Retrat d'Oriol Nel·lo

Professor of Geography

Professor of Geography at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). He has served as Director of the Institute for Metropolitan Studies of Barcelona, Member of the Catalan Parliament and Secretary for Spatial Planning in the Government of Catalonia. 

Among other works, he has authored La ciudad en movimiento: Crisis social y respuesta ciudadana [The city on the move: Social crisis and citizen response] (Díaz & Pons, 2015), Cities in the 21st Century (Routledge, 2016, co-edited with Renata Mele) and Barrios y crisis. Crisis económica, segregación urbana e innovación social en Cataluña [Neighbourhoods and crisis. Economic crisis, urban segregation and social innovation in Catalonia] (Tirant, 2018, coordinated with Ismael Blanco).

Articles by Oriol Nel·lo

Il·lustració © Ana Yael Zareceansky. Dues dones a l'interior d'un laberint fet de vegetació. Cadascuna es troba en un punt que no veu a l'altra i cadascuna talla les plantes amb un talla gespa.
Building the metropolisPublic policies against urban segregation

The trend towards the residential segregation of social groups is materialising, to varying degrees, in every town and city, ours too. The matter of socio-...

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