Uneven Urban and Regional Growth
Global Urbanization, Regional Economies and Local Dynamics
- 1st Edition - June 1, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editor: Luca Salvati
- Language: English
Uneven Urban and Regional Growth: Global Urbanization, Regional Economies and Local Dynamics examines the links between economic growth, metropolitan development, and enviro… Read more
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Description
Description
Structured in three sections, the book begins with a global-to-regional perspective on urbanization and economic dynamics, featuring analyses of uneven economic growth, urban-rural dynamics, and urbanization trends supported by global statistics and case studies from the United States, Iran, and Italy. The second section delves into socio-demographic drivers of urbanization at the regional and district levels, including population dynamics, family patterns, migration, and environmental health indicators in Mediterranean contexts. The final section focuses on local planning and territorial factors influencing urbanization, addressing topics such as landscape quality, labor markets, sustainable regional development, port infrastructure economics, and gendered urban spaces. Richly illustrated with photographs, graphs, maps, and case studies, the book integrates interdisciplinary perspectives from applied economics, geography, sociology, demography, planning, and socio-environmental sciences.
Key features
Key features
- Explores the complex interplay between economic growth, social dynamics, and environmental sustainability in urban contexts across advanced economies through a multidisciplinary lens
- Analyzes diverse global case studies that compare settlement patterns, urban-rural dynamics, and spatial planning strategies to reveal integrated approaches to sustainable metropolitan development
- Examines innovative, multilevel governance models designed to address territorial inequalities, urban sprawl, and socio-environmental challenges at multiple spatial scales
- Integrates perspectives from regional economics, sociology, demography, geography, and environmental studies to offer a comprehensive and original framework for understanding urban transformation
- Presents accessible empirical data, composite indicators, and visual aids that support applied research and practical decision-making for academics and urban practitioners alike
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
2. Urban-rural dynamics and long-term economic development: a global analysis of world regions
Section 1. From global to regional: urbanization and economic dynamics
3. Urbanization in progress: a complete and comparative overview with global statistics
4. The use of elementary indicators and composite indexes when monitoring urbanization all over the world
5. Estimating urbanization and production functions in the United States
6. The challenge of housing prices as an engine of early urbanization in Iran
7. Tourism as an engine of growth in Italy
Section 2. From regional to district: socio-demographic aspects as urbanization drivers
8. Exploring urban-rural population dynamics in Mediterranean countries
9. A comparative analysis of family patterns in Greece and other Southern European countries
10. The inherent shift from monocentric to polycentric settlements in northern Italy
11. Migration patterns and the contribution to Mediterranean urbanization
12. Relating mortality records to the Discomfort Index (DI) and Air Quality Stress Index (AQSI) in an industrial city of Greece
Section 3. From district to local: planning and territorial aspects as urbanization drivers
13. Pedestrians’ perception of landscape quality and urban livability: a field survey in Iran
14. Regional labor markets and jobs creation: Geographical and socio-economic characteristics and the role of local and regional authorities
15. Material topics, regional development and distributed value in the sustainable reports: the case of the paper industry
16. The local economics of port infrastructures
17. Gendered urban spaces and (dis)satisfaction with ladies-only parks in Iran
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: June 1, 2026
- Language: English
About the editor
About the editor
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Luca Salvati
Luca Salvati is an adjunct professor and staff researcher at Sapienza University of Rome. Since 2001 he has been staff researcher at the National Council for Research in Agriculture and the Analysis of Agricultural Economics (CREA). He is an expert in official statistics, spatial statistics, Geographic Information Systems and Remote sensing applied to socioeconomic and environmental issues. He has conducted studies on topics of economic statistics, urban economics, regional demography, and sustainable development, using exploratory multivariate statistics and geographic information systems for decision support. He has held courses in Economic Statistics (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Basic Mathematics (University of Rome La Sapienza), Multivariate Statistics (University of Roma Tre), Regional Economics (University of Camerino, University of Eastern Piedmont), Strategic Evaluation of environmental impact (University of Roma Tre). He has supervised master's and doctoral theses and has published more than 30 printed books and over 600 scientific publications in English.