The book focuses on bioregionalist theories and experiences as an alternative way of
reading and designing local contexts, based on the recovery of the co-evolutionary …

This contribution critically examines the possible interface between territorial cohesion and
social innovation by investigating how two local social innovation initiatives in the Milan …

The ongoing forced reflection on the leading urbanization models' crisis has led to greater
attention to marginal areas. In Italy, the scientific and media debate has focused on inner …

Over the last twenty years, particularly since the publication of the Barca report (2009) and
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development report, a new 'conventional …

This theoretical paper presents a review of existing literature on the Social Investment (SI)
approach to social policy and its underlying and under-explored territorial dimension. The SI …

Os serviços de interesse geral (SIG) contribuem para os objetivos de coesão e
convergência territorial da União Europeia, tendo um papel preponderante nos territórios …

This brief editorial introduces a set of articles dealing with territorial challenges in Europe.
The EU and the member states have put attention to a silent, but growing issue of inequality …

The threat of the mounting climate change crisis requires a collective human response. As a
species we have yet to achieve this level of solidarity and its likelihood is difficult to imagine …

The chapter investigates the origins of the urban/rural relationship concept in post-war town
planning in Italy. It focuses on the profile of Italian planner Giovanni Astengo (1915–1990) …

This contribution investigates the health-planning nexus in Italy by looking at the contents of
the local and metropolitan plans of three Italian cities, Bologna, Florence, and Turin. The …