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- Includes original and updated estimations of abandonment phenomena at multiple levels (i.e., Italy and Milan)
- Provides operative taxonomies for policy interventions
- Consists of original mappings, images, pictures that can be used to improve current and future research
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Geography (BRIEFSGEOGRAPHY)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book provides a multidisciplinary approach for the study of the “abandonment” problem at the inter-section among urban studies, neo-institutionalist perspectives, and social ontology. An analytical framework (based on descriptive and operational issues, factors, reasons, policies) has been built to interpret the phenomenon of abandonment and possible ways of intervening.
The work considers the Italian situation in general terms and examines the case study of Milan in depth. This case is interesting because it triggered public discussions on the problem of abandonment in a non-shrinking context. Moreover, recently, specific policies to cope with abandonment problem have been introduced.
The purpose of the book is to show that the problem of the “abandonment” of urban buildings should be understood as a social fact and not as a brute fact. Thus, in this work the “abandoned” state of buildings is considered as not directly related to certain physical variables; rather, it entirely depends on human evaluations. Crucial information in this regard is how institutional frameworks (e.g. sets of rules of conduct) influence individual behaviour and actions through time. In this view, we may identify abandonment as a phenomenon intertwined with the actions of both private and public entities. The neo-institutional approach helps to highlight how the problem of abandonment is articulated with respect to property rights, formal constraints, reasons behind policy decisions, intervention strategies and implementations.
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DASTU), Polytechnic University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Anita De Franco
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Abandonment as a Social Fact
Book Subtitle: The Problem of Unused and Unmaintained Private Buildings in a Neo-institutional Perspective
Authors: Anita De Franco
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Geography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90367-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-90366-4Published: 04 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-90367-1Published: 03 December 2021
Series ISSN: 2211-4165
Series E-ISSN: 2211-4173
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 89
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geography, general