Inner areas matter: a placesensitive approach for the identification of the Daily Life Spaces in the Abruzzo Region

Fabiano Compagnucci () and Gabriele Morettini ()
Additional contact information
Fabiano Compagnucci: Gran Sasso Science Institute
Gabriele Morettini: Università Politecnica delle Marche

No 2022-04, Discussion Paper series in Regional Science & Economic Geography from Gran Sasso Science Institute, Social Sciences

Abstract: Despite the institutionalisation of the issue of inner areas with the National Strategy for Inner Areas (SNAI), a reflection on their spatial organisation is still missing. Our paper aims at filling this gap by providing a methodology aimed at identifying the citizens’ Daily Life Spaces (DLS) in the Abruzzo region. Their identification results from a multi-step algorithm based on an original definition of central places and on the notions of geographical and organised proximity which consider both citizens’ isochrones and commuting flows. Results show that the output of the algorithm can be used as the spatial unit of analysis of cohesion policies. Our methodology is further able to provide the internal spatial organisation of both Labour Market Areas and Project Areas and is consistent with an historical perspective. Finally, it questions the SNAI classification, calling for a revision of its methodology of identification.

Keywords: inner areas; functional areas; daily life spaces; clustering algorithm; sub-regional centres (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R11 R12 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2022-07, Revised 2024-10
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.gssi.it/images/discussion%20papers%20rseg/DPRSEG_2022_04.pdf First version, 2020 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ahy:wpaper:wp30

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Discussion Paper series in Regional Science & Economic Geography from Gran Sasso Science Institute, Social Sciences Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Andrea Ascani ().