Cities have become unaffordable for the average Italian family. The two most popular forms of access to housing, renting and mortgage, no longer work. Or rather: they no longer work…

What is there after gentrification? The social sciences have analyzed the processes of gentrification, but what happens in a neighborhood when it comes into crisis and stops? The study of…

Sarah Gainsforth tells us about her experience between the tables of a Roman bar, an experience perhaps better than many others, and together she draws an accurate portrait of what…

A space for living and social reproduction, the home is also, increasingly, a commodity. La promotion of mass ownership was at the heart of the conservative revolution that crushed social…

Over the past decade, numerous places in every corner of the planet have experienced profound transformations related to tourism: pollution and land consumption with unnecessary works and infrastructure for tourists,…

Airbnb has helped transform the world’s major cities into theme parks for tourists and resorts for the rich. This book shows the very concrete and devastating effects that one…