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 …
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, …
The Concept of Neo-Apartheid (Cities): In Defence of Its Restrictive Use
If apartheid is everything, maybe it is nothing Political concepts change meaning in time and space and often take on …
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 …