Three theses on informal housing
This article argues for a more holistic interpretation to housing informality in Europe
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A fine-grained understanding of informality
This article focuses on the role of subjective meanings in the production of informal housing
Criminal accumulation by dispossession
The paper discusses the infiltration of mafia-type organised crime groups (OCGs) in property development, with a particular focus on peripheral areas
Placing the law
The paper contributes to the theoretical investigation of the nexus between law and space in the field of legal geography
Reconceptualising housing emptiness beyond vacancy and abandonment
This paper proposes a precise conceptualisation of the main states of emptiness of housing assets. Four critical conditions are identified: uncompletedness, long-term vacancy, under/un-occupancy, abandonment
Urbicide, neo-colonial subjugation and the Gaza Strip
The article mobilizes the concept of urbicide to read the May 2021 Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
Housing precarity
This paper puts forward the relevance of the concept of precarity in the
investigation of the housing conditions of migrants
Moving beyond informality-of-need and informality-of-desire
This is a comment on a recently published paper on Planning Theory, entitled “Asking ‘Third World questions’ of First World informality”
Beyond proper political squatting
This article focuses on the illegal occupation of public buildings for residential purposes in Italy that occurs outside any explicit political framework
Informal Housing of the Rich
This article investigates illegal housing for upper-income residents in the protected forest area of the eastern hills of Bogotá