Editorial & Research
Cadaveri Eccellenti
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The Project
The interest in the issue of illegal housing is focused on the analysis of the phenomenon as a social fact, or “historical documenti” of a process that brings into play practices, the territory and actors in a given historical period.
The dichotomy legality/illegality, usually used as the main line of interpretation of illegal building, will not be our guidline as a semplification of a process that in its historical evolution puts into crisis the dichotomy itself.
This research, on the other hand, aims to highlight the contradiction and complexity of the phenomenon itself, its multiple causes and solutions, through a multidisciplinary perspective capable of historicizing the process by focusing on the Sicilian coasts.
The costal landscape dominated by endless and disordered agglomerations of small houses is part of the contemporary Mediterranean coastal landscape, as are the wild coasts, the anciet historical cities on the sea and the tourist resorts.