Mixing peculiar socioeconomic conditions and demographic contexts, urban decline in
Mediterranean Europe was less extensively documented than in other regions of the …

After years following the breakdown of the Great Recession in Europe, crisis-driven urban
shrinkage can be adequately investigated considering changes over time in selected …

Recessions have traditionally influenced population dynamics, leading to increasing social
disparities and a polarised distribution of economic activities. This study identifies …

Metropolitan growth in Europe has resulted in drastic changes of urban forms, socio-spatial
structures and land-use patterns due to sequential processes of urbanization …

The redistribution of population over larger regions progressively further away from the
dense core seems to be the new feature of the (originally compact) Mediterranean cities …

Long-term urbanization trends reflect important transformations at the metropolitan scale,
being increasingly dependent on place-specific processes of change. By investigating …

This study analyses the redistribution (1871–2011) of population along the urban gradient in
Rome, Italy, in the light of the urban life cycle theory, together with an in‐depth analysis of …

After sequential cycles of urbanization and suburbanization, European cities underwent a
(more or less intense) re-urbanization wave. The present study analyzes short-term …

Urban development in southern Europe differs from urbanization patterns observed in other
affluent countries. Urbanization processes in the Mediterranean region reflect …

After a long phase of suburbanization promoting economic decentralization and uneven
expansion of urban rings, re-urbanization has been observed in an increasing number of …