Urban regeneration in the UE through the reciprocal relationship between greenfield FDI and smart cities
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https://doi.org/10.6092/2281-4574/5313Keywords:
Geography of innovation, urban regeneration, smart city, FDI foreign direct investments.Abstract
During the last three decades, the European Union has paid increasing attention to the key role that cities play in the development of the European territory and their potential contribution to addressing the economic, climate, environmental and social challenges that the UE continues to face .This tendency to place cities within broader, even supranational, scenarios is due to the fact that the phenomena of globalization and the predominance of an economy now more based on the intangible than on the exchange of physical goods has led to a disintegration vertical of productive processes, which apparently could weaken the role of the cities themselves, but at the same time triggered a great concentration of resources in the nodes of management of supranational processes, with consequent amplification of urban value. These nodes are made up of cities with certain characteristics that make them, even through urban regeneration processes, intelligent cities.
This theme can be approached with different metrics and from different points of view. In the proposed work, the path of analysis followed is given from the research regarding the eventual mutual correlation between FDI, Foreign Direct Investments and urban regeneration driven by a smart cities perspective.
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