NUEcity (New Urban Economies) in three Italian metropolitan cities: Milano, Bologna e Palermo

Principal Investigator: Laura Sartori

NUECity studies New Urban Economies (NUEs) which are diverse innovative economic activities happening in a specific urban relational ecosystem that offers a bouquet of physical and digital infrastructures along with perspicuous and innovative urban lifestyles. Taking into consideration literature on both lifestyles and platforms, we define NUEs as place-based relational ecosystem emerging at the intersection of urban-bound lifestyles and platforms in light of the ongoing digital transformation.

Website: https://site.unibo.it/nue/en  

Members of the Department

Laura Sartori

Other members 

Conferences, lectures and talks

2024 August 10th – Montreal (CA) – American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting - Montreal - Economic Sociology Roundtable 12. Places and Economy. Paper: Varieties of New Urban Economies (NUEs) in Three Italian Cities: Milano, Bologna and Palermo 

2024 August 28th – Porto (PT) - European Sociological Association (ESA) - 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association - Tension, Trust and Transformation. Paper: Lifestyles and New urban economies: empirical evidence from 6 Italian Metropolitan Areas 

2024 October 11th – Bologna (IT) - Associazione Italiana di sociologia (AIS) - Sezione Politica - Annual Conference of the Italian Sociological Association - Politics Section. Paper: New Urban Economies (NUEs) and social change: Assessing the impact of urban lifestyles and platforms on democracy and sustainable living 

2024 December 6th – Roma (IT)– Associazione Italiana di sociologia (AIS) - Sezione Sociologia del territorio e dell'ambiente. Sessione 4: Mobilità sostenibile, reti, infrastrutture e trasformazioni territoriali. Paper: PNRR e nuove economie urbane (NUE). Un’analisi comparata su tre casi di studio: Palermo, Bologna e Milano - 

2025 January 30th – Pavia  (IT)– Società Italiana di Sociologia Economica (SISEC). 

Panel 8.44. Città sostenibili. Organizers: Laura Azzolina, Francesca Forno e Angelo Salento. 

Paper 1: Le politiche per la promozione di nuove economie urbane (NUE). Un’analisi comparata su tre casi di studio: Palermo, Bologna e Milano 

Paper 2: L’innovazione eco-sociale in tempo di policrisi: il caso di Milano. 

Paper 3: Varieties of consumption practices and New Urban Economies (NUEs): the cases of Milano, Bologna and Palermo 

2025 April 24th – Manchester (UK)  – British Sociological Association (BSA) Annual Conference –Stream: Cities, Mobilities, Place & Space. Paper: Lifestyles and New urban economies (NUEs): are we at the forefront of a new Polanyian countermovement?