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Le livre rassemble les contributions de chercheurs français et africains – camerounais en particulier – présentées à un séminaire interdisciplinaire organisé à Yaoundé sur le rapport entre migrations féminines et développement des technologies de l’information et de la communication (TIC) en Afrique. Une récolte de réflexions et de récits, donc, qui est innervée d’une part sur le privilège heuristique de l’insider, en prévenant les risques de distorsions orientalistes et postcoloniales inévit...

This work aims at evaluating from a critical perspective the socio-economic and territorial effects exerted by the ecosystem of new companies with high levels of innovation, creativity and technological assets, that is to say the creative startup which are widely regarded as players of entrepreneurial spirit and territorial innovation. From the theoretical standpoint, the research is included in the frame of economic geography exploring patterns and diffusion of knowledge, innovation and creativity. From the methodological point of view, the work scrutinises the localization factors, the patterns of clusterization and the relations between creative startups, urban milieux and local entrepreneurial ecosystem through a place-based case study: the Italian southern region Sicily, which represents a highly interesting case due to the recent emphasis on creativity and innovation as tools of development for the disadvantaged socio-economic regions. Thus, in the first section the work deepens the theoretical and epistemological issues related to the concepts of knowledge, creativity, innovation as well ass their relations with economic and urban structures, ranging from the Creative City paradigm to the new mantra of Startup City. In the second section, the territorial dimension of innovation and creativity is explored at the European and national level and, finally, through the case study about Sicily.

Inserito nel quadro teorico della letteratura sulla Smart City, il presente lavoro mira ad analizzare le implicazioni derivanti dall’utilizzo delle nuove tecnologie intelligenti per la valorizzazione turistica delle location cinematografiche. Dal punto di vista metodologico, l’articolo si fonda su un’analisi quali-quantitativa di alcuni casi di smart movie tourism, al fine di indagare le caratteristiche delle applicazioni per smartphone e tablet (apps) che consentono la riproduzione virtuale degli itinerari cinematografici in alcune regioni italiane, evidenziandone potenzialità, risultati e criticità. Inserted in the theoretical frame of Smart city literature, this paper aims at analysing the impacts of smart technologies for the tourist enhancement of movie locations. From the methodological standpoint, the work is based on a qualitative and quantitative analysis of different cases of smart movie tourism in Italy, in particular some selected applications for smartphones and tablet (apps) focused on Italian movie locations, in order to underline their potentialities, results and critical aspects., 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.

Annali del turismo, anno III (2014), p. 97-114