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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.
The temporal and spatial intersection of information and
telecommunication technologies, creative and knowledge economies,
and related new manufacturing systems, has been leading to
significant effects on urban socioeconomic and spatial
configurations and public policies. Specifically, the post-crisis
emergence of innovative workplaces to accommodate these changes, is
creating socioeconomic and spatial features that are only recently
beginning to be explored in the scholarly literature. According to
this scenario, this edited book offers a variety of avenues for
exploring the relationships between contemporary production
activities and new workplaces in several urban contexts. In
particular, it focuses on the consequences of these relationships
in terms of regeneration of the urban fabric, as well as on their
implication in terms of urban policies. This book represents early
observation of the fast-growing phenomenon of new productive
activities and workplaces against the background of the gig economy
and sharing economy paradigms. Central to this discussion is the
investigation of the connection between digital technologies, new
works and workplaces, and urban change processes and projects, by
providing an additional contribution to new urban agendas for
contemporary cities. The chapters originally published as a special
issue in the Journal of Urban Technology.
COVID-19 has stressed the condition of radical uncertainty that
increasingly characterises our times and compels cities to learn
new ways to cope with unexpected global urban challenges. The
volume proposes preparedness as a key concept in urban geography,
planning, and policy, inviting international scholars to discuss
its pros and cons. Firstly, it builds a critical theoretical
framework around the concept of preparedness in relation to the
COVID-19 effects and other interconnected crises. Then, the authors
put at work and redefine preparedness, starting from worldwide
surveys, research experiences, public discourses and spatial
strategies analysis in Europe and, more extensively, in Italy.
Finally, the closing section goes beyond the view of preparedness
as an emergency tool, proposing to interpret it more broadly as a
technology supporting a sustainable urban transition. The book
mainly targets academics in urban planning, policy, and geography.
However, the prominence of the topic of preparedness makes the
volume an essential reading not only within social sciences but
further in engineering, basic sciences, and life science. In
addition, the book provides directions to practitioners and civic
leaders in supporting cities and regions to prepare themselves in
the face of pandemics and unpredictable socio-environmental shocks.
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.
The temporal and spatial intersection of information and
telecommunication technologies, creative and knowledge economies,
and related new manufacturing systems, has been leading to
significant effects on urban socioeconomic and spatial
configurations and public policies. Specifically, the post-crisis
emergence of innovative workplaces to accommodate these changes, is
creating socioeconomic and spatial features that are only recently
beginning to be explored in the scholarly literature. According to
this scenario, this edited book offers a variety of avenues for
exploring the relationships between contemporary production
activities and new workplaces in several urban contexts. In
particular, it focuses on the consequences of these relationships
in terms of regeneration of the urban fabric, as well as on their
implication in terms of urban policies. This book represents early
observation of the fast-growing phenomenon of new productive
activities and workplaces against the background of the gig economy
and sharing economy paradigms. Central to this discussion is the
investigation of the connection between digital technologies, new
works and workplaces, and urban change processes and projects, by
providing an additional contribution to new urban agendas for
contemporary cities. The chapters originally published as a special
issue in the Journal of Urban Technology.
This book highlights the discontinuities and the ongoing
development of the urban question in policy-making in the context
of the controversial current issues of global reversal and regional
revival. It critically examines contemporary public policies and
practices at the urban, regional and national scales in order to
offer a timely contribution to the debate on the significance of
the urban dimension and interpretation in terms of the theory,
policy and practice of social-spatial research in the twenty-first
century. Focusing on Europe, it explores the current urban policy
agendas at different scales - and the mobility of those agendas -,
their implications, contradictions and controversies. It brings
together original contributions from multiple disciplines but with
an urban perspective, including empirical case studies and critical
discussions of the following topics: the UN 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development, the global "New Urban Agenda" as part of
the Habitat III process; the Urban Agenda for the European Union;
national spatial policies related to urban agendas; urban agendas
at regional/urban levels; city regionalism discourse and state
rescaling; new formal regional and metropolitan governments as a
solution (or problem); the role of new actors in regional
urbanization dynamics; multi-level governance processes in
developing an urban agenda; informal assemblages at the
metropolitan scale aiming at constructing the urban concept and
dimension. Given its scope, the book is of interest to urban,
regional and EU policy-makers, scholars and students working in the
fields of urban geography, urban studies, EU urban and regional
policies, and planning.
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