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Street art, spazi, media: pratiche di riscrittura urbana
Etnografia giuridica a Ballarò. Per dirottare il verso del sapere
2021
In Palermo, the Law department and a poor bazar of used things share the same square. Even if so closed, the academy and the market ignored and inspect each other with a mutual suspect for a long time. This happened as long as in an academic course an experiment of collaboration between students and merchants has been launched. The aim was to look at the right from the margin and to rewrite the rules together. The produced regulation draft has been used by the Municipality to make the market official. From this experience emerges an idea of university epistemologically humble, able to renounce to the title of knowledge’s monopolist and to activate processes of knowledge co-creation.
The sharing economy as a way to urban commoning
2016
Sharing economy and urban commons are inherently intertwined. New technologies and business models for the production and consumption of goods and services are rapidly transforming cities across the world in many ways: carsharing, ridesharing, short-term rentals, shared housing and workspaces. These not only put into question how urban transportation and tourist accommodation are planned, but also disrupt traditional local services, influence housing affordability and redesigning city spaces, thus often making existing local rules obsolete. These profound changes raise many issues. What kind of city is molded by peer-to-peer activities? Is a sharing economy the way to a commons-based urban …
Le due Algeri di Pontecorvo: spazi sociali nella lotta all’indipendenza
2021
Nel breve saggio si riflette sul ruolo del cinema come mezzo capace di mostrare lo spazio come luogo di lotta politica. Attraverso l’ascolto e la narrazione degli “attori” locali, nell’elaborazione dei loro pensieri, si è costruito il film ma anche una metodologia della ricerca. Pontecorvo affronta il tema della violenza mostrandone tutti i lati oscuri, ne ricostruisce l’escalation senza dimenticare che il centro della storia è la resistenza anticoloniale. Su queste basi, il saggio, mostra come lo spazio di Algeri sia frammentato in due (colonizzatori e colonizzati) e come la lotta sfrutti le caratteristiche topologiche della città
Le vetrine, dispositivo semiotico
2011
Teorie semiotiche sulle vetrine come confine tra città e punto vendita.
Shopping malls and neoliberal trends in Southern European cities: post-metropolitan challenges for urban planning policy
2016
Whilst shopping malls have been explored at length by critical urban studies, there has been little exploration of their role in restructuring the practice of urban and spatial planning. This article uses the shopping mall as an object of study in the light of the neoliberal trends and post-metropolisation in Southern Europe, with the aim of exploring challenges for urban governance and planning practice and with a focus on the role of the ongoing economic crisis. A threefold exploratory framework – the ‘lost-in-time scenario’, the ‘messianic mall model’ and the ‘(im)mature planning explanation’ – is used to make sense of the local versions of shopping mall development in Lisbon (Portugal) …
Il gesto comparativo negli studi urbani critici
2021
Non tutte le città sono uguali tra loro, ma i processi che si verificano al loro interno sono assimilabili e analizzabili grazie a modelli più o meno universali. O almeno, per molti anni così si è sostenuto: più anni di quanti forse pensiamo, se consideriamo che ancor oggi diversi studiosi di fatti urbani sostengono posizioni universalistiche. Il confronto tra due testi, un classico di Ernest W. Burgess e una lettura più recente e alternativa di Jennifer Robinson, ha come scopo la messa in discussione di questo tema all’interno degli studi urbani critici. Not all cities are the same, but the processes that occur within them can be assimilated and analyzed thanks to more or less universal mo…