Between suburbanisation and re-urbanisation: Revisiting the urban life cycle in a Mediterranean compact city

VG Morelli, K Rontos, L Salvati - Urban Research & Practice, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

In‐between stability and subtle changes: Urban growth, population structure, and the city life cycle in Rome

L Salvati, M Carlucci - Population, Space and Place, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Urban growth and demographic dynamics in southern Europe: Toward a new statistical approach to regional science

M Ciommi, FM Chelli, M Carlucci, L Salvati - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
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 …

A tale of a shrinking City? Exploring the complex interplay of socio-demographic dynamics in the recent development of Attica, Greece

S Vinci, I Vardopoulos, L Salvati - Cities, 2023 - Elsevier
Mixing peculiar socioeconomic conditions and demographic contexts, urban decline in
Mediterranean Europe was less extensively documented than in other regions of the …

'Hidden Polycentrism'or 'Subtle Dispersion'? Urban growth and long-term sub-centre dynamics in three Mediterranean cities

L Salvati, S De Rosa - Land Use Policy, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract By analyzing long-term (1896–2011) population distribution and residential sub-
centre dynamics in three urban regions of southern Europe (Barcelona, Rome and Athens) …

Metropolitan growth, urban cycles and housing in a Mediterranean country, 1910s–2010s

I Zambon, L Salvati - Cities, 2019 - Elsevier
Long-term urbanization trends reflect important transformations at the metropolitan scale,
being increasingly dependent on place-specific processes of change. By investigating …

Latent exurban development: City expansion along the rural-to-urban gradient in growing and declining regions of southern Europe

L Salvati, VG Morelli, K Rontos, A Sabbi - Urban Geography, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
This paper quantifies the extent of exurban development in Mediterranean Europe. The
assessment was carried out by studying changes in the urban-to-rural population density …

Re-urbanizing the European city: a multivariate analysis of population dynamics during expansion and recession times

L Salvati, P Serra, M Bencardino, M Carlucci - European Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
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 …

Recent demographic trends in the major Italian urban agglomerations: The role of foreigners

S Strozza, F Benassi, R Ferrara, G Gallo - Spatial Demography, 2016 - Springer
Recent works have highlighted how many of the major urban agglomerations in Italy are
undergoing a new phase of demographic growth. This could be called reurbanization phase …

Historical trajectories of currently shrinking Portuguese cities: A typology of urban shrinkage

D Alves, AP Barreira, MH Guimarães, T Panagopoulos - Cities, 2016 - Elsevier
Cities develop according to different patterns, undergoing population growth during some
periods and decline (shrinkage) during others. Theories attempting to understand these …