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 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.
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’, …
Le comunità contrattuali potrebbero in particolare essere un elemento fondamentale di un modello improntato ad una forma radicale di sussidiarietà orizzontale
Cosa conosciamo della relazione che lega spazio e povertà? Come si distribuisce la povertà sul territorio? Quali politiche possono mitigare i possibili effetti negativi tra povertà di aree e povertà di individui o sostenerne i potenziali legami positivi?
The question of “pluralism” is different in public spaces and in private spaces.
The necessity of public space is above all dependent upon its ‘functional’ value, whereas its ‘symbolic’ value is merely secondary
