ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI

Archive of Urban and Regional Studies (Archivio di Studi Urbani e Regionali) was launched in 1968 by: Laura Balbo, Paolo Ceccarelli, Ada Becchi, Pietro L. Fano, Francesco Indovina, Bernardo Secchi, Guglielmo Zambrini.

The journal was founded in 1968 to provide a forum for inter-disciplinary debate on social change, its particular modality, and the effects it has on urban and territorial organisation. Due to its scientific outlook it publishes mainly research reports and reflections on specific disciplinary aspects, as well as forays into different areas of social science, reviews of the latest literature and papers of original thought.

The editorials express 'contentious' points of view on the most salient aspects of current political and cultural debate. The themes the journal addresses generally involve examination of the diverse aspects of social change, usually approached from a territorial viewpoint. Among the subjects covered most by contributors, all of whom are selected by the journal's editorial body, are issues inherent in the imbalance between territories; the characteristics and effects of the social and economic processes at work within cities and society; the evolutionary form of territorial areas and metropolitan zones, their features and relative problems, such as mobility, malaise, immigration. The main aims of the Archivio are: to promote disciplinary knowledge of the various issues that touch a territory and aid understanding of its dimensions and manifestations; to provide updates, as well as a voice for new interpretations or innovative approaches to social and economic processes.

The main target audience of Archive of Urban and Regional Studies (Archivio di Studi Urbani e Regionali) is the academic sector - researchers, economists, sociologists, territorial experts, urban planners, students of the respective disciplines - but also targeted are administrators and public decision makers interested in social change and the evolution of territorial usage and construction.

General editor
Laura Fregolent (laura.fregolent@iuav.it | Università IUAV di Venezia); Michelangelo Savino (michelangelo.savino@unipd.it | Università degli Studi di Padova)

Executive board
Matteo Basso (Università Iuav di Venezia); Maurizio Busacca (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia); Catherine Dezio (Università degli Studi di Padova)

Scientific board
Manuel Aalbers (KU Leuven); Angela Barbanente (Politecnico di Bari); Cristina Bianchetti (Politecnico di Torino); Hiba Bou Akar (Columbia University); Manuel Castells (University of Southern California); Carlo Cellamare (Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"); Marco Cremaschi (Sciences Po); Simin Davoudi (Newcastle University); Chrisna Du Plessis (University of Pretoria); Reid Ewing (University of Utah); Valeria Fedeli (Politecnico di Milano); Nick Gallent (University College London); Enrico Gualini (Technische Universität Berlin); Clara Irazábal Zurita (University of Maryland); Roger Keil (York University – Toronto); Giovanni Laino (Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II"); Jacques Lévy (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne); Oriol Nel.lo i Colom (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona); Arturo Orellana Ossandón (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile); Dominique Rivière (Université Paris Citè); Federico Savini (University of Amsterdam); Giovanni Semi (Università degli Studi di Torino); Erik Swyngedouw (The University of Manchester); Carlo Trigilia (Università degli Studi di Firenze); Alfonso Valenzuela Aguilera (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos); Gianfranco Viesti (Università degli studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”); Joan Vicente i Rufí (Universitat de Girona); Moira Zellner (Northeastern University – Boston)

Editorial board
Abel Albet i Mas (abel.albet@uab.cat | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona); Marina Adriana Arena (arena.adriana@unime.it | Università degli Studi di Messina); Francesca Decimo (francesca.decimo@unitn.it | Università degli Studi di Trento); Gianfranco Franz (gianfranco.franz@unife.it | Università degli Studi di Ferrara); Adriana Galderisi (adriana.galderisi@unicampania.it | Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanivitelli”); Francesco Gastaldi (fgastaldi@libero.it | Università IUAV di Venezia); Beniamino Murgante (murgante@unibas.it | Università degli Studi della Basilicata); Mario Paris (mario.paris@unibg.it | Università degli Studi di Bergamo); Camilla Perrone (camilla.perrone@unifi.it | Università degli Studi di Firenze); Laura Pogliani (laura.pogliani@polimi.it | Politecnico di Milano); Antonio Raciti (antonio.raciti@uniroma1.it | Sapienza Università di Roma); Ombretta Romice (ombretta.r.romice@strath.ac.uk | University of Strathclyde Glasgow); Simone Rusci (simone.rusci@unipi.it | Università di Pisa); Nicola Tollin (nto@iti.sdu.dk | University of Southern Denmark); Stefania Tonin (tonin@iuav.it | Università IUAV di Venezia); Alberto Vanolo (alberto.vanolo@unito.it | Università degli Studi di Torino)

Ethics Committee
Matteo Basso e Laura Fregolent (Università IUAV di Venezia); Maurizio Busacca (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia); Catherine Dezio e Michelangelo Savino (Università degli Studi di Padova)

Editorial office
Michelangelo Savino
michelangelo.savino@unipd.it
Giudecca, 483
30133 Venezia

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ANVUR. Scientific journal for the competition areas:
• Area 8 – Architettura;
• Area 11 – Scienze storiche, filosofiche, pedagogiche e psicologiche;
• Area 13 – Scienze economiche e statistiche;
• Area 14 – Scienze politiche e sociali.

ANVUR. Classe A:
• Area 8/C1 – Design e progettazione tecnologica dell’architettura;
• Area 8/D1 – Progettazione architettonica;
• Area 8/E1 – Disegno;
• Area 8/E2 – Restauro e storia dell’architettura;
• Area 8/F1 – Pianificazione e progettazione urbanistica e territoriale;
• Area 11/B1 – Geografia;
• Area 14/D1 – Sociologia dei processi economici, del lavoro, dell’ambiente e del territorio dal 2017.

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