Between Financialization and Ecological Processes. Urban Health as a Common Good

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE
Author/s Gennaro Avallone
Publishing Year 2013 Issue 2013/101
Language Italian Pages 15 P. 85-99 File size 118 KB
DOI 10.3280/SUR2013-101008
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The article aims to study how the assumption of urban health as a common good can change the contemporary urbanization trends and face the crisis of planning practices and urban policies. The author moves from two theoretical assumptions. On the one hand, urbanization is viewed as an ecological process, and, on the other hand, urban health as a common good is recognized as a guiding principle to realize planning and public participation practices oriented to build a new urban ecological regime.

Keywords: Urbanization, Ecological Regime, Nature, Capitalism, Temporality, Sociality.

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Gennaro Avallone, Tra finanziarizzazione e processi ecologici. la salute urbana come bene comune in "SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE" 101/2013, pp 85-99, DOI: 10.3280/SUR2013-101008