Addressing the New Urban Question

Abstract

to Secchi, cities worldwide are facing a New Urban Question,
which entails the problems concerning social inequalities that go together with
spatial injustices in our cities along with the issues related to climate change
and the idea that mobility should become a right for every citizen. These social
discrepancies are visible in the slums of the global south but also in the European
peripheries. The causes of these social discrepancies are the consequences
of the neoliberalization of planning and the fi nancialization of housing. In this
context, more and more people are unable to exert their right to the city.
Moreover, due to urbanization and the complex processes present in our cities,
peripheries can no longer be defi ned as the “outer edge of a city”. Peripherality has
become a multifaceted issue that is present in our cities.
This thesis aims to develop a strategic framework for the peripheries of the
Metropolitan City of Milan. The latter will be done by understanding where
the peripheral conditions appear in the Metropolitan City of Milan and who
are excluded. Moreover, it seeks to understand why those peripheral conditions
appear by looking at the processes of peripheralization. The idea is that
those aspects will contribute to forming a strategic framework that can be more
inclusive.
In the wider context, this thesis wants to add to the discourse how the different
kinds of peripheral conditions infl uence each other and foster the exclusion of
people.