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Il paper sintetizza le fasi della ricerca dell'Unità Locale siciliana nell'ambito del PRIN 2015 "Commercio, consumo e città. Pratiche, pianificazione e governance per l’inclusione, la resilienza e la sostenibilità urbane" coordinato da Lida Viganoni (UNiversità degli Studi di Napoli 'L'Orientale'".

Com’è noto, il turismo si presenta come uno tra i fenomeni territoriali più dinamici e con un’elevata propensione al cambiamento. Negli ultimi decenni, nel mercato si sono imposte nuove forme di turismo con l’obiettivo di soddisfare nuove esigenze dei consumatori sempre più esigenti e pronti a nuove esperienze di viaggio. Tra queste nuove tipologie di turismo, il Film-Induced-Tourism svolge un ruolo determinate per il posizionamento di numerose destinazioni in tutto il mondo. Pertanto, la pellicola diviene il punto di partenza nella costruzione dell’itinerario di viaggio del turista-consumatore. Ma, concretamente, quali sono le ricadute positive che il fenomeno del Film Induced Tourism propone? È questa la domanda a cui si è cercato di dare una risposta studiando un caso piuttosto singolare nel panorama delle location Nord americane, e cioè gli effetti attrattivi che i luoghi del famoso Magic Bus, nel film Into the Wild. Dopo il successo del film, l’Alaska, nonostante la scarsa accessibilità strutturale, ha goduto di una crescita esponenziale degli arrivi: ogni anno un milione e mezzo di visitatori, provenienti da tutto il mondo, si reca in questi luoghi per rivivere le emozioni provate durante la visione. As you know, tourism is seen as one of the most dynamic and territorial phenomena with a high propensity to change. In recent decades, the market would have imposed new forms of tourism with the aim of meeting the new demands of consumers increasingly demanding and ready for new travel experiences. Among these new types of tourism, the Film Induced Tourism plays a certain role for the positioning of numerous destinations around the world. Therefore, the film becomes the starting point in the construction of the travel itinerary of the tourist-consumer. But, actually, what are the positive effects that the phenomenon of the Film Induced Tourism proposes? This is the question to which we tried to answer by studying a rather unique case in the world of North American locations, namely the effects that attractive places of the famous Magic Bus, in the film Into the Wild. After the success of the film, Alaska, despite the lack of structural accessibility, has enjoyed exponential growth in arrivals: every year a million and a half visitors, from all over the world, travels to these places to relive the emotions during viewing., IL CAPITALE CULTURALE. Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, Supplementi (4/2016): La città di celluloide tra vocazione turistica ed esperienze creative

This paper aims at scrutinizing the evolution of the retail sector and, consequently, of retailscapes in a Southern Italy city, Catania. Starting from the outputs of an empirical place-based research project carried out by the authors in the mid ’2000s, the work deepens the recent transformations occurred both in the central areas and in the suburbs, in order to explore the processes and dynamics – produced by and within the retail field – which have been shaping urban morphology and socio-economic functions in the last decade.

I processi di suburbanizzazione commerciale in atto ormai da decenni in diversi scenari urbani non soltanto hanno ridisegnato i modelli e i luoghi di consumo, scompaginando la dialettica tradizionale centro/periferia, ma hanno anche plasmato un’inedita configurazione degli spazi urbani e periurbani, in particolare dei loro modelli di organizzazione e dei processi di produzione e consumo di risorse. La coscienza sempre più diffusa dell’importanza della sostenibilità, declinata in ambito economico, sociale e ambientale, rende necessaria una riflessione sugli effetti prodotti dai grandi luoghi del commercio sul sistema ecologico e antropico in cui insistono. Al di là di una vasta gamma di tipologie, modelli e pattern di utilizzo, i grandi luoghi del commercio periferici, infatti, condividono una caratteristica, ovvero un consistente impatto territoriale che si traduce normalmente nel consumo di spazi rurali a ridosso della città, alterandone equilibri ecologici e antropici sedimentati negli anni, per restituirli, come si comincia a leggere nelle realtà territoriali più mature, come nuovi elementi di “vuoto” extraurbano. Inoltre, gli outlet e gli shopping center consumano notevoli quantità di energia e acqua, oltre a produrre rifiuti e a incidere, in particolari periodi dell’anno, sulla distribuzione e l’entità dei flussi veicolari. Inserito nel quadro teorico degli studi geografici relativi alla localizzazione dei luoghi del commercio e ai loro effetti sul territorio, il presente lavoro mira a valutare le implicazioni relative al consumo di risorse naturali prodotte da outlet e shopping center situati in diverse aree della Sicilia, attraverso un’analisi geo-territoriale che ne evidenzi sia le criticità che le best practice elaborate dagli attori locali pubblici e privati al fine di arginare gli impatti negativi in termini di sostenibilità ambientale ma anche sociale.

This paper deals with the analysis of current changes which have been recently shaping unprecedented urban structures in some suburban areas, due to the emerging of new consumptions spaces. In particular, the work aims at highlighting the effect of urban sprawl on the main Sicilian metropolitan areas, also moulded by the diffusion of the suburban retailing formats, in order to evaluate to what extent these dynamics have been contributing to the configuration of new urban landscapes and unprecedented socio-economic structures, not to mention the support in the process of containing social and economic marginalisation.

In the present-day post-industrial society and in a globalised economy there is a strong tendency towards standardization and homologation. If we consider one of the most traditional urban functions - the commercial one - analysing what is happening in the centre of the cities of all the developed countries of the world, we notice a process of standardization regarding the offer, both in the sense of the single articles sold and in the sense of the commercial area in all its complexity (uniformity of the showcases for the exposure, diminution of the historical shops with sale of distinctive articles, diffusion of the branches of national and international chains and the phenomenon of franchising). Therefore, the central areas of our cities tend to be more and more alike. Obviously this is fruit of a more complex process, that is concretized in the tendency towards the diversification of the distributive network through the rapid diffusion of hypermarkets and commercial centres in the outskirts of cities and in the changed behaviour of the consumers, more and more directed to American styles of consumption. What kind of role will the more traditional commercial structures that characterize the Italian historical centres have in the future? Despite the fact that these last ones are, at the moment, under considerable pressure that pushes towards a more radical change, there is the possibility however that the particular "commercial landscape" that characterizes them could itself become a new model of development capable of promoting the urban culture, close to the functionalistic model, currently in expansion, totally directed towards the peripheral spaces. Catania is a city where we find, to a great extent, the evolutionary characteristics of the southern urban system, but in which we find even more the changes and the tendencies present in the cities of the more developed regions when processes of decentralization of economic activities, residential activities and of the social structures are outlined. The commercial patrimony of Catania, besides the cultural one, represents one of the pivots on which the identity of the city is based. It represents a resource for the development of the town and a stimulation of tourism. This research investigates the solidity and the potentialities of traditional commerce in the central areas of the city of Catania in relation to the dynamics of development of the external commercial centres.

Sicily has an unusual coastal reality: widespread illegal building, industrial pollution, abandonment, under-valued unique sites with strong natural, tourist, cultural and economic potential. A common topic nowadays is the integrated management of the coastal area for a sustainable development. The aspects to consider are many: administrative, managerial, juridical, political, scientific, planning and so on. These aspects will be important both in the realization of operational interventions for the recovery of degraded areas and of eco-compatible planning. It will be necessary to tie the economic development to the maintenance of the environment according to the recent directives of the European Union that point out - in the principles of sustainable development - the guidelines for community politics. In this paper we will focus on the problems of the eastern Sicilian coastal zone (with particular attention paid to coastal protection and port/harbour management) and the opportunities that marine tourism can offer to local development in general.