Over the past thirty years, public policy in Rome has failed to effectively address a rising
level of socio-economic inequality. Indicators such as level of education or number of …

For a political economy of metropolitan scale: the role of public–private relations. Territory,
Politics, Governance. The metropolitan scale of urban development and governance has …

This article examines whether the theory of the 'revenge of the places that don't
matter'applies to urban districts within a metropolis like Rome, Italy. To contribute to this …

This paper investigates the emergence of informal planning practices and their relationship
with the new geometries of power and responsibility that characterise what is here defined …

This article investigates the relationship between urban gardening and planning by building
upon the results of field research on gardening initiatives in the city of Rome, Italy. The work …

This chapter debates the competing approaches of the smart city model. It starts by critically
discussing top-down approaches, focusing on influence of neoliberal urban …

This chapter analyses the processes whereby thousands of Romani people have been
segregated and confined to territorially stigmatized camps in Italy's capital over the last 40 …

This article explores how Rome's municipal authorities have managed Roma's vending
practices in the city's street markets during the last two decades and how Roma traders have …

It has now been over three decades since critical theorists observed the importance of
seeing urban regions as “strategic institutional arenas in which far reaching transformation …

Il contributo approfondisce la questione della rendita urbana a Roma nel suo rapporto con
la metropolizzazione. Si ragiona intorno ad una metropolizzazione debole e incerta e ad …