Metropolitan areas are, due to their complexity, an attractive object of study for social scientists of all specialities. This book is the result of this interest, and brings together different perspectives and approaches from Geography, Sociology, Social Work and Political Science. Specifically, the origin of this set of studies on the most relevant territorial, social and political aspects of metropolitan areas is the 'I International Congress on Metropolitan Sustainability', held in Valencia in 2013. The papers invited to this congress are the ones collected in this book. The origin of this congress is previous, as it is part of the research project "Environmental and social sustainability in metropolitan areas: the case of the metropolitan area of Valencia" developed between 2011 and 2013.... [Leer más...]