to Secchi, cities worldwide are facing a New Urban Question,
which entails the problems concerning social inequalities that go together with
spatial injustices in our cities along with the issues related to climate change
and the idea that mobility should become a right for every citizen. These social
discrepancies are visible in the slums of the global south but also in the European
peripheries. The causes of these social discrepancies are the consequences
of the neoliberalization of planning and the fi nancialization of housing. In this
context, more and more people are unable to exert their right to the city.
Moreover, due to urbanization and the complex processes present in our cities,
peripheries can no longer be defi ned as the “outer edge of a city”. Peripherality has
become a multifaceted issue that is present in our cities.
This thesis aims to develop a strategic framework for the peripheries of the
Metropolitan City of Milan. The latter will be done by understanding where
the peripheral conditions appear in the Metropolitan City of Milan and who
are excluded. Moreover, it seeks to understand why those peripheral conditions
appear by looking at the processes of peripheralization. The idea is that
those aspects will contribute to forming a strategic framework that can be more
inclusive.
In the wider context, this thesis wants to add to the discourse how the different
kinds of peripheral conditions infl uence each other and foster the exclusion of
people.

This book addresses the need to re-imagine and re-conceptualise the Just City in light of recent systemic shocks: climate change, the pandemic, a generalised erosion of democratic standards and more. It contains texts by a number of guests and 43 manifestos written by students from 25 universities from all over the world. A "Manifesto for the Just City" comes in the wake of the realisation that socio-spatial justice is a crucial dimension for sustainability transitions. Growing inequality and the erosion of the public sphere undermine the social and political structures required to fight climate change, pandemics and other systemic shocks. With this book, we have sought to encourage students to formulate their own visions for the Just City and for a just transition. This book is result of an Urban Thinkers Campus organised between 9 and 30 November 2020. The Urban Thinkers Campus (UTC) model is an initiative of UN-Habitat's World Urban Campaign, conceived in 2014 as an open space for critical exchange between stakeholders and partners. It aims to promote debate and action on sustainable and inclusive urbanization upholding the principles and guidelines contained in the New Urban Agenda, launched at Habitat-III in 2016 in Quito, Ecuador.

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