Alberto Vanolo

Alberto Vanolo, PhD in spatial planning, is researcher and lecturer in politico-economic geography at the University of Turin, Italy. His latest book (co-author Ugo Rossi) is Urban political geographies. A global perspective, Sage, 2012.

Whose smart city?

The proliferation of 'smart' solutions to a deluge of political and economic problems in today's cities may well serve to reinforce urban inequality at a time when new radical alternatives are in desperate need.

By Alberto Vanolo

/ 8 Apr 2014