Logistics and spatial transformations: what challenges for urban and territorial plans and projects?

Journal title TERRITORIO
Author/s Silvia Ronchi, Stefano Di Vita
Publishing Year 2026 Issue 2024/111
Language Italian Pages 3 P. 13-15 File size 105 KB
DOI 10.3280/TR2024-111002
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The growth of logistics is redefining production territories, compromising soil, altering ecological balances, and spoiling the landscape quality. This issue offers a transversal exploration of the phenomenon, with contributions that analyze logistics’ economic, environmental, spatial, and social implications, offering interpretative tools to guide urban and territorial policies, plans and projects. The fragmentation of policies and the weakness of coordinated supra-local planning represent the central issues to be addressed for effectively managing the transformations, highlighting the need for tools that combine logistics development with environmental sustainability, territorial cohesion, and landscape regeneration.

Keywords: governance; large-scale spatial planning; environmental impacts

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Silvia Ronchi, Stefano Di Vita, Logistica e trasformazioni spaziali: quali sfide per piani e progetti urbanistici e territoriali? in "TERRITORIO" 111/2024, pp 13-15, DOI: 10.3280/TR2024-111002