The Urban Contract

Paolo Perulli is full professor of Economic Sociology, University of Eastern Piedmont, Department of Jurisprudence, Political, Economic and Social Sciences (Italy), and professor of Urban Sociology, Architecture Academy of Mendrisio, (Switzerland). He has been visiting scholar at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning of MIT, Cambridge (Mass.) in 1984-5 and professeur invité at the Facultè Jean Monnet of Université de Paris Sud in 1993-4. His main research topics have included: Metropolitan Atlas (Bologna 1992 and Madrid 1995), Global Networks and Nation-States (Zurich 1999), The City of Networks (Turin 2000), The City: a socio-philosophical lexicon (Mendrisio 2004). His recent books have been published by Einaudi, Il Mulino and Mendrisio Academy Press.

Introduction 1. The Global Transformations of the Urban World 2. The European Urban Contract 3. The North American Urban Contract 4. The Asian Urban Contract 5. The Urban Space and Deliberative Democracy 6. The Common Matrix Conclusions: Tools for the Globalizing Urban World Bibliography Index