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The authors
Alexander Hamedinger
Alexander Hamedinger is economist and urban scholar. He currently holds the position of an associate professor at the Department of Spatial Planning at the TU Wien and is head of the Centre of Sociology within this Department.
His main research areas are: urban and regional govern- ance, urban sociology, sustainable urban development, social inequality and space.
alexander.hamedinger@tuwien.ac.at
Lukas Franta
Lukas Franta is an urban researcher at TU Wien. He is cur- rently a doctorate candidate at the Centre of Sociology, Department of Spatial Planning at TU Wien. His research areas are: urban sociology and urban space, urban gov- ernance and contentious politics. In his doctorate thesis he looks at the interrelation of the governance of urban space and forms of contentious politics, such as protest, urban gardening, and urban commons.
lukas.franta@tuwien.ac.at
Nina Vogel
Dr. Nina Vogel has achieved her doctoral degree in Planning
& Development. Currently she is post-doctoral researcher at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences’ SLU at the Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management in Alnarp, Sweden.
nina.vogel@slu.se
Paschalis A. Arvanitidis
Paschalis Arvanitidis is Assistant Professor of Institutional Economics at the Department of Economics at the Uni- versity of Thessaly. He is an engineer and an economist specializing in institutional economics, urban and regional economics and real estate markets.
parvanit@uth.gr
Fotini Nasioka
Fotini Nasioka is a PhD candidate at the Department of Economics at the University of Thessaly. She is an econ- omist specializing in applied economics and local devel- opment.
Romana Brait
MMag.a Romana Brait works as an economist in the de- partment for economics and statistics within the Austrian Chamber of Labour. In her research, she focuses on the limitations of capitalist production, budgetary issues (par- ticularly the fiscal equalization) and feminist economics.
romana.brait@akwien.at
Katharina Hammer
Mag.a Katharina Hammer works as a sociologist in the de- partment for local politics within the Austrian Chamber of Labour. Main research interests: urban studies, participa- tion processes, socially just city development and public space. She is currently doing her PhD at the University of Vienna.
katharina.hammer@akwien.at
Ioanni Delsante
Dr Delsante received his PhD from the University of Pavia.
He is currently Reader in Urban Design at the University of Huddersfield (UK). Previously, he was Assistant Professor in Architectural and Urban Design at the University of Pa- via. He is currently a member of the Urban Design Group and the Academy of Urbanism and a Chartered Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. An affiliate of the Royal Town Planning Institute, he is a member of the Regional Activities Committee and the International Net- work Core Group for the Yorkshire region (2016-2018). He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Urban Planning and Development. His research interests focus on urban de- sign and the history and theory of cities.
i.delsante@hud.ac.uk.
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Nadia Bertolino
Dr Nadia Bertolino received her PhD in Architecture from the University of Pavia. She is currently a Research Fellow in Architecture at Northumbria University, working on Place and Belonging, a project funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council. She was previously Direc- tor of the Masters in Architectural Design at the Sheffield School of Architecture. Her current research explores top- ics concerning space activism and the role of self-organ- ised communities in challenging conventional practices of urban development.
nadia.bertolino@northumbria.ac.uk
Laura Belik
Laura Belik is an architect and urbanist from São Paulo, Brazil. She holds an MA in Design Studies from Parsons - The New School, where she also worked as part-time fac- ulty. Laura is currently a PhD student in Architecture at UC Berkeley.
laurabelik@berkeley.edu
Sabine Gruber
Mag. Sabine Gruber, M.C.D. holds a Magister degree in Eth- nology and a Masters degree in Community Development.
She worked as a facilitator of participation processes in the field of sustainable urban development and with NGOs for more than ten years. Her research includes democracy, economic alternatives and work. Currently she is a doc- toral student in Economic Sociology at Trier University.
Internet: www.sabine-gruber.at mail@sabine-gruber.at
Astghik Grigoryan
Astghik Grigoryan obtained a master in built environment from KTH, Stockholm and is conducting PhD in Urbanism at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon, Portu- gal. She is a contributor investigator at CIAUD - Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, since De- cember, 2016.
astghik.l.grigoryan@gmail.com
Jenny Paulsson
Dr Jenny Paulsson is an Associate Professor in Real Estate Planning and Land Law at KTH Royal Institute of Technolo- gy in Stockholm, Sweden.
jenny.paulsson@abe.kth.se
