Milan: Productions, Spatial Patterns and Urban Change

Simonetta Armondi is a researcher in political and economic geography, and Professor of Urban and Regional Analysis at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Her research and teaching activities focus on the geography of urban change related to economic restructuring, contemporary capitalisms and urban policies. Stefano Di Vita is a Research Fellow and adjunct Professor at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, where he carries out research and teaching activities in the fields of regional and urban planning and design. His main interests concern phenomena and tools of urban change processes supported by both ordinary and extraordinary projects.

• Introduction 1. Which Milan? Setting the scene for reflecting urban decline, resilience, and change 2. Urban regionalization and metropolitan resurgence: discontinuity and persistence of a spatial dialectic 3. The attractiveness of Milan and the spatial patterns of international firms4. Creative production and urban regeneration in Milan5. Sharing economy: makerspaces, co-working spaces, hybrid workplaces, and new social practices 6. Forms of urban change. Nodes of knowledge-based networks as drivers of new metropolitan patterns in Southern Milan 7. Urban change and geographies of production in North East Milan 8. Urban change and innovation of functions and productions in the north-western transect of the Milan urban region 9. Territorial infrastructures and new production places 10. The last cycle of Milan urban policies and the prospects for a new urban agenda