teaches City Models and Urban Policies at the Faculty of Sociology of the “Federico II” University of Naples. Her works include Parentela ed emigrazione (Einaudi, 1981), and Reti (Donzelli, 2001). She is the co-author of Comuni nuovi (Il Mulino, 2002), and recently edited, with Francesco Ramella, the volume Patti sociali per lo sviluppo (Donzelli, 2008) and, with Giampaolo Nuvolati, the volume La città: bisogni, desideri, diritti (Franco Angeli, 2009).