Milan: A City Lost in the Transition from the Growth Machine Paradigm Towards a Social Innovation Approach

Costa, Giuliana; Cucca, Roberta; Torri, Rossana

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-21551-8_7

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“…From a rent-gap theory perspective, the drop of housing prices in Milan as result of the 2007-2008 Global Financial Crisis can be assimilated to the classical process of capital flight away from the city. The development policies in Milan over the last decade enhanced the urban entrepreneurial agenda, favouring private development and real estate rather than affordable housing in the city centre and in the inner-city areas (Costa, Cucca, & Torri, 2016).…”

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The impacts of Airbnb in Athens, Lisbon and Milan: a rent gap theory perspective

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Bernardi

Arvanitis

2020

Current Issues in Tourism

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The 2007-2008 Global Financial Crisis profoundly impacted the housing markets, particularly of the so-called PIGS countries. Main cities in Portugal, Italy and Greece have seen a sharp decrease in house prices and rent value since 2010. At the same time, the rise of Airbnb has contributed to the reframing of housing market demand in cities, with an increase of temporary lettings in prime urban tourist areas. Understandably, this has direct implications for local residents, with renters' displacement, tourism gentrification and raising cases of tourismphobia. This article provides insights from three cities -Athens, Lisbon and Milan -to show how the dynamics in the housing market and the boost of Airbnb over the last decade are steadily changing the urban populations of the aforementioned cities. This research builds upon the Rent Gap Theory and the Lukes' Power Theory to illustrate how Airbnb is fostering a new form of urban displacement at a faster rate than traditional housing gentrification, with the renting of prime residential areas to tourists.

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Section: Milanmentioning

confidence: 99%

The impacts of Airbnb in Athens, Lisbon and Milan: a rent gap theory perspective

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Bernardi

Arvanitis

2020

Current Issues in Tourism

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“…In line with more general changes taking place in Europe, the decades which followed, and especially the 1990s, saw this drive progressively diminish in favour of a residual type of social welfare, on one hand (Mingione et al. , 2004), and market-making strategies, on the other (Costa et al. , 2016).…”

Section: Financial Inclusion: Social Microcredit and Financial Educat...mentioning

confidence: 87%

The depoliticisation of social policy through financial inclusion

Dodaro

Bifulco

2023

IJSSP

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore two financial inclusion measures adopted within the local welfare context of the city of Milan, Italy, examining their functioning and underpinning representations. The aim is also to understand how such representations take concrete shape in the practices of local actors, and their implications for the opportunities and constraints regarding individuals' effective inclusion. To this end, this paper takes a wide-ranging look at the interplay between the rise of financial inclusion and the individualisation and responsibilisation models informing welfare policies, within the broader context of financialisation processes overall.Design/methodology/approachThis paper draws on the sociology of public action approach and provides a qualitative analysis of two case studies, a social microcredit service and a financial education programme, based on direct observation and semi-structured interviews conducted with key policy actors.FindingsThis paper sheds light on the rationale behind two financial inclusion services and illustrates how the instruments involved incorporate and tend to reproduce, individualising logics that reduce the problem of financial exclusion, and the social and economic vulnerability which underlies it, to a matter of personal responsibility, thus fuelling depoliticising tendencies in public action. It also discusses the contradictions underlying financial inclusion instruments, showing how local actors negotiate views and strategies on the problems to be addressed.Originality/valueThe paper makes an original contribution to the field of sociology and social policy by focusing on two under-researched instruments of financial inclusion and improving understanding of the finance-welfare state nexus and of the contradictions underpinning attempts at financial inclusion of the most vulnerable.

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“…The city administration developed an early capacity to steer the energies and the initiatives of civil society. Since the mid-1990s, over two decades of centre-right local administrations, a passive approach to the economic support of the poor prevailed, together with an exacerbation and repression of social conflict (Costa et al, 2016). It should be noted that, over the same two decades, Lombardy (the region of which Milan is the capital city) was also steadily governed by centre-right coalitions, characterised by extensive use of externalisation and marketisation policies in welfare provision (Gori, 2011).…”

Section: The Context: Roots and Recent Innovations In Milan Municipal...mentioning

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The Spaces of Social Services as Social Infrastructure: Insights From a Policy-Innovation Project in Milan

Bricocoli

Marani²,

Sabatinelli

2022

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The spatial organisation of social services has long been residual for both urban planning and social welfare policies in Italian cities. This often results in randomly chosen locations and poor design arrangements, which ignore the role that space might play in fostering social life and inclusion. The scarce relevance given to the topic both in research and implementation is connected to the historical evolution of social services in the country and the scant resources devoted to their provision. Basing itself on the debate on welfare spaces and social infrastructures and drawing on a collaborative-research experience within an experimental policy-innovation project developed in Milan, this article tackles the role of space in social services provision following three directions. Firstly, it analyses how, at the urban level, welfare innovations and the interplay between urban planning and welfare policies might contribute to reshaping the traditional physical structures of social services and their map to favour more inclusive patterns of access to local welfare. Secondly, it investigates the role of social services as social infrastructures in increasing accessibility, reducing stigmatisation, and interpreting in a more inclusive way the complex public-private partnerships that allow welfare implementation nowadays. Finally, it discusses how, in the face of contemporary trends in the activation of welfare spaces, traditional urban planning tools are challenged in monitoring their increasingly dynamic distribution in the city. This highlights the need to develop innovative urban planning strategies and tools to effectively support decision-making and design.

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Milan: A City Lost in the Transition from the Growth Machine Paradigm Towards a Social Innovation Approach

Cited by 7 publications

References 6 publications

The impacts of Airbnb in Athens, Lisbon and Milan: a rent gap theory perspective

The impacts of Airbnb in Athens, Lisbon and Milan: a rent gap theory perspective

The depoliticisation of social policy through financial inclusion

The Spaces of Social Services as Social Infrastructure: Insights From a Policy-Innovation Project in Milan

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