Italian Abstract: Il testo presenta una rassegna non diacronica delle principali politiche per la casa rivolte agli insediamenti informali e ai poveri nelle città del Sud del mondo, che sono state promosse a partire dal secondo dopoguerra dalle principali agenzie internazionali (in particolare,...

The paper focuses on ethical aspects related to the transfer of development rights (TDR), that is on the ethical values on which the choice to implement a TDR programme rests/should rest. In particular, the paper stresses the importance of taking the principle of equality of all citizens before...

The paper focuses on differences and similarities between two types of private residential communities (or homeowners associations): cohousing and gated communities. The reasoning is structured as a reply to a paper by Maria L. Ruiu in Sociological Inquiry, in which the author maintains that...

The paper analyses cohousing as a part of the phenomenon of private residential communities. First, we provide an overview of cohousing and we identify its five constitutive characteristics. Second, we propose a comparison between the constitutive features of cohousing and of other kinds of...

The paper focuses on Henri Lefebvre's reflections on the city; it is argued that from these reflections it is possible to derive a particular notion of citizenship that is relevant for urban planning and design (theory and practice). In the first part of the paper, several of Lefebvre's key...

Il testo si interroga sul fenomeno dell’associazionismo comunitario a carattere residenziale negli Stati Uniti, di quelle aree residenziali (nel saggio indicate con Residential Private Enclaves) che, nel linguaggio comune, vengono prevalentemente definite con il termine di Gated Communities. E...