The professor of Regional and Urban Economy Josep Sorribes (Valencia, 1951), “referent” in this area in the Valencian Community, has passed away this past morning at the age of 72. He was full professor of the Department of Economic Structure of the University of Valencia and specialist in regional and urban economics.
Sorribes’ career has been linked to the analysis and research of the history and current situation of the city of Valencia and its metropolitan area, a task that he has combined with theoretical analysis and experiences from other places with the economic, social and economic reality. politics of their immediate environment.
Author of numerous articles, collective and author’s books, his bibliography highlights Capitalist Development and Urbanization Process in the Valencian Country 1960-1975, Understanding and Managing the City, The Desired City. Valencia between the past and the future, Las Áreas Metropolitanas: theoretical analysis and comparative experience, Las ciudades del Siglo XXI: the challenge of sustainability, A Country of Cities or the Cities of a Country, Rita Barberá: the empty thought, Valencia 1808-1991: in Traffic in Great City and Valencia: a city that can obviously be improved.
Between 1983 and 1988 he served as chief of staff of the then mayor of Valencia, the socialist Ricard Pérez Casado. He also collaborated in the newspaper El País and participated in other publications.
The City Council of Xàtiva (Valencia), in a message published on social networks, has mourned the death of Sorribes, “a figure of great intellectual stature and key to understanding the urban economy in our territory”, and has conveyed its condolences to the family. from teacher.
The one who was director of the Valencian Institute of Finance (IVF) between 2015 and 2023, Manuel Illueca, has joined, via social networks, the expressions of affection after the death of the professor, whom he has described as a “reference of the economy urban in the Valencian Community, both in the academic and professional spheres”.
“Un gran mestre i una gran persona” (a great teacher and a great person), the former Minister of Finance Vicent Soler has written on his profile on X (formerly Twitter).
Likewise, the Compromís senator and former president of Les Corts Valencianes, Enric Morera, highlighted that Sorribes was an “enlightened and brilliant thinker” with ideas “advanced for our time, and now even more so, with so much involution.” “We will miss the economist, geographer and thinker. Rest in peace, friend,” he added.
