Socio-Spatial Dynamics in Mediterranean Europe

José M. Feria-Toribio has been Tenure Professor of Human Geography at the Universities of Seville, Huelva and, since 2002, at the Pablo de Olavide University, Sevilla, Spain. He has a PhD in Geography from the University of Seville and Master of City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania, USA, founded by a Fulbright scholarship. His work as principal researcher covers more than thirty projects related to urban and metropolitan processes, on the one hand, and heritage and territorial development, on the other. It encompasses national, regional and international projects. He has more than a hundred and fifty publications in the form of monographs, journal articles and collective editions in relation to these topics. Among the publications, articles in Spanish and foreign scientific journals should be noted, with a majority in JCR and Scopus journals. Likewise, he has participated and participates in numerous  Regional Spatial and City Land-use plans and Urban Strategic plans. He is also the author of an extensive corpus of policy oriented reports for public administrations in the aforementioned fields.Ricardo Iglesias-Pascual is associate professor in the Department of Geography, History and Philosophy at the Pablo de Olavide University. He holds a PhD in Geography and a degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology. His research focuses on two main areas: the qualitative analysis of perceptions and social imaginaries and their influence on socio-spatial processes, migrations and residential segregation in the city.  From a quantitative approach, he analyses the socio-environmental and political factors involved in the growing processes of social inequality. He has participated in different national and international conferences, has published and reviewed papers in prestigious journals such as Cities, Population Space and Place, Political Geography, or Journal of Ethnics and Migration Studies. He is currently a member of the editorial boardof Journal of Regional Research and of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.Federico Benassi is assistant Professor in Demography at the Department of Political Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Italy. Previously, he was a researcher at the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat). He graduated with honours from the University of Pisa and received his Ph.D. in "Demography and Economics of Geographical Areas" from the University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy.  His research interests include spatial demography, human mobility (migration and commuting), residential segregation and spatial inequalities, urban growth and regional demographic development, and foreign presence in Italy. On these issues he published in some of the major international journals and participated as a lecturer to national and international conference and meetings. Currently, he is part of the Editorial Board of “International Journal of Population Studies” and of “Spatial Demography”.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Section 1: Metropolitan Processes in a Changing Context.- Chapter 2. Metropolitan dynamic in the Spanish urban system. two decades of cyclical context and crisis.- Chapter 3. Residential mobility within the Italian metropolitan areas in the 2000s. A territorial focus on Rome and Milan.- Chapter 4. Suburbanization and centralization dynamics in the social reconfiguration of metropolitan space.- Chapter 5. Loyalty towards metropolitan public transport and COVID-19 pandemic: Insights from Madrid Region.- Section 2: Perspectives for the analysis of metropolitan territories.- Chapter 6. Cities and COVID-19. Reflections on a new research agenda for the cities of tomorrow.- Chapter 7. Urban Flight or Stagnation? Patterns of residential migration in post-covid Spain.- Chapter 8. Centrality analysis in urban-rural spatial networks: Contributions to the study of metropolitan areas.- Chapter 9.  Bioregional agroecological planning: keys to building territorialized and multifunctional agrifood systems.- Chapter 10. Sources of cartographic information for analysing the physical structure of the contemporary city. Similarities and differences between the Corine Land Cover and the Information System for Land Occupation in Spain.- Section 3: Divided city, dual society: the role of the host society in the process of social integration and the maintenance of disadvantaged and vulnerable areas.- Chapter 11. Migrant populations, residential segregation and spatial disparities in Southern Europe.- Chapter 12. A qualitative reflection on social attitudes and residential segregation of immigrants in Spain.- Chapter 13. Rethinking residential mobility in a context of precariousness: disadvantage and downward trajectories in Madrid and Barcelona.- Chapter 14. Divided cities? The spatial footprint of social policies.- Chapter 15. Immigration, wealth and discontent in the Spanish metropolitan space. The robustness of spatial approaches in studying the electoral rise of the extreme right.- Section 4. Building the metropolis: governance, actors and experiences.- Chapter 16. Metropolitan governance in Madrid: Institutionalization and Models from a policy perspective.- Chapter 17. A strategic planning approach: A new framework for metropolitan governance.- Chapter 18. The development of Metropolitan Bilbao from the point of view of strategic urban planning: present and future challenges.- Chapter 19. Urban Agenda and Metropolitan Governance in Pamplona: Lessons from a Multi-Level and Multi-Actor Process.- Chapter 20. The Zaragoza Urban Agenda: an opportunity to design the city and its surroundings.