblemático de las transformaciones institucionales que se están sucediendo en Italia
Información del artículo Il paesaggio culturale della Sicilia sud-orientale tra processi di degra... more Información del artículo Il paesaggio culturale della Sicilia sud-orientale tra processi di degradazione e di omologazione e tentativi di valorizzazione. ... Il paesaggio culturale della Sicilia sud-orientale tra processi di degradazione e di omologazione e tentativi di valorizzazione. ...
More and more regional development appears as an effect of the role that cities are able to carry... more More and more regional development appears as an effect of the role that cities are able to carry out in the territory. This implies reconsidering not only resources which are available to a city but, above all, its ability to organize urban activities and functions. If these considerations have already found careful appraisal in the most developed regions, by means of the renewal of instruments for the strategic planning of cities, it seems still insufficient the use of these new planning instruments in the less developed regions, although their primary role in the processes of local development. In Southern Italy, for instance, the proliferation of financial support from various sources (E.U., National Government and Regional ones), which imposes plans at different scales (the interregional one, the among cities one and the among suburbs one), and the emergence of actors and stakeholders, also within the presence of public order problems and infrastructural deficiencies, constitut...
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