Francesca Governa

Francesca Governa is an urban geographer and Full Professor of economic and political geography at DIST, with a PhD in Spatial Planning. She is part of the Academic Board of the PhD in Urban and Regional Development. She is involved in research activities at national and international level on four main issues: local development processes and policies; urban margins and spatial justice; urban development and the rescaling of the urban realm; Urban China and urbanization processes in the Global South. She has carried out fieldworks in European, North African and Chinese cities. She was curator, with Michele Bonino and Samuele Pellecchia, of the exhibition “China Goes Urban. The City to Come.” and Scientific Director of “Rescaling the Belt and Road Initiative: urbanization processes, innovation patterns and global investments in urban China” for which she won the PRIN.