Series directed by Rosa Tamborrino (AISU President) and Luca Mocarelli (AISU Vice President)

Scientific Committee
AISU Board of Directors

The aim of the Insights collection is to present studies treating very broad topics in urban history on which recent developments in research into the multiple branches of the field have been drawing new findings. Its volumes are designed to be inclusive of a considerable number of contributions reflecting the various and varied geographies, aspects and connections, segments and priorities revealed by research responding to a specific impetus for that given theme at that particular moment.
All papers to be published will undergo Double Peer Review.

"The global city - The urban condition as a pervasive phenomenon"

The book is composed of nearly four hundred essays arranged in seven thematic sections which in turn are divided by fifty-five chapters, each of which opens with reflections and comments that clarify the objectives and purposes of the essays included. The book is edited by Marco Pretelli, Ines Tolic, Rosa Tamborrino.