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Email: agostino.petrillo@polimi.it
Agostino Petrillo graduated in Architecture and Philosophy and holds a PhD in
Sociology. He is Associate Professor of Urban Sociology at the Polytechnic
University of Milan and he is a Board member of the international PhD in
Comparative Urban Studies, URBEUR at the Milan Bicocca University. He
collaborates with numerous reviews, including “Mondi Migranti”, “Filosofia
Politica”, “Sociologia Urbana e Rurale”, “Territorio”. Among his works: La
città perduta. Eclissi della dimensione urbana nel mondo contemporaneo,
Dedalo, Bari 2000; Max Weber e la sociologia della città, FrancoAngeli,
Milan 2001; Città in rivolta. Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, Genova, Ombrecorte,
Verona 2004; Identità urbane in trasformazione, Coedit, Genova 2005;
Villaggi città megalopoli, Carocci, Roma 2006; Peripherein: pensare
diversamente la periferia, FrancoAngeli Milano 2013; La periferia nuova.
Disuguaglianze, spazio, città FrancoAngeli Milano 2018; (with P. Bellaviti)
Sustainable Urban Development and Globalization. New strategies for new
challenges, Springer, Berlin New-York 2018.