Mauro Castro Coma

Mauro Castro Coma

Public-Communitarian Partnerships

Public-communitarian alliances, urban commons, militant and social research

Castro (Barcelona, Spain) is an economist and expert on urban political economy and commons. Castro holds a Ph.D. in Political Sciences (UAB), is co-founder of La Hidra Cooperativa, and professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). He has developed consultancy projects in the fields of citizen participation, community management, and social and urban innovation for numerous local administrations. Castro has done research on a variety of topics, such as neoliberal urbanism, urban politics, territorial segregation, processes of participation and democratic innovation at the local level.