Gualini

Enrico Gualini is Professor of Planning Theory and Urban-Regional Policy Analysis at the Institute for Urban and Regional Planning of Technische Universität Berlin. His research interests are the social construction of space and the political dimension of socio-spatial practices, the analysis of spatial development policies, the emergence of governance practices and the resulting challenges for democratic politics and institutions, as well as related theoretical debates. He is currently visiting fellow of the Brussels Centre for Urban Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is founder and coordinator of the AESOP Planning/Conflict thematic group and the editor of Planning and Conflict: Critical Reflections on Contentious Urban Developments (Routledge, 2015) and co-editor of Conflict in the City: Contested Urban Spaces and Local Democracy (Jovis, 2015). He is currently co-editing a volume on the role of economic actors and policies in the construction of metropolitan space (forthc. 2017).