Criminal accumulation by dispossession
The paper discusses the infiltration of mafia-type organised crime groups (OCGs) in property development, with a particular focus on peripheral …
Categoria: Papers in English
A fine-grained understanding of informality
This article focuses on the role of subjective meanings in the production of informal housing. It argues that, although individual …
Reconceptualising housing emptiness beyond vacancy and abandonment
The academic reflection on different manifestations of building emptiness is broad, intersecting the last sixty years of various debates on …
Placing the law
Tthe paper aims to contribute to the theoretical investigation of the nexus between law and space in the field of …
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 the following paper: Devlin, R. T. (2018). Asking ‘Third World questions’ of First World informality: …
Beyond proper political squatting
The public and academic debate about urban squatting in Western cities has been dominated by research on collectively organized, politically-motivated …
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 …
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 …