Critical issues in land-use planning: the anomaly of the Italian scenario

Considering soil consumption dynamics, effective urban planning should adopt holistic approaches taking into account the multifactorial features characterizing urban sustainability, such as legality, sustainable mobility, participatory governance, the socio-economic condition and greenery urban. In this framework, the dynamics of Italian land consumption appears anomalous, as it presents critical issues even in cities characterized by high values of other urban sustainability indexes. The main goal of this work is to verify the transversality of the critical phenomenon of soil consumption even in virtuous cities as emerging from these different indices. The correlation investigated was developed by considering two variables related to the main Italian municipalities: urban size and geographical location.