La costruzione del capitale territoriale negli spazi di frontiera: verso una tipologia di Alberto Bramanti e Remigio Ratti

The Construction of Territorial Capital in Trans-border Spaces: Towards a Typology
by Alberto Bramanti and Remigio Ratti

ABSTRACT
The multi-faced dimensions of trans-border areas’ specificity represent a challenge for the regional science, which is emerging under a new viewing angle, in the force field between institutional constraints and integration
processes due to globalization.
The goal of the article – lacking a theoretical model, which is still to be done – is to detect the different issues concerning their development and to address a typology as a basis for their governance. The paper addresses the specific territorial capital of different trans-border areas focusing on evolving types of spatial barriers. A new theoretical frame is developed crossing the three articulations of territorial capital (productivity, clusterisation and
attractiveness) with the three evolving views of frontiers (barrier borders, contact zone, open space and gateway).
Table 1 reports this frame and exemplifies the different emerging border effects,while acting as a trigger for the studies of new strategies for transborder policies.