Ilaria Mariotti is an associate professor of urban and regional economics in the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Mina Di Marino is an associate professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway. Pavel Bednář is an assistant professor and head of the Department of Regional Development, Public Sector Administration and Law, Faculty of Management and Economics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic.