… Whereas in Italy a North-South duality is apparent, Spanish IDs are distributed along axes,
and the greatest concentration is located on the east coast, where Valencia and Catalonia …

… In Section 2, we describe in a brief way the main shortcomings of the traditional view on
industrial districts. In doing so, we bring together and build on insights from a range of disciplines…

… have begun to see “industrial districts” as a possible answer to the … industrial triangle and
the depression of the South, there has been shown to be a third Italy in which industrial districts …

The theory of the industrial districts—spatial clusters of mutually supporting, mostly small and
medium‐sized, flexibly specialized enterprises, held together by virtue of their deep local …

… In this paper we do not analyse the recent industrialization process in the south of Italy,
which is mainly based on the development of some areas of old craft traditions and on the …

The Italian debate on industrial districts suggests that local development can be based on
small and medium-sized firms, provided they work in teams and are embedded in a local …

The relationship between Industrial Districts (henceforth IDs) and the city seemed to be
antithetical at the beginning of the 1970s, when the latter was the main locus of industry− Fordist …

… out in two footwear clusters located in Italy, the “land of industrial districts,” and two clusters
of … industrial district, as it is defined in the literature, and the case studies in Mexico and Italy. …

… In Section 2, we describe in a brief way the main shortcomings of the traditional view on
industrial districts. In doing so, we bring together and build on insights from a range of disciplines…

… of tourist and industrial vocations of territorial clusters of cities as it is shown in an experimental
application of the above-mentioned model to the LTS of Salento, in Puglia (South Italy), …