Autore
Prisco, Marilena

Titolo
Public housing units and ruins: The case of Ponticelli in Naples
Periodico
Equilibri
Anno: 2020 - Volume: 68 - Fascicolo: speciale - Pagina iniziale: 235 - Pagina finale: 242

This work aims to contribute to the topic of sheltering, highlighting howhousing is barely separable from the wider material and temporal dimensionof the city. Specifically, the aspect of relocation – in this paper investigatedas a deeply socio-material dynamic – is referred to in respect ofboth people and buildings. Three exempla from the uncompleted housingneighbourhood of Ponticelli, in Naples, are used to investigate the practicaland theoretical implications of processes of «habitation» and «ruination»in public housing buildings during relocation. It examines the multiple reasonsbehind the movement of inhabitants in specific units, and behind thedecisions of demolition or renovation of urban material leftovers.The relational approach applied in this study to the «material leftovers»could be expanded also to investigating other cities and geographical locations with a severe need for housing for poor people; to better understandingthe role of specific material components and settings for the implementationof housing and relocation regulations; to analysing (at the city-level)institutional policies and actions specific to «people in need», and theirbigger impact on the transformation of cities.



SICI: 1594-7580(2020)68:SPECIALE<235:PHUART>2.0.ZU;2-D
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