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View article: Urban Sustainability and the Local Politics of Digital Twins: the Cases of Bologna and Milan
Urban Sustainability and the Local Politics of Digital Twins: the Cases of Bologna and Milan Open
To address the complexity of sustainable urban development, policymakers are making increasing use of digital technology tools, now including AI and urban digital twins (UDTs). The aims of the article are to shed light on the political imp…
View article: Constructing metropolitan scales: economic, political and discursive determinants
Constructing metropolitan scales: economic, political and discursive determinants Open
This editorial presents the reasons why the metropolitan scale is gaining momentum as a concept, as well as a process taking place in the real world, and considers its definition. The main questions and theories used in research on the met…
View article: The Politics of Local Security Policy. Ideas for a Sociological Analysis
The Politics of Local Security Policy. Ideas for a Sociological Analysis Open
The article proposes some ideas for a sociological analysis of security policies, with specific regard to urban contexts and focusing especially on the intersection between policy and politics. The main questions concern the way in which s…
View article: Il ruolo politico delle imprese economiche: varietà di attori e modelli di mercato nell’azione pubblica
Il ruolo politico delle imprese economiche: varietà di attori e modelli di mercato nell’azione pubblica Open
The article focuses on the emerging ways in which economic actors influence politics and policy. After an analysis of actions based on financial, relational and administrative resources, the article focuses on how the firms use knowledge a…
View article: Roma: le agende deboli di una capitale subalterna
Roma: le agende deboli di una capitale subalterna Open
Il saggio analizza i processi urbani, economici o sociali che sono stati, da un lato, oggetto di attenzione e azione delle istituzioni di vari livelli (locali, regionali, nazionali) producendo politiche urbane (agenda istituzionale), e, da…
View article: Depoliticizing Public Action by Politicizing Issues, Practices and Actors. The Role of Resilience Thinking in a Program of the Cariplo Foundation
Depoliticizing Public Action by Politicizing Issues, Practices and Actors. The Role of Resilience Thinking in a Program of the Cariplo Foundation Open
We are apparently living in an age of "hyperdepoliticisation". But what is meant today by de-politicization and how does this phenomenon impact upon the forms taken by political functions in con-temporary complex societies? The aim of this…
View article: NEOLIBERALISM: THEORIES, PRACTICES AND CONFLICTS Presentation of the special issu
NEOLIBERALISM: THEORIES, PRACTICES AND CONFLICTS Presentation of the special issu Open
In the field of social and economic sciences there has been a growing number of books, articles, symposia, conferences and the like on neoliberalism and neoliberalisa-tion processes. Several perspectives – for example a “structural” and a …
View article: WHAT IS THE USE OF NEOLIBERALISM AND NEOLIBERALISATION? Contentious concepts between description and explanation?
WHAT IS THE USE OF NEOLIBERALISM AND NEOLIBERALISATION? Contentious concepts between description and explanation? Open
The growing interest in neoliberalism and neoliberalisation has produced a wave of academic production, but also criticisms toward these concepts. They concern the conditions under which they may actually work as both/either explanans and/…
View article: Perche e difficile costruire la Citta metropolitana a Roma: un’interpretazione sociologica
Perche e difficile costruire la Citta metropolitana a Roma: un’interpretazione sociologica Open
Dai primi passi compiuti la Città metropolitana di Roma capitale (Cmrc) appare un’istituzione il cui ruolo politico e amministrativo è ancora debole e ambiguo. Questa circostanza conferma la nota e diffusa difficoltà di costruire governmen…