Urban rent and metropolization. The case of Rome

Journal title ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI
Author/s Barbara Pizzo
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2020/suppl. 129 Language Italian
Pages 22 P. 64-85 File size 167 KB
DOI 10.3280/ASUR2020-129-S1004
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Aim of this contribution is to deepen the urban rent question in its relationship with metropolization. We will clarify how the weak and uncertain metropolization in Rome is closely related to some peculiar modalities of formation and extraction of rent that char-acterize the Roman context. The metropolitan scale in Rome has been largely the result of a discursive construction that fed rent’s mechanism more than any other possible result expected from a rescaling process.

Keywords: Urban rent; metropolizazion; urban planning and political economy; urban transformations.

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Barbara Pizzo, Rendita e metropolizzazione. Il caso di Roma in "ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI" suppl. 129/2020, pp 64-85, DOI: 10.3280/ASUR2020-129-S1004