In urban design and planning, one can observe since 20 years the emergence of discourses about new territories. The traditional attitude considers the city as its exclusive object of reference and fosters the urban containment, in order to prevent sprawl. The one relative to new territories refuses to ignore this phenomenon and investigates new analytical and prospective approaches. Despite its...
Economy and territory are interdependent elements of the regional development process. These two components, indissociable from a region’s economic development, are taken into account in recent theories of regional science. Yet, after closer examination, the operational concepts developed in these theories prove to be limited. Although territory is perceived as having multiple aspects,...
