La finanziarizzazione della città: spazi di rendita e di relazione a confronto

Has finance been more important to urban growth or has urban growth been crucial for financial expansion? This article seeks to answer this question drawing from multidisciplinary literature that focuses on the urbanization process in the peculiar conjuncture of financialized capitalism. Leaving on the background definition of financialization formulated by economists or political economists, it suggests adopting a relational approach to financialization of the urban space. Setting macro and micro analysis in dialogue, this approach is able to shed light both on structural aspects and social impact of financialization process in variegated historical, political and geographical contexts, as the articles of this themed section widely show.