Infrastructure‐Related Urban Sprawl: Mega‐Events and Hybrid Peri‐Urban Landscapes in Southern Europe

Λεοντιδου, Λιλα; Afouxenidis, Alex; Kourliouros, Elias; Marmaras, Emmanuel V.

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“…The selection of variables and data sources, the procedure for the construction of indicators, and the identification of the thematic dimensions adequate to represent the (changing) socio‐economic and territorial conditions of the investigated region have been set up according to the indications provided in Leontidou et al . (). Although the indicators selected in the present study cannot be considered as an exhaustive description of the local contexts in central Italy, they provide a broad qualification of the economic structure, social traits, and environmental characteristics observed in the investigated area.…”

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Towards a Polycentric Region? The Socio‐economic Trajectory of Rome, an ‘Eternally Mediterranean’ City

Salvati

2013

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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The present study explores the long‐term changes (1971–2001) in the socio‐economic structure of a monocentric Mediterranean urban region (Rome's province, central Italy) undergoing moderately polycentric development. Descriptive and correlation statistics and a multiway factor analysis (MFA) have been used to analyse the spatio‐temporal evolution of 24 socio‐economic indicators made available at the urban district/municipal scale. The socio‐economic disparities observed along the urban‐rural gradient in 1971 decreased only moderately in 2001. The MFA clearly separates urban districts from suburban municipalities in both 1971 and 2001. Results indicate that exurban development has impacted only partly Rome's urban form which remained mainly compact and dense with persisting socio‐economic gaps between urban and suburban areas. The paper discusses the partial failure of Rome's master plan to promote a really polycentric development and a new, more sustainable, urban form.

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“…Leontidou et al . ; Maloutas ; Arapoglou & Sayas ). The Mediterranean region has a millennary history, peculiar and unique environmental characteristics, a wealth of the most bizarre combinations of landscapes and original urban forms shaped by a complex interconnection of social, economic, political and institutional factors (King et al .…”

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Towards a Polycentric Region? The Socio‐economic Trajectory of Rome, an ‘Eternally Mediterranean’ City

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2013

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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“…The predominance of retail and the service sector, the commission of new architectural 'icons' by banks, department stores and global chain stores in expensive neighbourhoods accounted for an intensive privatization and commodification of the Athenian urban space (Petropoulou, 2008). The transformation of the Athenian landscape was accompanied by the establishment of practices of 'surveillance-induced social control, which in turn became absorbed into the citizens' stock of social values' (Petropoulou, 2010: 218; see also Leontidou et al, 2008). The new spaces that emerged out of this process and became the symbols of a new set of power relations (Stavrides, 2008) are today the remnants of the utopian vision for glamour and enjoyment that followed Athens' successful Olympic bid in 2004 (Afouxenidis, 2006;Petropoulou, 2010).…”

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The spatialization of democratic politics: Insights from Indignant Squares

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Karaliotas

2016

European Urban and Regional Studies

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This article departs from accounts that either deify Indignant Squares as a model for 21st century political praxis or demonize them as apolitical/post-political crowd gatherings. By performing a closer ethnographic reading of the Indignants’ protests at Athens’ Syntagma Square, we depict the Indignant Squares as a consensual and deeply spatialized staging of dissent, which nevertheless harbours in its underbelly internally conflicting and often radically opposing political imaginaries. A closer reading of the organization, practice and discourses that evolved at Syntagma Square unearths the existence of not one, but two distinct Indignant Squares, both at Syntagma, each with its own topography (upper and lower square), and its own discursive and material practices. Although both squares staged dissent, they nevertheless generated different (opposing, even) political imaginaries. The ‘upper square’ often divulged nationalistic or xenophobic discourses; the ‘lower square’ centred around more organized efforts to stage inclusive politics of solidarity. The paper suggests that, rather than focusing on the homogenizing terms Indignants’ movement/ Indignant Squares we should instead be trying to develop a more nuanced theoretical understanding and a more finely grained empirical analysis of the discursive and spatial choreographies of these events. This, we argue, would allow us to go beyond either celebrating them as new political imaginaries, or condemning them as expressions of a post-political era. Talking of ‘Indignant Squares’ in the plural helps one explore in more grounded ways both the limitations and the possibilities that these events offer for opening up (or closing down) democratic politics.

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“…Moreover, the Mediterranean city comes through as a ‘metropolis still in transition’ as described by Leontidou et al . () who, after reading spontaneity à la Gramsci in the urban diffusion characterizing pre‐Olympic Athens (1990), further develop the theme of urban sprawl outside the boundaries of the compact city in a jumble of motivations and social tensions perhaps unique in Europe — an accumulation that distinguishes, in their view, the Mediterranean city and places from both the Anglo‐Saxon and North European agglomerations and also those of the South, still suffering through a lack of development that never seems to come to a head.…”

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Unveiling Urban Sprawl in the Mediterranean Region: Towards a Latent Urban Transformation?

Salvati

Morelli

2014

Int J Urban Regional Res

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The relationship between form and function in European Mediterranean cities has been widely addressed from various perspectives. A number of studies indicate that, until the 1980s, compactness was a key trait of several cities of the Northern Mediterranean. However, after the ‘compact growth’ period, these cities experienced patterns of urbanization that differed from their traditional trends. Since the 1990s, sprawl, coupled with population decline in the inner cities, has become the main pattern of urban development. This article explores the key features of exurban development in the Mediterranean region in order to provide material for a discussion based on the differences and similarities in the characteristics of sprawl processes originating in the US and Northern Europe. It concludes that any debate on policy responses to sprawl must be specifically formulated according to the scope, administrative level, housing and planning system, territorial and socioeconomic characteristics of the urban system under examination. It is our belief that sprawl requires site‐specific analyses and policy strategies for the region being studied if the process is to be effectively controlled.

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Infrastructure‐Related Urban Sprawl: Mega‐Events and Hybrid Peri‐Urban Landscapes in Southern Europe

Cited by 44 publications

References 15 publications

Towards a Polycentric Region? The Socio‐economic Trajectory of Rome, an ‘Eternally Mediterranean’ City

Towards a Polycentric Region? The Socio‐economic Trajectory of Rome, an ‘Eternally Mediterranean’ City

The spatialization of democratic politics: Insights from Indignant Squares

Unveiling Urban Sprawl in the Mediterranean Region: Towards a Latent Urban Transformation?

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