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The Urbanization Run-Up in Italy: From a Qualitative Goal in the Boom Decades to the Present and Future Unsustainability

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  • Bernardino Romano

    (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of L’Aquila, Via Gronchi, 18, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy)

  • Lorena Fiorini

    (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of L’Aquila, Via Gronchi, 18, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy)

  • Alessandro Marucci

    (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of L’Aquila, Via Gronchi, 18, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy)

  • Francesco Zullo

    (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of L’Aquila, Via Gronchi, 18, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy)

Abstract

The research presented in the paper intends to overcome an information gap on the evolution of urbanized surfaces in Italy which in the studies carried out so far have never been available. The only historical data on this form of land use date back to the 1950s, and were extracted from a national cartography created by the Military Geographic Institute. The next chronological section available was then that of the noughties, already digital. However, much more frequent data were processed by the ten-year censuses by the National Institute of Statistics, but concerning buildings and not urbanized areas. By processing building census data, this study has put together some novel information on land take dynamics between the end of World War II and the year 2000, highlighting the more intensive processes that occurred at an extraordinary rate in the ‘70′s and ‘80′s, obtaining unprecedented information on the speed of transformation of the territory in these decades of economic boom. Through this method, we were able to obtain numerous geographical indications previously lacking on a national scale, highlight the yet significant vigor of this phenomenon and develop an inferential scenario.

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  • Bernardino Romano & Lorena Fiorini & Alessandro Marucci & Francesco Zullo, 2020. "The Urbanization Run-Up in Italy: From a Qualitative Goal in the Boom Decades to the Present and Future Unsustainability," Land, MDPI, vol. 9(9), pages 1-16, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jlands:v:9:y:2020:i:9:p:301-:d:405014
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