Public Goods versus Economic Interests

Sedlmaier, Alexander; Anders, Freia

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“…Neuwirth (2006), for example, speaks of the squatters that once occupied what became New York’s Central Park (cf. Anders and Sedlmaier 2016; de Soto 2000), while Goff (2016) and Jindrich (2016) have recently amplified America’s history of informal development. Some have even noted in passing that, as a matter of fact, informality does exist in the North, but their focus was elsewhere (Fernandes and Varley 1998; Fischer, McCann, and Auyero 2014; Leaf 2005, 125; Gaffikin, Perry, and Kundu 2011, 310–15; Peattie 1995, 406; Roy 2005, 148).…”

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Modes of Informal Urban Development

Harris

2017

Journal of Planning Literature

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The concept of informality has often been misunderstood. Its, especially, urban character is rarely appreciated. With respect to urban development, it was once thought to distinguish the Global South, a view that is changing, but an alternative has not been systematically articulated. Based on an extensive survey of literatures, this article clarifies the urban character of informality, articulates its global relevance, and proposes a framework for understanding its major modes: latent, diffuse, embedded, overt, and dominant. Their relative frequency distinguishes cities, regions, and nations while their identification facilitates the comparison of places.

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Modes of Informal Urban Development

Harris

2017

Journal of Planning Literature

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Youth Activism in Political Squats between Centri Sociali and Case Occupate

Genova

2018

Societies

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Nowadays a lot of research describes most young people as barely interested in politics, expressing little trust in political institutions and far from any forms of institutional political participation. Moreover, most of the engaged youth are involved in forms of participation described as more civic and social than political, weakly ideological, more and more often digital and developed in virtual space, and usually experienced as one among several components of everyday personal lives. The article explores youth activism in political squats because it is a form of participation which, in countertendency, is political and radical in its aims and strategies, explicitly ideologically inspired, strongly rooted in physical places, and often quite central in everyday personal lives. The text is based on research conducted in the city of Turin (Italy) by means of qualitative interviews, participant observation and document analysis. Four main interconnected thematic dimensions are considered: Individuals’ biographical paths and meanings of activism; distinctive lifestyles and cultural sensitivities among the activists; collective narratives about contemporary society and possibilities of social change; patterns of intervention and forms of organization. On the basis of these analyses, the article maintains that this form of activism can be usefully interpreted as a real lifestyle, which has an explicit and intense political sense, but which young activists also connect with a much wider, more differentiated set of meanings.

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Urban Housing Inequity: Housing Deprivation and Social Response in the City of Naples

Lanza

Martino

2022

Sustainability

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The growth of social inequality in recent decades has a strong urban dimension. In fact, cities are places where such inequalities grow quickly, and have a strong influence on the living conditions and perspectives of different social groups. In this sense, urban segregation becomes an important warning in assessing the existence of disparities that affect the most disadvantaged social groups. Therefore, the aim of this research was to outline the evidence of the phenomenon of residential segregation and housing insecurity on a European scale, and to analyze the case study of Naples, Italy, evaluating the presence of the phenomena of urban segregation and housing insecurity within through the creation of a synthetic index: the “Index of housing deprivation in the neighborhoods of the city of Naples”. After analyzing the extent of the phenomena, we took a step further, seeking to understand whether there have been responses from civil society through protest movements. Indeed, another objective of this paper was to understand why, in the city of Naples, there is no strong social response. In order to give an explanation, we will carry out a comparison with the action of the social movements of Barcelona.

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Public Goods versus Economic Interests

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Modes of Informal Urban Development

Modes of Informal Urban Development

Youth Activism in Political Squats between Centri Sociali and Case Occupate

Urban Housing Inequity: Housing Deprivation and Social Response in the City of Naples

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