About the Distribution of Daily Services and Commercial Opportunities

In the domain of the urban planning, social and economic set-up, a new virtuous relationship between retail services, along with last mile logistics and urban regeneration projects acquire a role transcending the simple spatial accumulation of different productive activities. They provide the local population with a qualitative endowment of services, generating urbanity, as well as a space of interaction, aggregation and collective time. Few key factors and the contextual conditions that have orientated the diversification and complementarity of the urban supply and the projects of the new urban centralities—oftentimes closely related to the residential proximity areas—have brought to the fore a marked complementariness between the following compositional and settlement elements: spatial integration and urban mix; town planning and architectural quality; settlement regeneration and substitution; public relevance of urban retail services; unified coordination of retail aggregates (district intensity). These dynamics underway open up a planning reflection on the strategies of enhancement of proximity services that, from a gravitational viewpoint, are capable of attenuating the extended outflows of expenses towards the extra-urban territory by projects aiming at the revival and competitive repositioning of historical centres, at the creation of local services districts, channeled by the activation of a public/private structures of coordinated management of large, medium and small-size retail vacancies.