Metropolitan Cities and Inner Areas in a Hyperconnected, Transitional World: Advancing Fairness, Cohesion and Equal Opportunities for Lagging and Demographically Declining Territories

Within the International Symposium “Networks, Markets & People” 2026, it is worth mentioning in particular

Thematic session TS 13
"Commoning the voids: structural barriers and enabling conditions for inhabiting the inner peripheries"
Organizers: Mauro Fontana and Luca Lazzarini

This session addresses the structural paradox characterizing inner peripheries and left-behind territories: a vast stock of vacant, obsolete, and underused housing heritage that remains largely inaccessible. Rather than a simple market failure, this “housing crisis in reverse” is rooted in structural barriers: property fragmentation, poor building conditions, lack of accessibility, owner distrust, real estate speculation, and the impacts of touristification.

Deadline Call for Abstract 23 January 2026

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