Edited by Mauro Magatti and Laura Gherardi
Texts by Marc Augé, Vincent Kaufmann, Patrick Le Gales, Saskia Sassen, Nigel Thrift
Foreword by Carlo Sangalli
Preface by Piero Bassetti

This book presents some major contributions concerning contemporary global cities and their governance as they have been introduced by their authors at RISC workshops (Respatialisation, Institutions and Contemporary Society). RISC, a three-year project – stemmed out from the initiative of Università Cattolica in Milan (U.C. Milan), the Milan Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Craft Trade and Agriculture and Globus et Locus – bridges international and interdisciplinary academic theory on global cities’ transformations in the era of flows with the action of institutions.

Texts by Marc Augé, Vincent Kaufmann, Patrick Le Gales, Saskia Sassen, Nigel Thrift.

CONTENTS

Foreword
by Carlo Sangalli

Preface
by Piero Bassetti

Introduction. The City as a Lab: Respatialization, Institutions and Contemporary Society
by Mauro Magatti and Laura Gherardi

Architecture as Illusion and Allusion
by Marc Augé

The Specialised Differences of Global Cities
by Saskia Sassen

Public Policy Instruments of Urban Government
by Patrick Le Galès

Reimagining Urban Politics
by Nigel Thrift

Urban Mobilities
by Vincent Kaufmann

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