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Marco Allegra

Marco Allegra

Marco Allegra (Laurea, International relations, University of Torino; MA Near and Middle Eastern Studies, SOAS - University of London; PhD Political Science, University of Torino) is a Principal Investigator at ICS-ULisboa. He chairs the Urban Transition Hub, and participates to the board of the CES Research Network on Social Movements. He has worked on Middle East politics, planning theory and urban studies, the politics of expertise, housing policy and housing movements. Marco has previously worked at the University of Turin and at CIES-IUL as lecturer and postdoctoral researcher. His publications include articles in journals such as Citizenship Studies, Mediterranean Politics, Urban Studies, Environment and Planning A, Dialogues in Human Geography, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Planning Theory and Practice, Transaction of AESOP, Etnográfica, European Planning Studies, Political Geography, Cidades; a monograph on the history of Palestinian people (Carocci 2010); an edited volume on planning conflicts (with Enrico Gualini and João Mourato, Jovis 2015); and an edited volume on Israel’s settlement policy in the West Bank (with Ariel Handel and Erez Maggor, Indiana University Press 2017).

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 7November 22, 2022<November 22, 2022

Who Profits? And Who Should? Notes on Coletividades, Gentrification and Political Agency in Arroios

Marco Allegra writes about the role of coletividades—non-commercial spaces—and local groups in the transformation of Lisbon’s Arroios, and questions some of the standard narratives of the neighbourhood’s gentrification.
no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 7November 8, 2022<December 19, 2022

“What’s in a name?”: Imagining Arroios

Lisbon’s Arroios was dubbed “the world’s coolest neighborhood” by Time Out. Marco Allegra considers the power of naming and asks what's at stake in such rankings of “coolness.”

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  • About Us
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      • Lawrence Webb
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  • Current Issue
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    • Volume 1 – 2015/2016
      • № 1 – December 2015
      • № 2 – March 2016
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      • № 5 – November 2016
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      • № 2 – June 2017
      • № 3 – September 2017
      • № 4 – October/November 2017
      • № 5 – December 2017
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      • № 1 – January/February 2018
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      • № 3 – October/November 2019
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    • Volume 6 – 2021
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      • Vol. 7, № 2
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      • Workshops
      • 2016 Workshop Proposal
      • Sponsored Events
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    • Course Syllabi
  • Sections
    • Dossiers
    • Roundtables
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    • Student Voices
    • Mediapolis on Coronavirus
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