Resili(g)ent Cities, Dream Cities: urban attractiveness and territorial fragility

Journal title TERRITORIO
Author/s Nicola Valentino Canessa
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2024/108-109
Language Italian Pages 12 P. 69-80 File size 734 KB
DOI 10.3280/TR2024-108006
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Resilient(g)cities, capable of combining resilience and intelligence (digital and human), are those that not only survive shocks and stresses, but also use these experiences as opportunities to transform and improve. This transformation process may include the adoption of policies and strategies that promote sustainability in a dynamic process that requires constant commitment and the ability to anticipate and plan for the future. Among the challenges of territorial urban resilience, the one related to over-tourism is gaining ground, which the Dream Cities research seeks to frame from risk to resource, imagining new territorial logics of redistribution.

Keywords: urban resilience; tourism; dream cities

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Nicola Valentino Canessa, Resili(g)ent Cities, Dream Cities: attrattività urbana e fragilità territoriale in "TERRITORIO" 108-109/2024, pp 69-80, DOI: 10.3280/TR2024-108006