Laura Lieto Editor

Yvonne Rydin is Professor of Planning, Environment, and Public Policy at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. She works on a wide range of issues concerning sustainability and planning. Her most recent book is Theory for Planning Research (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). Robert A. Beauregard is Professor Emeritus at Columbia University (USA). He has written extensively on planning theory and urban theory. His most recent books are Advanced Introduction to Planning Theory (Edward Elgar, 2020), Cities in the Urban Age: A Dissent (University of Chicago Press, 2018), and Planning Matter: Acting with Things (University of Chicago Press, 2015). Marco Cremaschi is Professor of Urban Planning at SciencesPo, Paris. His research insists on a comparative approach to large urban projects in cities, focusing on Rome, Buenos Aires, and Kolkata; the local development of weak economy regions; and the reception of refugees in European metropolitan areas. His last book is Culture and Policy-Making. Pluralism, Performativity, and Semiotic Capital (co-auth. with C. Fioretti, T. Mannarini, S. Salvatore: Springer, 2020). Laura Lieto is a Professor of Urban Planning at Federico II University, Napoli (Italy). Laura is a planning theorist and an urban ethnographer. Her work focuses on urban informality, transnational urbanism, and planning regulation. Her most recent publications include "Star Architecture as Socio-material Assemblage” (2020) and “Planning for the Hybrid Gulf City” (2019).