Homage (and Criticism) to the Mediterranean City

Ioannis Vardopoulos, Senior Fellow and Research Assistant in Sustainable Urban Management at Harokopio University of Athens, GreeceFrancisco Escrivà Saneugenio, Ph.D. Candidate in Geography at University of Valencia, SpainAdele Sateriano, Lawyer and Independent Researcher, Ph.D. at Pontificia Universitas Lateranensis, Rome, ItalyLuca Salvati, Senior Researcher and Associate Professor of Economic Statistics at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

• 1. Mediterranean Cities, Regional Sustainability, and Economic Resilience 2. Whispers of Change: Thirty Years for Redefining the 'Mediterranean City' 3. The Extrinsic Manifestation of Sprawl: Complex Dynamics of Urbanization, Land Imperviousness, and Sustainability in Mediterranean Landscapes 4. Deciphering Metropolitan Expansion: Settlement Patterns and Socio-environmental Dynamics 5. From ‘Cityscape’ to ‘Poolside’: A Comprehensive Analysis of Sprawl in the Mediterranean