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Working on the "dark place" of southern European metropolitan cities. An analysis of informal practices and critique on approaches of public housing …
2018
The debate on housing practices of self-help mainly focalizes on Southern countries of the world, while in the Northern countries informal practices are still marginal or neglected compared to their proactive roles that could play in reframing public policies. Although this phenomenon has been recently re-evaluated in Europe, especially as antagonism between legality and illegality and rights, the housing practices of self-help could be a promising approach to solve housing deprivation in many metropolitan cities where the gap of income between rich and poor is keener. However, in Italy and in other European countries, squatters are illegal persons and therefore it becomes more complicated …
Piazzetta Mediterraneo, Palermo
2020
Nello scenario post-crisi attuale, che ha visto la sensibile riduzione delle risorse pubbliche per i progetti di rigenerazione urbana, in molte realtà urbane italiane e non solo, stiamo assistendo alla crescita di una serie di pratiche urbane micro-spaziali che stanno ridisegnando gli spazi urbani. In questo quadro generale, particolarmente significative risultano le esperienze di rigenerazione avviate a Palermo in cui lo spazio pubblico urbano risulta essere l’esito di pratiche informali avviate dagli abitanti e, successivamente, “riconosciute” dalle politiche urbane ufficiali dell’Amministrazione comunale. In particolare, il contributo presenta l’esperienza di Piazzetta del Mediterraneo, …
Informal and Formal Practices within the EU Security Approach in Kosovo
2018
The hesitant path of Western Balkans towards EU’s integration, the enduring borders and constitutional disputes and the unsettled ethnic tensions in the region trigger new security threats for Europe. The chapter explores the link between informal and formal actors and rules in EU security domain choosing as a case study, EULEX, the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) operation in Kosovo. The chapter addresses the following questions: how pragmatically EULEX has transformed itself reacting to operational needs in the field? Which is the framework of mobilization of informal networks, the source of their legitimacy and the ways they affect formal and international policies in high-inst…