Ugo Rossi

Ugo Rossi is Professor of Economic and Political Geography at the Gran Sasso Science Institute in L’Aquila, Italy, and Visiting Fellow at SciencesPo in Paris, at the Axpo Observatory of Market Society Polarization. Before the Gran Sasso Science Institute, he worked at the universities of Turin and Cagliari in Italy. He obtained his doctorate in Development Geography from the University L’Orientale of Naples. Currently, he is editor of the new journal Dialogues in Urban Research.

The project

Title: A return to state capitalism? Exploring the strategic urbanisation of the state: the French tech initiative

Keywords: Urban governance, technology-driven urban economies, urban commons, regional development, critical theory, radical geography.

Selection of publications

• 2022 (with M. Pinto and L. Recano) “New institutions and the politics of the interstices. Experimenting with face-to-face democracy in Naples”, Urban Studies on-line first: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00420980221091064
• 2022 “The existential threat of urban social extractivism: Urban revival and the extinction crisis in the European South”, Antipode vol. 54 n. 3, pp. 892-913.
• 2020 “Fake friends: The illusionist revision of Western urbanology at the time of platform capitalism”. Urban Studies vol. 57, n. 5, pp. 1105-1117.
• 2020 (with Sami Moisio) “The start-up state: Governing urbanized capitalism”. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space vol. 52, n. 3, pp. 532-552
• 2019 “The common-seekers: Capturing and reclaiming value in the platform metropolis” Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space vol. 37, n. 8, pp. 1418-1433.