Housing, Urban Commons and the Right to the City in Post-Crisis Rome: Metropoliz, the Squatted Città Meticcia

by Margherita Grazioli

This book tells the story of Metropoliz, a vacant salami factory located in the Eastern periphery of Rome (Italy) that was squatted in 2009 by homeless households with the cooperation of the Housing Rights Movement Blocchi Precari Metropolitani, and progressively reconverted into the house and museum spaces that form the Citt? Meticcia (the mestizo city). Through a vivid activist-ethnographic account, Margherita Grazioli suggests that Metropoliz...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030708489
• ISBN13: 9783030708481
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"