Vincenzo Marrone

During the last decades the housing policies debate focused to the social capital issues. Usually this concept has been thought as tool to tackle the vulnerability of the poorer classes, ghettoization and social exclusion pathways. At the same time the concept of social capital has been used to contrast the individualization process of the middle classes and, according to the New Urbanism approach, to build the sense of community, supportive social networks and civic engagement...