ISBN:
9783031298271
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource(VI, 134 p. 1 illus.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2023.
Parallel Title:
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Erscheint auch als
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Keywords:
Urban policy.
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Political science.
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Regional economics.
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Spatial economics.
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Urban economics.
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Sustainability.
Abstract:
Informality: a difficult qualification -- Informality and evolution of the urban space -- Collective action, urban spaces, and common goods: the concept of informality from a sociological perspective -- Informality and democratic innovation: the urban political laboratory -- The legal value of informality for the general interest. The example of cities -- The reuse of assets confiscated from organized crime: how to make the informal formal -- The role of “intangible factors” for local development: policy indications and initial evaluation indicators -- Urban regeneration and informal city in the European framework -- Historicizing urban informality. An opportunity to rethink the study of the contemporary city -- Informality as a way of living in the city. The point of view of urban practices to rethink the categories of urban governance.
Abstract:
This book analyzes the informal practices of contemporary cities through a close dialogue between different research perspectives, with the shared goal of giving voice to informality and evaluating its benefits and potential in a multidimensional key of social factors. Recently, the human sciences have seen the emergence of this new term “informality,” at first sight in conflict with their function of giving order and form to social phenomena. A term with which, in this book, the authors, having as reference the Italian and European experience, specifically identify those unsatisfied social demands and those collective actions “from below” that aim at the recovery of urban space and the renewal of its organization, often not following the trajectories of legality and institutions. By means of a close dialogue between different areas of social research, this book attempts to establish the different declinations and applications of the term, evaluating the causes and effects, benefits, and potential of the phenomena attributable to it, within a multidimensional analysis that calls into question the regeneration and collective use of spaces, political-institutional confrontation and conflict, legal innovation, and social-economic benefits.
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-031-29827-1
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