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 …
Categoria: Papers in English
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, …
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 …
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 …
The illicit side of urban development
The paper deals with issues of corruption in the planning domain. It centres on thorough analysis of the case of …
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 …
Expatriates and the city
The paper focuses on residential strategies and patterns of highly skilled migrants from Western countries in Moscow. During recent decades, transnational migration …
The transfer of development rights in the midst of the economic crisis
The paper deals with the transfer of development rights (TDR) in Italy. It presents a comparative analysis of the TDR …
Discrete emergence of neoliberal policies on public space
This article investigates the birth and evolution of a Business Improvement District (BID) in Talimhane, Istanbul, which is the first …
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 …