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Torri Research associate
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Phone nunber 02.23995499
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E-mail rtorri@polimi.it
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Career and research areas
Rossana Torri has a degree in Architecture and holds a Ph.D. in Sociology. She collaborates since 2001 with the Laboratory for Social Policies at the Politecnico di Milano, where she also teaches Social Analysis in Urban Contexts. Her main areas of interest are sociology of cities, the social inequalities and their local and spatial dimensions. Other research interests relate to social vulnerability related to housing problems and the homelessness trajectories. Currently his main field of research is the link between social cohesion and urban competitiveness. On this topic she co-edited some books.
Main publications
  • (2010), “Nuove linee di divisione spaziale”, in Ranci C. (a cura di), Città nella rete globale. Competitività e disuguaglianze in sei città europee, Milano: Bruno Mondadori.
  • (2009), (a cura di), Ai margini dello sviluppo urbano. Uno studio su Quarto Oggiaro, (con T. Vitale), Milano: Bruno Mondadori.
  • (2008), “Social Limits to Growth: Competitiveness and Social Cohesion in the European Cities”, XI Eura Conference,Learning Cities in a Knowledge-based Society, Milan, October 9th-11th (con L.     Maestripieri, F. Manfredini, C. Ranci), Santarcangelo di Romagna: Maggioli.
  • (2007), (a cura di), Milano, tra coesione sociale e sviluppo, (con C. Ranci), Milano: Bruno Mondadori.
  • (2006), “Il rischio abitativo. Riflessioni fra teoria e ricerca empirica”, in La Rivista delle Politiche Sociali [Italian Journal of Social Policy], 3(3), 2006, pp. 79-97 , Luglio-Settembre.
  • (2005), “Homelessness as a process: Theoretical Approaches and social construction of the question”, (with A. Tosi), CUHP Final Conference: Research on Homelessness in Comparative Perspective, Brussels, November 3th– 4th,http://www.cuhp.org/admin/EditDocStore/BRX_TOSI-TORRI.pdf.