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First published in 1999, this volume situates the Italian urban system within a European context, examining the best approach to integration. Connections between urban development, territorial cohesion and the European urban system have been clearly identified by Europe 2000 (1991) and identified as primary instruments for achieving social and economic cohesion and competitiveness as per the Treaty of Maastricht and the White Paper, Growth, Competitiveness, Employment (1993). This book aids this endeavour through featuring contributions on cities as nodes of transport networks, economic...

This text introduces a set of papers representing the main contribution of the "Florence school" to contemporary literature on industrial districts. The authors illustrate that the revitalization of the concept of industrial districts, returning to Alfred Marshall's 19th-century writings, is rooted in an unconventional interpretation of the economic development of Tuscany after World War II. Models of industrial organization and empirical investigation of industrial tendencies are featured, and Alfred Marshall's concepts of the advantages of the geographical agglomeration of specialized small...