Urban Informality: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

Maria Vittoria Ferroni is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Sciences at the Sapienza University of Rome, where she teaches Administrative Law. Since 2013, she is Member of the Doctoral Board of Public, Comparative and International Law. Since 2016, she is Coordinator of the Environmental Law Observatory of giustamm.it and Member of the Italian Association of Urban Planning Law (AIDU). Since 2019, she coordinates the multidisciplinary research group cities in transition, urban regeneration, civic engagement, and institutions at the origin of this book.

Rossana Galdini is Associate Professor of Sociology of Environment and Territory at the Department of Social and Economic Sciences at Sapienza University of Rome, where she teaches Urban Sociology and Sociology of Environment and Territory. Her main research fields are concerned with the city as a mix of social dynamics, architectural forms, and productive structures. She is Member of the DoctoralSchool of Applied Social Sciences at Sapienza University. She is Author and Co-author of several national and international articles and publications. She coordinates the interdisciplinary research: "Towards a new culture-centered city. Strategies and practices for a high quality urban sustainable development".

Giovanni Ruocco is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Sciences of Sapienza University of Rome, where he teaches Political Thought of Colonisation and Decolonisation and Democracy and Critique of Contemporary Societies. He is Member of the Board of Doctorate in Political Studies. He studies the political thought of the modern and contemporary age, with particular attention to conceptual problems, the doctrines of races and racism, and reflection on the forms of democratic participation. With other colleagues, he published three volumes on the idea of the people in the history of modern and contemporary thought and is preparing the fourth.

Maria Vittoria Ferroni是羅馬大學政治科學系的副教授，教授行政法。自2013年起，她擔任公共、比較和國際法博士委員會的成員。自2016年起，她擔任giustamm.it環境法觀察所的協調員，並且是意大利城市規劃法協會（AIDU）的成員。自2019年起，她負責協調多學科研究小組，該小組研究城市轉型、城市再生、公民參與和本書的起源。

Rossana Galdini是羅馬大學社會經濟科學系的環境和領土社會學副教授，教授城市社會學和環境和領土社會學。她的主要研究領域涉及城市作為社會動態、建築形式和生產結構的結合。她是羅馬大學應用社會科學博士學院的成員。她是多篇國內外文章和出版物的作者和合著者。她負責協調跨學科研究項目：“走向以文化為中心的新城市。高質量城市可持續發展的策略和實踐”。

Giovanni Ruocco是羅馬大學政治科學系的副教授，教授殖民和去殖民的政治思想以及當代社會的民主和批判。他是政治研究博士學位委員會的成員。他研究現代和當代時期的政治思想，特別關注概念問題、種族和種族主義學說，以及對民主參與形式的反思。他與其他同事合著了三卷本關於現代和當代思想中的民族概念的書籍，並正在準備第四卷。