The production of informal space
The paper analyses the plurality of urban informal practices that characterize contemporary Italy in the sphere of housing
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Juggling the formal and the informal
This paper focuses on the informal occupation of public housing in Naples, analysing a specific case of illegal access which is an alternative to ‘ordinary squatting’
Migrants, Religion and Residential Segregation
This article investigates residential segregation at the intraurban level of migrants in Rome and Milan, considering religion as a point of reference
The multifaceted politics of informality in Jerusalem
The chapter investigates the multifaceted politics of housing informality in Jerusalem arising from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over the city. It stresses the concomitant existence of different kinds of informality in different areas of the city: Palestinian neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem lying on the Israeli (western) side of the ‘security barrier’, …
Expatriates and the city: The spatialities of the high-skilled migrants’ transnational living in Moscow
The paper focuses on residential strategies and patterns of highly skilled migrants from Western countries in Moscow. During recent decades, transnational migration of highly skilled workers has grown and diversified; as a consequence, residential practices and socio-spatial behaviour of this kind of migrants (the so-called ‘expatriates’) in the destination city diversified as …
Governare l’ingovernabile. Politiche degli slum nel XXI secolo
La crescita degli insediamenti informali chiamati comunemente slum è stata irresistibile negli ultimi decenni, fino a costituire una delle caratteristiche salienti delle grandi metropoli contemporanee. Proliferano ovunque, e non solo nei paesi arretrati, periferie misere e autocostruite che circondano le grandi agglomerazioni urbane del pianeta. Ma come è possibile gestire, amministrare, eventualmente …
La casa e il generale
Nel suo libro il generale Vannacci propone un’analisi della questione abitativa che è completamente sbagliata
The space of the conflict in Jerusalem. That is, distinguishing the wood from the trees
In order to fully understand the Sheikh Jarrah’s case, it is necessary to be aware of how, since 1967, Jerusalem has been physically transfigured by a systematic series of urban policies and projects
Vivere in affitto ai tempi del COVID19: la crisi nella crisi
International Housing Policy for the Urban Poor and the Informal City in the Global South
This paper conducts a review of the main housing policies for informal settlements and the poor in the so-called Global South promoted by the main international agencies