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Roberta Cucca

Roberta Cucca

Professor

  • Department of Urban and Regional Planning

I am a Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, where I teach Urban Sociology. Prior to this, I held positions as a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Vienna, an Assistant Professor at the Polytechnic of Milan, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto. My research primarily focuses on socio-spatial inequalities in European cities and urban governance for just transitions, with particular interest in green gentrification and school segregation. Currently, I lead the NMBU team involved in the EU Horizon Project RehousIn, which investigates housing inequalities in the context of the green transition. I serve on the board of RC21 (Urban and Regional Development) in the International Sociological Association.

  • Publications

    List of publications from my research. (Cristin)

    2025 - Cavicchia, R.; Cucca, R., Desegregating through densification? Potential and limitations in the case of Oslo, in “Urban Studies”, Forthcoming.

    2025 - Cucca, R.; Mouratidis, K., School segregation, residential patterns, and the role of school choice in an egalitarian system. The case of Oslo, Norway, in “Urban Research & Practice”, pp. 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/17535069.2025.2479619

    2023 - Kazepov, Y.; Ahn, B.; Cucca, R., The ‘European City’ at the Crossroads: Four Analytical Elements for Understanding Convergence and Differentiation, in “Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie”. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/tesg.12605

    2023 - Di Marino, M.; Cucca, R.; Thaler, T.; Bügelmayer-Blaschek, M., Interlinking the silos: how to stimulate a new debate on more greenery in cities, in “Urban Forestry & Urban Greening”, 128065, ISSN 1618-8667. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2023.128065

    2023 - Cucca, R.; Kazepov, Y.; Villa, M., Towards a Sustainable Welfare System? The Challenges and Scenarios of Eco-social Transitions, in “Politiche Sociali / Social Policies”, 1/2023, pp. 3–26. https://doi.org/10.7389/107136

    2023 - Cucca, R.; Friesenecker, M.; Thaler, T., Green Gentrification, Social Justice and Climate Change in the Literature: Conceptual Origins and Future Directions, in “Urban Planning”, Vol. 8, Issue 1. https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v8i1.6129

    2022 - Kazepov, Y.; Barberis, E.; Cucca, R.; Mocca, E. (Eds), Handbook of Urban Social Policies. International Perspectives on Multilevel Governance and Local Welfare, Edward Elgar Publishing.

    2022 - Friesenecker, M.; Cucca, R., Potential and limitations of innovative housing solutions in planning for degrowth: the case of Vienna, in “Local Environment”. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2021.1872513

    2017 - Cucca, R.; Ranci, C. (Eds), Unequal Cities. The challenge of post-industrial transition in times of austerity, Routledge – Taylor & Francis Group. (Nominated for Best Book Prize, Regional Studies Association 2020)

    2016 - Bricocoli, M.; Cucca, R., Social mix and housing policy: local effects of a misleading rhetoric. The case of Milan, in “Urban Studies”, Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 77–91.

    My publications

  • Teaching

    Urban Sociology (APL280)

    Urban sosiologi | NMBU

  • Research and projects