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Il contributo invita da un lato nuovamente a riflettere sull’attualità della questione abitativa e sul correlato diritto alla casa e a mantenere uno sguardo attento su una “povertà specifica”, dall’altro a non dimenticare il contesto all’interno del quale la povertà abitativa oggi si colloca e dal quale è costantemente alimentata, nonché resa più acuta. A partire dalle differenti figure e profili della nuova questione abitativa, viene proposta un’analisi delle attuali politiche che appaiono del tutto inadeguate. L’obiettivo di accrescere l’appropriatezza delle politiche, migliorandone la congruenza e coerenza con i bisogni dei gruppi più deboli e svantaggiati, potrebbe contribuire a un ripensamento complessivo dell’intervento sociale dello stato in questo ambito. I problemi abitativi dei più poveri non possono infatti trovare una risposta solamente in un rilancio dell’edilizia residenziale pubblica e in maggiori investimenti, sebbene necessari, ma richiedono un impegno “supplementare”, promuovendo da un lato politiche più mirate, dall’altro misure ad hoc per coloro che sono maggiormente in difficoltà.

The paper will present an experiment implemented by the Municipality of Bologna with the engagement of part of the residential public housing sector (ERP). The project consisted on testing a form of social mix that was based on populations with different needs and resources but a hard housing problem in common. The aim of the project was favoring the creation of social ties and neighborhood attachment, in order to subvert the territorial stigma that sometimes affects ERP settlements. This social mix proposal assumed that many resources are available within housing problems, and these resources are just waiting to be properly recognized and valued.

The aim of the article is to discuss the interconnections existing between urban and migration studies. It argues that, at the beginning of the XX century, namely in the pioneering works of the Chicago School, the two debates developed jointly. The essay illustrates the added value of using a spatial lens to understand migrations. Moreover, it shows the advantages of considering migratory processes to read the current transformations undertaken by contemporary cities and rural areas. Finally, it introduces the contributions collected in this monographic section of the Journal «Urban and Rural Sociology».

Citta e spazio nel pensiero di Maurice Hallbwachs - City and Space in Maurice Halbwachs’ thought, In Italy as well as in France, Maurice Halbwachs is still considered a specialist of collective memory and little attention is paid to his theoretical contributions to European urban sociology. Nevertheless, a great part of Halbwachs’s reflection was centred on the development of the city, particularly on the spatial dimension of social facts. The aim of the present essay is therefore to reconstruct the development of Halbwachs’s thought on city and space by a close examination, in chronological order, of his major writings on these subjects. We shall thus analyse the main research steps which have taken Halbwachs from the study of social morphology to a more and more accurate definition of space as a sociological category. Key words: social morphology, city, Maurice Halbwachs.