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Geographies of energy policies for the ecological transition after Covid-19 Keeping as a background the view that the low-carbon energy transition is fundamentally a geographical-political process, with powerful effects on the configuration of socio-economic models, the article focuses on the following three key issues: (i) The definition of the concept of sustainable energy policy transition, starting from space; (ii) The geographical and spatial dimensions of ecological transition policies in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, looking at structures and scales of energy governance; (iii) Post-Covid spatial strategies by trying to observe the contents of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) in Italy, where, as is happening in other countries, the policy of sustainable energy transitions is now at a critical point, where the scale and directionality favored by the public sector for post-pandemic recovery will be crucial.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- 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 firms -- 4 Creative production and urban regeneration in Milan -- 5 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 -- Index

(Introduction) Making Sense of the Urban Agendas: Studies in the Production and Use of the Urban in Agenda Discourses -- Part I: The Urban Agenda for the European Union: Spatiality, Knowledge, Powers -- Understanding the Emergence of the Spanish Urban Agenda: Towards a New Multi-level Policy Scenario? -- Urban Policies in Portugal -- Gender Impact in the Agenda 2030 -- Part II: Scottish City Regional Deals: A New Type of Multi-level Partnership? -- The Politics of Making Regions - Competitiveness and the Re-presentation of Territoriality in Europe. The Case of the International Øresund Region -- Metropolitan Areas in Italy, Between National Agenda and Local Agendas -- Part III: The Urban Question in German Policy Making -- Metropolitan Development and Governance: the Cases of England and France -- Metropolitanizing a Nordic state? City-regionalist Imaginary and State Territorial Restructuring in Finland -- Part IV: Urban Agenda at the Regional Scale: the Case of Andalusia -- The Implementation of Madrid 2030 Agenda -- Urban Agenda and Metropolitan Governance: the Case of Milan -- Conclusion. Advancing Urban Agenda Research

"COVID-19 has stressed the condition of radical uncertainty that increasingly characterises our times and compels cities to learn new ways to cope with unexpected global urban challenges. The volume proposes preparedness as a key concept in urban geography, planning, and policy, inviting international scholars to discuss its pros and cons. Firstly, it builds a critical theoretical framework around the concept of preparedness in relation to the COVID-19 effects and other interconnected crises. Then, the authors put at work and redefine preparedness, starting from worldwide surveys, research experiences, public discourses and spatial strategies analysis in Europe and, more extensively, in Italy. Finally, the closing section goes beyond the view of preparedness as an emergency tool, proposing to interpret it more broadly as a technology supporting a sustainable urban transition. The book mainly targets academics in urban planning, policy, and geography. However, the prominence of the topic of preparedness makes the volume an essential reading not only within social sciences but further in engineering, basic sciences, and life science. In addition, the book provides directions to practitioners and civic leaders in supporting cities and regions to prepare themselves in the face of pandemics and unpredictable socio-environmental shocks"--

"COVID-19 has stressed the condition of radical uncertainty that increasingly characterises our times and compels cities to learn new ways to cope with unexpected global urban challenges. The volume proposes preparedness as a key concept in urban geography, planning, and policy, inviting international scholars to discuss its pros and cons. Firstly, it builds a critical theoretical framework around the concept of preparedness in relation to the COVID-19 effects and other interconnected crises. Then, the authors put at work and redefine preparedness, starting from worldwide surveys, research experiences, public discourses and spatial strategies analysis in Europe and, more extensively, in Italy. Finally, the closing section goes beyond the view of preparedness as an emergency tool, proposing to interpret it more broadly as a technology supporting a sustainable urban transition. The book mainly targets academics in urban planning, policy, and geography. However, the prominence of the topic of preparedness makes the volume an essential reading not only within social sciences but further in engineering, basic sciences, and life science. In addition, the book provides directions to practitioners and civic leaders in supporting cities and regions to prepare themselves in the face of pandemics and unpredictable socio-environmental shocks"--