The work critically explores a recently-emerged strategy of territorial regeneration for small towns at risk of depopulation in Italy, “One-euro houses”. Situ- ated at the intersection between rural gentrification and the researches on real estate capitalism, the analysis is based on a place-based case-study in Troina, Sicily, to under- stand if the initiative supports socio-economic regeneration in small villages and/or marginal areas or, on the contrary, it fosters commodification/financialization of the real estate market as well as extractive dynamics. So, the paper scrutinizes how the local coalition of public and private actors mobilizes the initiative to deal with the challenges of the local development, thus highlighting the mismatch between their per- ception and the critical views of the academic and cultural debate.
L’iniziativa “case a un euro” contro la marginalità territoriale in Italia: mercificazione o rivitalizzazione?
Graziano T.
2023-01-01
Abstract
The work critically explores a recently-emerged strategy of territorial regeneration for small towns at risk of depopulation in Italy, “One-euro houses”. Situ- ated at the intersection between rural gentrification and the researches on real estate capitalism, the analysis is based on a place-based case-study in Troina, Sicily, to under- stand if the initiative supports socio-economic regeneration in small villages and/or marginal areas or, on the contrary, it fosters commodification/financialization of the real estate market as well as extractive dynamics. So, the paper scrutinizes how the local coalition of public and private actors mobilizes the initiative to deal with the challenges of the local development, thus highlighting the mismatch between their per- ception and the critical views of the academic and cultural debate.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
