Squatting

This comparative study examines how southern Italian migrants faced social and political exclusion within and outside of their nation-state in the decades following the Second World War. Using Turin, Italy and Frankfurt am Main, West Germany as case studies, I investigate how ur…

This work examines the parallel developments of squatted social centres in Bristol, London, Milan and Rome in depth, covering the last two decades of the twentieth century. They are considered here as a by-product of the emergence of neo-liberalism. Too often studied in the pres…

This thesis ventures to understand and explain aspects of the complex system of land usage, housing and transportation in cities. It proposes theoretical models and uses empirical analysis to aid its goal of explaining some stylized facts and anecdotal evidence available in the …