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1 online resource |
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Intro -- Contents -- Informality: A Difficult Qualification -- Informality and Evolution of Urban Space -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Concept of Urban Informality -- 3 Origins and Evolution of Urban Informality -- 4 The Main Theoretical Approaches -- 5 Informality and Urban Space -- 6 Perspectives on the Informal -- Bibliographical References -- Collective Action, Urban Spaces, and Common Goods: The Concept of Informality from a Sociological Perspective -- 1 Why Discuss Informality? -- 2 Sociology and an Informal Economy |
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3 Informality as an Analytical Category: Informal Ties, Social Movements and Direct Social Action -- 4 Informal Cities, Common Goods, and Participation -- 5 Concluding Reflections -- Bibliographical References -- Informality and Democratic Innovation: The Urban Political Laboratory -- 1 Informality, Instructions for Use -- 2 Informality as a Social Practice -- 3 Democracies in Transformation -- 4 Conclusions -- Bibliographical References -- The Legal Value of Informality for the General Interest: The Example of Cities -- 1 Informality in Law |
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2 Examples and Models of Conciliation Between Informality and Formal Law -- 2.1 The Tolerance Model -- 2.2 The Recognition Model -- 2.3 The Innovative Legal Qualification Model -- 2.4 The Collaboration Agreements Model -- 2.5 The Re-use of Goods in Transition -- 3 The Unifying Contribution Offered by the Principle of Horizontal Subsidiarity -- 4 The Legal Space of Cities -- 5 The Risks of Informality -- Bibliographical References -- The Re-use of Assets Confiscated from Organized Crime: How to Make the Informal Formal |
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1 Premise. Assets Confiscated from the Mafia as Common Goods. The Potential of Informality -- 2 The Evolution of the Discipline of Confiscation of Assets from the Mafia -- 3 The Re-use of Assets in Transition as a Model of Informality: The Phase of Temporary Assignment -- 4 The Destination Phase of Definitively Confiscated Assets: The Role of Informality -- Bibliographical References -- The Role of "Intangible Factors" for Local Development: Policy Implications and Preliminary Indicators for Evaluation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Role of Intangible Factors in Economic Theory |
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3 The Role of Intangible Factors in the Dynamics of Sustainable Local Development -- 4 Policy Implications of Local Development -- 5 Preliminary Indicators for Impact Evaluation -- 5.1 Active Citizenship -- 5.2 Partnership Representation -- 5.3 Integrated Processes -- 5.4 Sustainability -- Bibliographical References -- Urban Regeneration and Informal City in the European Framework -- 1 Urban Regeneration and Informal City -- 2 The Notion of "Informal City" -- 3 The Collaboration of Citizens -- 4 The Relation Between Formality and Informality -- 4.1 The Criticalities of Informal Initiatives |
| Summary |
This book analyzes the informal practices of contemporary cities through a close dialogue between different research perspectives, with the shared goal of giving voice to informality and evaluating its benefits and potential in a multidimensional key of social factors. Recently, the human sciences have seen the emergence of this new term informality, at first sight in conflict with their function of giving order and form to social phenomena. A term with which, in this book, the authors, having as reference the Italian and European experience, specifically identify those unsatisfied social demands and those collective actions from below that aim at the recovery of urban space and the renewal of its organization, often not following the trajectories of legality and institutions. By means of a close dialogue between different areas of social research, this book attempts to establish the different declinations and applications of the term, evaluating the causes and effects, benefits, and potential of the phenomena attributable to it, within a multidimensional analysis that calls into question the regeneration and collective use of spaces, political-institutional confrontation and conflict, legal innovation, and social-economic benefits |
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Social History |
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| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 28, 2023) |
| Subject |
Urbanization -- Economic aspects
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Informal sector (Economics)
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Informal sector (Economics)
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Urbanization -- Economic aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ferroni, Maria Vittoria.
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Galdini, Rossana.
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Ruocco, Giovanni.
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| ISBN |
3031298276 |
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9783031298271 |
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