The traveling of the theory of industrial districts through different geographical contexts and theoretical perspectives has provideda decisive contribution to the reassertion of the importance of space and place in economic analysis and the social sciences, as wellas to the qualitative understanding of regional development processes.
Santi Romano was born in Palermo, Sicily on January 31, 1875. His origins had a notable impact on his legal training, as Palermo was the cradle of a host of renewed legal studies that changed once and for all the way of approaching public law in Italy. His teacher, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, was both a leading statesman and an innovator of the notion and practice of public and administrative law.
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