Informal Housing of the Rich
While research has put the spotlight on analysing informality of the urban poor in the global South, informal housing practices …
Le regole dell’informalità abitativa
L’articolo presenta i risultati di una ricerca etnografica condotta nel complesso di case popolari del rione De Gasperi a Ponticelli, …
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 many shades of grey in urban governance
Most research on urban planning, policy and development only considers legal practices and actors, and treats illegal ones as insignificant …
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 …
Migrants, Religion and Residential Segregation
This article investigates residential segregation at the intraurban level of migrants in two Italian cities, Rome and Milan, considering religion …
Inverse Planning in the Cracks of Formal Land Use Regulation
This paper focuses on a case of ‘non-public planning’ in an informal neighbourhood of Maputo, Mozambique. Here, several residents undertook …
The Dark Side of Urban Informality in the Global North
This article deals with housing illegality/informality in Italy, where it represents an established aspect of urban development. It presents a …