Recent publications

A new article by Olivier Borraz, titled “Authoritarianism as a Bureaucratic Phenomenon”, is published in The Tocqueville Review 45:1, 115-125, 2024.

A new review of Tine Gade’s 2022 book “Sunni City. Tripoli from Islamist Utopia to the Lebanese Revolution”, (Cambridge University Press), by Petra Samaha was published in Mondes Arabes journal 2024, 5(1), pages 203–209.

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 […]