Entrée principale:

Herzfeld, M. (Michael)

Titre et auteur:

Evicted from eternity : the restructuring of modern Rome / Michael Herzfeld.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Description:

xiii, 373 p. : ill., 1 map ; 23 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-355) and index.
Overture: encountering the Eternal City -- 1. Sin and the City -- Genealogies of imperfection -- Monti: paradoxes of poverty -- Sociable spaces -- Meeting the people -- The village in the city -- Agonies and agonistics -- The cadences of a cultural preserve -- 2. Popolo and Population -- The artisans The shopkeepers -- Intellectuals and politicians -- 3. The Wages of Original Sin -- Accountability and accommodation: the pragmatics of original sin -- Original sinners or elder brothers? -- The dialectics of casuistry and tolerance -- A passion for the past -- 4. Refractions of Social Life -- Segmentation and subsidiarity -- The civic and the civil -- Association life -- The premises of conflict -- Theaters of piety and peculation -- A clergy scorned -- 5. Life and Law in a Flawed State -- Laws and regulations -- The limits of law -- The (disreputable) origins of legal loopholes -- Indulgent complicities -- Forgiveness and calculation -- Sacred images and sinful spaces -- 6. Scandals of Sociability -- Friends who strangle -- The cultivation of fear -- Restitution and redemption -- Friends best avoided -- A family friend? -- Local narratives: swaggering victims -- Credit and default -- Banking on fear -- Tactful silences -- 7. Extortionate Civilities -- Accommodations civil and civic -- Discommoding complicities -- Uncivil pleasantries, unpleasant civilities -- Culture and custom -- Peaceful politics -- Condominial civilities -- Lessons in civic civility -- Spatial and stylistic violence -- 8. The Fine Art of Denunciation -- The logic of denunciation -- Performances of policing -- Fractured authority: the multiplicity of policing -- Extorting coffee and Campari -- 9. Tearing the Social Fabric Renters and owners -- Lawyers and illegalities -- Eviction and evasion: the high stakes of time and place -- Gentrification and the last frontier -- Endgame -- Coda: The Future of Eternity.

Résumé:

This title tells the story of the gentrification of Monti, once the architecturally stunning home of a community of artisans and shopkeepers now displaced by an invasion of rapacious real estate speculators, corrupt officials, dithering politicians, deceptive clerics, and shady thugs.

ISBN:

9780226329116 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226329123 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226329119 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226329127 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Sujet:

Gentrification Italy Rome.
Urban renewal Italy Rome.
Embourgeoisement (Urbanisme) Italie Rome.
Rénovation urbaine Italie Rome.
Gentrification.
Urban renewal.
Eviction Italy Rome Case studies
Housing Italy Rome
Italy Rome.
Monti (Rome, Italy) Social conditions

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Localisation: Bibliothèque main 261925
Cote: BIB 192971
Statut: Disponible