Overview
- Explores the current European urban policy agendas at different scales
- Empirical and theoretical chapters
- Offers a timely contribution to the debate on the significance of the urban dimension at the national/regional/local level
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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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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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Multi-scalar Agendas at the National and Supranational Level
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Region-Making and Metropolitan Areas in Multi-level Agendas
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Metropolitan and City Regions Agendas
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Regional and Urban Agendas Between Policy and Planning
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Simonetta Armondi Arch., PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Economic and Political Geography at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano, where she teaches Urban Planning and Urban Political Geography. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Urban Technology and EyesReg (Journal of Regional Science) and together with S. Di Vita, she coedited Milan. Spatial Pattern and Urban Change (Routledge, 2018), and The New Urban Geographies of Creative and Knowledge Economy. Foregrounding Innovative Productions, Workplaces and Public Policies in Contemporary Cities (Routledge, 2018). Her most recent published article is “State rescaling and new metropolitan space in the age of austerity. Evidence from Italy”, Geoforum, 81 (2017). Her research interests focus on urban and regional change and economic restructuring related to contemporary spatial rescaling, as well as public policies in which old and new spatial narratives are mobilized.
Sonia De Gregorio Hurtado Arch., PhD with European mention, is a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Urban and Spatial Planning at the School of Architecture of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid –UPM. She has experience as a practitioner in architecture and urban planning, developing projects in Europe, North Africa, Asia and Central America, and served as a research fellow at CEDEX (Ministry of Public Works). She has also been a visiting researcher at the European Institute for Urban Affairs (Liverpool), the Boku University (Vienna), and the University IUAV of Venice (Italy). She has participated as an expert in the framework of the Urban Agenda for the European Union (Urban Poverty and Urban Research Partnership). Her research work focuses on analyzing the urban dimension of EU policies and national urban policies, with a focus on integrated urban regeneration, local climate change, mobility and gender.
Sonia De Gregorio Hurtado Arch., PhD with European mention, is a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Urban and Spatial Planning at the School of Architecture of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid –UPM. She has experience as a practitioner in architecture and urban planning, developing projects in Europe, North Africa, Asia and Central America, and served as a research fellow at CEDEX (Ministry of Public Works). She has also been a visiting researcher at the European Institute for Urban Affairs (Liverpool), the Boku University (Vienna), and the University IUAV of Venice (Italy). She has participated as an expert in the framework of the Urban Agenda for the European Union (Urban Poverty and Urban Research Partnership). Her research work focuses on analyzing the urban dimension of EU policies and national urban policies, with a focus on integrated urban regeneration, local climate change, mobility and gender.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Foregrounding Urban Agendas
Book Subtitle: The New Urban Issue in European Experiences of Policy-Making
Editors: Simonetta Armondi, Sonia De Gregorio Hurtado
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29073-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29072-6Published: 14 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29075-7Published: 15 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-29073-3Published: 31 October 2019
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 316
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Sustainable Development, Public Policy, Urban Studies/Sociology