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 …
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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 …
Corruption in land-use issues
This paper deals with the question of corruption in the field of land-use planning. To curb the insidious spread of …
Living Together Privately
Chiodelli F., Baglione V. (2013), Living Together Privately: for a Cautious Reading of Cohousing, Urban Research and Practice, 7 (1): 20-34 …
What is really different between cohousing and gated communities?
The paper focuses on differences and similarities between two types of intentional private residential communities: cohousing and gated communities. The …
Zoning-integrative and zoning-alternative transferable development rights
Transferable development rights (TDRs) have been in use for several decades; yet to date they have always had a very …
International Housing Policy for the Urban Poor
This paper conducts a review of the main housing policies for informal settlements and the poor in the so-called Global …
The complex nexus between informality and the law
This article discusses the relations between unauthorised settlements and regulation in the Global South. It starts from the concept of …