Publication Date:
In Print
abstract:
To the eyes of a sociologist the world of real estate is ambiguous.
From the moment in which we take on the task of better understanding its role within contemporary society, we immediately realize that there is a lack of available knowledge on the subject and that the little information that can be found is decisively polarized in two extreme views.
On one hand are all the studies, research, and treatise that explain how the sector works, how it is articulated, and what the necessary skills to enter it are. On the other hand, there is a fairly extensive body of literature belonging to the 'investigative journalism' genre which takes interest in the field only at the onset of periodical scandals..In between both extremes, there is almost nothing useful to better understand, in a manner which isn’t clearly instrumental, the role and importance of real estate in contemporary society and in the transformation of urban space. This fact is all the more paradoxical when one considers that most in the so-called humanities (political science, geography, anthropology, sociology, and demography, to name only a few) agree that space transformation has always been one of the practices around which there is a greater intensity of interactions between the players of civil society. Such interactions concern a very wide spectrum of daily life as they include issues of citizenship and of non-negotiable rights, blend issues of economic rationality and emotional arguments, and have a significant echo in politics and in the economy of nations.
From the moment in which we take on the task of better understanding its role within contemporary society, we immediately realize that there is a lack of available knowledge on the subject and that the little information that can be found is decisively polarized in two extreme views.
On one hand are all the studies, research, and treatise that explain how the sector works, how it is articulated, and what the necessary skills to enter it are. On the other hand, there is a fairly extensive body of literature belonging to the 'investigative journalism' genre which takes interest in the field only at the onset of periodical scandals..In between both extremes, there is almost nothing useful to better understand, in a manner which isn’t clearly instrumental, the role and importance of real estate in contemporary society and in the transformation of urban space. This fact is all the more paradoxical when one considers that most in the so-called humanities (political science, geography, anthropology, sociology, and demography, to name only a few) agree that space transformation has always been one of the practices around which there is a greater intensity of interactions between the players of civil society. Such interactions concern a very wide spectrum of daily life as they include issues of citizenship and of non-negotiable rights, blend issues of economic rationality and emotional arguments, and have a significant echo in politics and in the economy of nations.
Iris type:
2.1 Contributo in Volume(Capitolo,Saggio)
Keywords:
real estate community, second circuit of capital,
List of contributors:
Borelli, Guido
Book title:
Mobilities and Hospitable Cities