Cities have become unaffordable for the average Italian family. The two most popular ways of accessing housing, renting and buying, no longer work. Or rather: they no longer work for…

What happens after gentrification? Social sciences have described gentrification in depth. But what happens to a neighborhood when this process is interrupted? The study of Rome’s San Lorenzo district allows…

Sarah Gainsforth recounts her experience as a waitress in a Roman bar, one better than most, and draws an accurate portrait of what it means to work in the restaurant…

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

Over the past decade, numerous places in every corner of the planet have experienced profound transformations related to the impact of tourism: pollution and land consumption brought on by unnecessary…

Airbnb has transformed 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 of…