The International Journal ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES ISSN 2345-0282 (online) http://jssidoi.org/jesi/ 2018 Volume 6 Number 2 (December) http://doi.org/10.9770/jesi.2018.6.2(31) Publisher http://jssidoi.org/esc/home URBAN INEQUALITIES IN ITALY: A COMPARISON BETWEEN ROME, MILAN AND NAPLES Keti Lelo¹, Salvatore Monni² Federico Tomassi3 1Department of Business Studies, Roma Tre University, Via Ostiense 149, Rome 00154, Italy 2Department of EConomiCs, Roma Tre University; Via Ostiense 149, Rome 00154, Italy 3 Italian AGenCy for Territorial Cohesion, Rome, Via SiCilia 162, Rome 00187, Italy E-mails:1
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[email protected] ReCeived 15 September 2018; aCCepted 25 November 2018; published 30 December 2018 Abstract. The aim of this paper is to examine the spatial distribution of socioeconomic inequalities in the municipal territories of Italy’s three most populous metropolitan cities, Roma, Milan and Napoli, by means of economic and social indicators and with data aggregated at the sub-municipal subdivisions of the cities and the municipalities in their provinces. These metropolitan areas are coming out of the worst crisis Italy has ever experienced, with a new class of poor people found not only in the outskirts and in the less well-off social groups but also among the middle class. Local and national governments cannot ignore this situation; the weakest sections of society have been unable to reap the benefits of the growth in the quaternary sector that has characterized Milan, Rome and Naples after the last decade, albeit to differing degrees.