Recent publications

A new policy brief by Silvia Cafora, Jacopo Lareno Faccini, and Tommaso Vitale titled « Policies to Decommodify and Revive the Right to Housing in Italy » was published on the page of Fondazione Feltrinelli. Abstract While the Charter of Fundamental European Rights declares that housing is a fundamental good for leading a dignified life (2002, Art. 34.3), in Italy, the right to housing is not enshrined in the Constitution. The only normative reference is the Constitution’s Article 47, co. 2, which attributes to the Republic the task of favouring the access of popular savings to property. In Italy, the housing culture is based on the principle of home ownership as […]

A new article titled “Autonomie des formes urbaines et périls de l’évolutionnisme” by Côme Salvaire was published in Varia, vol. 34, 2024. 

We are happy to announce the first article of Rocio Calzado titled « Funding the social transformation of housing estates. Environmental ambitions as catalysers of the regeneration of Corviale » and published in European Journal of Spatial Development 21(1).  Abstract: In the 1930s, the modernist urban ideas of democratic access to housing shaped a new architectural housing typology, in the form of high-rise linear blocks. This housing typology was by the beginning of the 1970s considered a proxy for pathologically rooted urban problems. The challenge of governing housing estates has been a pressing issue for some decades, leading to the demolition of some of the […]

A new article titled « Cultivating Urban Agriculture Policies: Local Government Entrepreneurs’ Strategies in Three Brazilian Cities » by Marcela Alonso Ferreira (et al.), was published in open access in Urban Planning, vol. 9, 2024. Abstract: Urban agriculture (UA) is increasingly recognized in policy and academic discussions for its potential to promote sustainable food systems and reduce food insecurity. Due to their proximity to citizens, local governments are well-positioned to advance these initiatives. However, the factors that drive governments in densely populated cities to develop UA policies remain relatively understudied, especially in the Global South. To address this gap, we employ a comparative case study […]

A discussion of Tom Goodfellow’s book Politics and the Urban Frontier (2022) by Côme Salvaire, Graeme Young and the author, available in Urban Studies.