A shelter in New York. Three circumstantial narratives on the housing issue in the neoliberal city

Cristina Mattiucci

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-333-2

A shelter in New York. Three circumstantial narratives on the housing issue in the neoliberal city

Authors

Cristina Mattiucci

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7146-2216

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-333-2

Keywords:

New York, Housing Question, Housing Studies, Housing policies, Affrodability

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: TRIA Urban Studies

Pages: 160

Language: italian

Abstract: On the basis of three narratives that the author followed during a research stay as Visiting Research Fellow at CUNY the City University of New York, whose focus of study was Understanding Housing Dynamics: Frictions and Potentialities in Policies and Practices, the book brings back to the Italian debate some of the nodes of the housing issue as it is configured today in New York, proposing a mapping of the policies and programmes that address it, in order to elaborate a learning exercise from/with a decentralised perspective. The narratives also provide an opportunity to reflect on the management of affordability - reaffirmed as the primary objective of housing policy - around which to question the role of communities, the new postures of advocacy planning, social polarisations and spatial rights.

Articulated in three parts that circumscribe a field of reflection straddling the pandemic as a moment that exacerbated certain features of the housing emergency, the book proposes a methodological lesson for Housing Studies in a comparative perspective.

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Author Biography

Cristina Mattiucci, University of Naples Federico II

Cristina Mattiucci, who holds a European PhD, is Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning at the Department of Architecture, University of Naples Federico II.

She is a Marie Curie Alumna and has numerous transdisciplinary research experiences in Italy and abroad. Her studies are developed at the intersection of Urbanism, Town Planning and Critical Urban Studies, with an ethnographic approach of investigation and a perspective of reflection, starting from theories of planning as decentred and travelling objects. Recent research experiences abroad include a Visiting Research Scholar at the CUNY Graduate Center - the City University of New York (2023) and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Geography at the Technische Universität Dresden (2020).

Her current research interests are: the housing question, the urban in the relationship between space and society, controversies and governance in/of urban transformation processes.