The Legal and Political Geography of Pluralism
Pluralism – and the connected questions of toleration – is today a crucial theoretical and practical problem in need of …
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Global self-urbanism
A common thread links the buildings occupied by housing rights movements in Rome to the gated communities for the super-rich …
The production of informal space
The paper analyses the plurality of urban informal practices that characterize contemporary Italy in the sphere of housing, focusing on …
Juggling the formal and the informal
This paper focuses on the informal occupation of public housing in Naples (Italy), analysing a specific mechanism, the fraudulent takeover, …
Immigrants, mosques and religious pluralism
In recent years the steady flow of immigrants from other lands and cultures has greatly increased social pluralism (points of …
The transfer of development rights in the midst of the economic crisis
The paper deals with the transfer of development rights (TDR) in Italy. It presents a comparative analysis of the TDR …
Formal Institutions and the Production of Informal Urban Spaces
The paper provides an introductory theoretical framework for this special issue. Firstly, the main weaknesses of the traditional ‘geography of …
Corruption in land-use issues
This paper deals with the question of corruption in the field of land-use planning. To curb the insidious spread of …
Zoning-integrative and zoning-alternative transferable development rights
Transferable development rights (TDRs) have been in use for several decades; yet to date they have always had a very …
International Housing Policy for the Urban Poor
This paper conducts a review of the main housing policies for informal settlements and the poor in the so-called Global …