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What Is Happening to Industrial Districts?

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Industrial Districts are one of the most important specifically Italian economic models to arise in the second half of twentieth century. The global and local crises that have occurred over the last fifteen years have ended up by transforming districts and their territories in a broad variety of ways. Considering six case studies, this contribution identifies six models of transformation which could draw a new geography of productive industrial territories.

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    This is one of the weaknesses the analysis of the Osservatorio Nazionale dei Distretti Italiani is pointing out. <http://www.osservatoriodistretti.org/node/345/distretto-industriale-del-mobile-imbottito-di-matera>.

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    See i.e. Bellandi and Caloffi (2012), Brancati (2012), Calafati (2012), Davezies (2012), Arrighetti and Traù (2013), Bronzini et al. (2013), Rullani (2013), De Marchi and Grandinetti (2014).

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Cerruti But, M. (2018). What Is Happening to Industrial Districts?. In: Viganò, P., Cavalieri, C., Barcelloni Corte, M. (eds) The Horizontal Metropolis Between Urbanism and Urbanization. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75975-3_29

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