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Enabling Urban Alternatives
This book asks how thinking, governing, performing, and producing the urban differently can assist in enabling the creation of alternative urban futures. It is a timely response to the ongoing crises and pressing challenges that inhabitants of cities, towns, and villages worldwide are faced with in the midst of what has been widely dubbed as ‘an urban age’. Starting from the premise that current urban development patterns are unsustainable in every sense of the word, the book explores how alternative patterns can be pursued by the wide variety of actors – from governments and international institutions to slum-dwellers and social movements – involved in the on-going production of our...
Mega-Events and Legacies in Post-Metropolitan Spaces
This book offers new perspectives through which to observe and interpret mega-events. Using the specific case studies of World’s Fairs, Di Vita and Morandi present a report of the Milan Expo 2015 and its trans-scalar legacies. While the event and post-event have been affected by the world crisis, the locations of exhibition areas have greatly expanded, encompassing regional as well as post-metropolitan spaces. The two main aims of comparing Milan to previous expos such as Lisbon 1998, Zaragoza 2008 and Shanghai 2010, were to demonstrate the contribution of the 2015 World’s Fair to the urban innovation process and to the debate surrounding a new urban agenda; as well as to examine empirically and theoretically the international discussion regarding the growth of regional and macro-regional scales of contemporary cities in order to offer suggestions for future urban agendas through mega-events. This book will be of great value to students, researchers and policy makers in the area of urban planning and the urban studies more broadly, geography and spatial politics.
The Production of Alternative Urban Spaces
Alternative urban spaces across civic, private, and public spheres emerge in response to the great challenges that urban actors are currently confronted with. Labour markets are changing rapidly, the availability of affordable housing is under intensifying pressure, and public spaces have become battlegrounds of urban politics. This edited collection brings together contributors in order to spark an international dialogue about the production of alternative urban spaces through a threefold exploration of alternative spaces of work, dwelling, and public life. Seeking out and examining existing alternative urban spaces, the authors identify the elements that provide opportunities to create rad...
Milan: Productions, Spatial Patterns and Urban Change
As a main urban centre of one of the most dynamic European regions, Milan is a key location from which to study narratives of innovations and contemporary productions – old and new manufacturing, tertiary and consumptive sectors, creative and cultural economy – and investigate their influence both on spatial patterns and urban policy agenda. Accordingly, this book explores the contentious geographies of innovation, productions and working spaces, both empirically and theoretically in a city that, since the beginning of the 2000s, has been involved in a process of urban change, with relevant spatial and socio-economic effects, within an increasingly turbulent world economy. Through this analysis, the book provides an insight into the complexity of contemporary urban phenomena beyond a traditional metropolitan lens, highlighting issues such as rescaling, urban decentralization and recentralization, extensive urban transformation and shrinkage and molecular urban regeneration. This book is a valuable resource for academics, researchers and scholars focusing on Urban Studies such as Urban Policy, Urban Planning, Urban Geography, Urban Economy and Urban Sociology.
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Imprese & città N 03 - Primavera 2014
Il terzo numero di Imprese & Città si apre con un intervento di Paolo Perulli, professore di Sociologia economica, che parla del rapporto fra imprese e città nel campo dell’apprendimento. Segue il "Focus", dedicato in questo numero al manifatturiero e alle sue trasformazioni dopo la crisi internazionale. Sul tema intervengono Mario Baldassarri, Stefano Micelli, Silvia Oliva, Fabio Menghini, Paolo Manfredi, Anna Soru e Augusto Carena. Si riconfermano le sezioni d’interesse urbanistico “Le città si possono ammalare?” “Milano produttiva” e “Sulle trasformazioni urbane del XII secolo”, mentre la sezione “Nuovi processi di governo” è dedicata al tema dell’economia urbana con particolare attenzione alle esperienze milanesi e newyorkesi. Chiude la rivista la sezione “Lettere”, con articoli che intendono gettare luce su realtà urbane e industriali internazionali: dal Regno Unito al Kygyzstan.
