IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/fem/fbrief/2021.02.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Extended urbanisation and Covid-19 in Northern Italian Labour Market Areas: what density tells for municipal resilience

Author

Listed:
  • Elia Silvestro

    (Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei)

Abstract

Extended urbanisation has emerged in the contemporary debate as a notion embracing the globalised nature of urban phenomena. This includes how urbanisation exerts an influence beyond the city’s limits, often in places far beyond dense population centres, through a global network connecting geographically distant areas. With its sprawling urbanisation patterns and a globalised industrialisation and economy, Northern Italy perfectly fits within this definition. The context of extended urbanisation is also at the core of the theoretical framework provided by a range of studies devoted to the spatialities of infectious disease (Connolly, Keil, and Ali 2020; Connolly, Ali, and Keil 2020). A spatial analysis of excess mortality during the first wave of Covid-19 in Northern Italy is proposed at the scale of Labour Market Areas (LMAs – Sistemi Locali del Lavoro), with specific attention to density. More in detail, some topological density indices relating to relational intensity and territorial permeability are correlated with 2020 COVID-related deaths, that is, excess deaths compared to the previous five years. This analysis allows combining a snapshot of the contemporary situation with an overview of inter-area disparities. This can highlight the chronic weaknesses of different territorial development models and inform resilience strategies at the inter-municipal scale.

Suggested Citation

  • Elia Silvestro, 2021. "Extended urbanisation and Covid-19 in Northern Italian Labour Market Areas: what density tells for municipal resilience," Briefs, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:fem:fbrief:2021.02
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://feem-media.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/brief02-2021.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Hillary Angelo & David Wachsmuth, 2015. "Urbanizing Urban Political Ecology: A Critique of Methodological Cityism," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 39(1), pages 16-27, January.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Pushpa Arabindoo, 2020. "Renewable energy, sustainability paradox and the post-urban question," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 57(11), pages 2300-2320, August.
    2. Roberta Sonnino & Helen Coulson, 2021. "Unpacking the new urban food agenda: The changing dynamics of global governance in the urban age," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 58(5), pages 1032-1049, April.
    3. Maria Karagianni, 2024. "The urban political ecology of the commons or commoning as a socio-natural process: The case of the Peri-Urban Gardening group in Thessaloniki," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 61(6), pages 1147-1167, May.
    4. Hefeng Wang & Yishao Shi & Anbing Zhang & Yuan Cao & Haixin Liu, 2017. "Does Suburbanization Cause Ecological Deterioration? An Empirical Analysis of Shanghai, China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(1), pages 1-17, January.
    5. Chihsin Chiu, 2020. "Theorizing Public Participation and Local Governance in Urban Resilience: Reflections on the “Provincializing Urban Political Ecology” Thesis," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(24), pages 1-12, December.
    6. Sören Becker & James Angel & Matthias Naumann, 2020. "Energy democracy as the right to the city: Urban energy struggles in Berlin and London," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 52(6), pages 1093-1111, September.
    7. Mortoja, Md. Golam & Yigitcanlar, Tan & Mayere, Severine, 2020. "What is the most suitable methodological approach to demarcate peri-urban areas? A systematic review of the literature," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 95(C).
    8. Jonathan Silver, 2015. "Disrupted Infrastructures: An Urban Political Ecology of Interrupted Electricity in Accra," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 39(5), pages 984-1003, September.
    9. Rocio Carrero & Michele Acuto & Asaf Tzachor & Niraj Subedi & Ben Campbell & Long Seng To, 2019. "Tacit networks, crucial care: Informal networks and disaster response in Nepal’s 2015 Gorkha earthquake," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 56(3), pages 561-577, February.
    10. Lauren Rickards & Brendan Gleeson & Mark Boyle & Cian O’Callaghan, 2016. "Urban studies after the age of the city," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 53(8), pages 1523-1541, June.
    11. Neil Brenner & Swarnabh Ghosh, 2022. "Between the colossal and the catastrophic: Planetary urbanization and the political ecologies of emergent infectious disease," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 54(5), pages 867-910, August.
    12. Kristian Saguin, 2017. "Producing an urban hazardscape beyond the city," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 49(9), pages 1968-1985, September.
    13. Gareth Millington, 2016. "Urbanization and the City Image in Lowry at Tate Britain: Towards a Critique of Cultural Cityism," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 40(4), pages 717-735, July.
    14. Kyle Galindez, 2023. "PLANETARY URBANIZATION AND IMPERIALISM: A View from Guåhan/Guam," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 47(1), pages 5-21, January.
    15. HÃ¥vard Haarstad & Rafael Rosales & Subina Shrestha, 2024. "Freight logistics and the city," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 61(1), pages 3-19, January.
    16. Michael Storper & Allen J Scott, 2016. "Current debates in urban theory: A critical assessment," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 53(6), pages 1114-1136, May.
    17. Freyja L Knapp, 2016. "The birth of the flexible mine: Changing geographies of mining and the e-waste commodity frontier," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 48(10), pages 1889-1909, October.
    18. Roger Keil, 2020. "An urban political ecology for a world of cities," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 57(11), pages 2357-2370, August.
    19. Bethany B. Cutts & Michael Minn, 2018. "Dead Grass: Foreclosure and the Production of Space in Maricopa County, Arizona," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 3(3), pages 16-25.
    20. Megha Amrith, 2018. "Tentative friendships among low-income migrants in São Paulo’s commercial districts," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 55(3), pages 522-537, February.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:fem:fbrief:2021.02. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Alberto Prina Cerai (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/feemmit.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.