Jill Simone Gross is Professor of Urban Policy at Hunter College, City University of New York, and Director of the Master's program in Urban Policy and Leadership. She is currently collaborating with Hank Savitch on a book about New York entitled New York Megacity: Coping with the Pressures of the 21st Century, to be published in 2021 by Agenda Publishing. Her latest book, J. Gross, E. Gualini, L. Ye (eds.) Constructing Metropolitan Space: Actors, Policies and Processes of Rescaling in World Metropolises (Routledge, 2019), deals with the construction of scales in several countries. More generally, his work focuses on the governance of economic development and migration issues in cities in North America and Western Europe.