Firenze University Press www.fupress.com/bsgi Th e Role of Commerce in the Main Urban Area of Abruzzo: an Intra-Urban Reading Citation: F. Ferrari, S. Iacuone, S. Scorrano, M. Fuschi (2020). The Role of Commerce in the Main Urban Area Il ruolo del commercio nella principale area urbana d’Abruzzo: of Abruzzo: an Intra-Urban Reading. una lettura a scala intra-urbana Bollettino della Società Geografi ca Itali- ana serie 14, 3 Special Issue: 93-103. doi: 10.36253/bsgi-997 Fabrizio Ferrari1, Silvia Iacuone1, Silvia Scorrano2, Marina Fuschi1 Copyright: © 2020 F. Ferrari, S. Iacuone, S. Scorrano, M. Fuschi. This is an 1 Dipartimento di Economia (DEc), Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti- open access, peer-reviewed article Pescara, Pescara, Italy published by Firenze University Press 2 Dipartimento di Lettere, Arti e Scienze Sociali (DiLASS), Università degli Studi “G. (http://www.fupress.com/bsgi) and dis- d’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara, Italy tributed under the terms of the Crea- tive Commons Attribution License, E-mail:
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[email protected] bution, and reproduction in any medi- um, provided the original author and source are credited. Abstract. Since the 1950s, the urban structure of Abruzzo has gradually polarized on the area of Pescara-Chieti, as the expression of a series of location and settlement Data Availability Statement: All rel- advantages. Th ere, the trade sector, favoured by a period of expansion of large-scale evant data are within the paper and its commercial distribution, represented a powerful vehicle for territorial convergence and Supporting Information fi les.