By Simonetta Armondi,Stefano Di Vita
As a prime city centre of 1 of the main dynamic ecu areas, Milan is a key position from which to review narratives of techniques and modern productions – previous and new production, tertiary and consumptive sectors, inventive and cultural economic system – and examine their impact either on spatial styles and concrete coverage agenda.
Accordingly, this booklet explores the contentious geographies of innovation, productions and dealing areas, either empirically and theoretically in a urban that, because the starting of the 2000s, has been thinking about a means of city swap, with appropriate spatial and socio-economic results, inside of an more and more turbulent international financial system. via this research, the ebook presents an perception into the complexity of up to date city phenomena past a standard metropolitan lens, highlighting matters similar to rescaling, city decentralization and recentralization, large city transformation and shrinkage and molecular city regeneration.
This e-book is a important source for lecturers, researchers and students concentrating on city stories equivalent to city coverage, city making plans, city Geography, city economic system and concrete Sociology.
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