Territoire en Mouvement (Dec 2020)

Habiter et cohabiter le quartier de la Magione à Palerme. Gentrification, continuités populaires et concurrences d’appropriation

  • Hélène Jeanmougin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4000/tem.6858
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 48

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The urban renewals politic driven in the historic center of Palermo was first focused on the built environment, without basic strategy about renewal of urban functions. The consequence was a sporadic and heterogeneous gentrification confined to the residential fabric. Acknowledging the risk of departure of new middle class inhabitants, tired of public spaces dynamics, municipality refocused her politic about public spaces. This article interrogates the effects of this successive politics on the « way of inhabit » the public spaces of the « already there » inhabitants and on the cohabitations of inhabitants with diversified profils and with perceptions and practices often divergents, in the Magione neighborhood, where we realized two field research with a four-year interval. We desbribe and analyse the ways of inhabit and of cohabit of old and new inhabitants, then we conclude with the existence of a « to inhabit without to reside » which interacts with forms and temporality of socio-urbans transformations of the neighborhood in gentrification.

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