Milan: Productions Spatial Patterns and Urban Change

<p>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.</p><p></p><p>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. </p><p></p><p>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.</p>