A “space” of One’s Own: identity and conflict in two Milan districts

The article is based on a qualitative data collection on the city of Milan, paradigmatic city as a neoliberal city, at the centre of recent urban, economic and social transformations. In particular, the essay compares the urban spaces of two districts of the city, reflecting on spatial categories, recent transformations, forced cohabitations in interclosed and in-between spaces. Drawing on the classics of sociological literature, and on the most recent theoretical proposals of urban geography studies, the essay attempts to define how and on the basis of which factors urban conflict in the global metropolis has changed