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
This article investigates illegal housing for upper-income residents in the protected forest area of the eastern hills of Bogotá
Il saggio indaga la peculiare pratica di occupazione informale degli alloggi pubblici a Napoli, il subentro informale
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
This paper addresses the role of illegal actors and practices in urban governance in the Italian context, using urban regime theory as the theoretical frame of reference.
The paper analyses the plurality of urban informal practices that characterize contemporary Italy in the sphere of housing
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’
This article investigates residential segregation at the intraurban level of migrants in Rome and Milan, considering religion as a point of reference
This chapter examines the immigrant influx from a thematic viewpoint – namely, the placement and construction of buildings of a religious nature – and from the specific geographical viewpoint of Italy.
This article deals with housing illegality/informality in Italy, where it represents an established aspect of urban development. It presents a case study focused on Desio, a town close to Milan in northern Italy. Here housing illegality occurs by virtue of the well‐established presence of a mafia‐type criminal organization (the ‘Ndrangheta).
This paper focuses on a case of ‘non-public planning’ in an informal neighbourhood of Maputo, Mozambique. Here, several residents undertook some planning duties (e.g. drawing up a detailed plan) in order to regularise their informal dwellings in lieu of the Municipality, due to its inertia. This was an attempt to …