Staff:Alessandro Coppola

Alessandro Coppola is Assistant Professor in urban planning at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies at Politecnico di Milano. His research interests include urban policies and governance, urban resilience, urban informality, urban shrinkage. More recent researches have focused on territorial crisies and peripheralisations processes. His work was featured on national and international journals including Urban Geography, Urban Studies, Geografiska Annales, European Planning Studies, Progress in Planning, Journal of Urban Sustainable Development. He has had research and teaching appointments as well as visiting scholarship at several institutions including Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Cleveland State University, Università di Roma 3, Università della Svizzera Italia, University of Cà Foscari of Venice, Gran Sasso Science Insititute in L'Aquila, Center for social studies in Coimbra and the Mistra center at the University of Goteborg.