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’
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 informality’ are analyzed, including its tendency to focus on urban poverty in the ‘Global South’, to privilege its economic causes, and to treat the phenomenon in terms of clear-cut dichotomies. …