Socio-Economic Development
and Regeneration of Territories
Sara Cattaneo, Camilla Lenzi and Alessandra Zanelli
Introduction
This section of the volume focuses on the first challenge identified in the
Introduction, in particular, on the possibility to relaunch the socio-economic
regeneration and development of territories as to achieve sustainability and circularity goals (and not simply competitiveness ones). From this perspective, then, the
regeneration of the built environment requires the capacity to gauge economic
growth processes and the efficient (and circular) use of scarce local resources, where
scarce resources include not simply economic ones, but also environmental ones.
Accordingly, the analysis of territorial regeneration requires a multidisciplinary
perspective and the integration of different scientific competences including competences in spatial economic analysis, urban studies, evaluation studies, sustainable
technological project design and development.
This section of the volume, thus, proposes a selection of contributions that
covers all these different disciplinary fields. The contributions collected in this
section are organized according to the perspective adopted, namely a comparative
analysis at the aggregated urban scale across cities vs an in-depth analysis of single
cities and areas within cities.
The first group of papers sets the analysis at the aggregated urban scale by
adopting a comparative perspective on European cities. In particular, Camagni et al.
provide a historical outlook on the evolution of economic thought concerning the
development of cities and their performance with particular reference to the
European context. Next, Capello et al. investigate the role of culture, cultural
heritage and creativity as territorial assets and their impact on the socio-economic
development of cities. Lenzi and Perucca complement these perspectives by
examining the impact of urbanization, city size and city development on residents’
well-being in European cities and for different types of cities. Lastly, Fratesi and
Perucca propose an analysis of the role of different territorial endowments, i.e.
territorial capital, for the resilience of European territories to the economic crisis
and Regeneration of Territories
Sara Cattaneo, Camilla Lenzi and Alessandra Zanelli
Introduction
This section of the volume focuses on the first challenge identified in the
Introduction, in particular, on the possibility to relaunch the socio-economic
regeneration and development of territories as to achieve sustainability and circularity goals (and not simply competitiveness ones). From this perspective, then, the
regeneration of the built environment requires the capacity to gauge economic
growth processes and the efficient (and circular) use of scarce local resources, where
scarce resources include not simply economic ones, but also environmental ones.
Accordingly, the analysis of territorial regeneration requires a multidisciplinary
perspective and the integration of different scientific competences including competences in spatial economic analysis, urban studies, evaluation studies, sustainable
technological project design and development.
This section of the volume, thus, proposes a selection of contributions that
covers all these different disciplinary fields. The contributions collected in this
section are organized according to the perspective adopted, namely a comparative
analysis at the aggregated urban scale across cities vs an in-depth analysis of single
cities and areas within cities.
The first group of papers sets the analysis at the aggregated urban scale by
adopting a comparative perspective on European cities. In particular, Camagni et al.
provide a historical outlook on the evolution of economic thought concerning the
development of cities and their performance with particular reference to the
European context. Next, Capello et al. investigate the role of culture, cultural
heritage and creativity as territorial assets and their impact on the socio-economic
development of cities. Lenzi and Perucca complement these perspectives by
examining the impact of urbanization, city size and city development on residents’
well-being in European cities and for different types of cities. Lastly, Fratesi and
Perucca propose an analysis of the role of different territorial endowments, i.e.
territorial capital, for the resilience of European territories to the economic crisis