Placing the law
The paper contributes to the theoretical investigation of the nexus between law and space in the field of legal geography by proposing an analytical framework for the study of the spatial operativity of law beyond compliance
The Concept of Neo-Apartheid (Cities): In Defence of Its Restrictive Use
Apartheid is an exceptional, heavy concept. This is why it is a restrictive interpretation of neo-apartheid that we should mobilize today to understand current urban phenomena
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
Le regole dell’informalità abitativa
Il saggio indaga la peculiare pratica di occupazione informale degli alloggi pubblici a Napoli, il subentro informale
Global self-urbanism
This chapter will first analyse the birth of self-urbanism and identify its constitutive features. It will then argue that one of the main implications of self-urbanism is the rise of a new institutional fragmentation that overthrows the traditional boundaries drawn by public authorities and fuels spatialised forms of unequal urban citizenship