Foregrounding Urban Agendas The New Urban Issue in European Experiences of Policy-Making

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.