Global self-urbanism
A common thread links the buildings occupied by housing rights movements in Rome to the gated communities for the super-rich …
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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 …