Gentrification in Rome spreads in circles around the black hole of the historical center, attacking parts of town that we used to consider peripheral. In
Tor Pignattara, the most densified and
polyglot district of Rome, real estate speculators divide buildings in smaller units, and threaten the few little houses that are left:
they keep calling them "baracche" (shanties) to legitimate their gradual demolition and substitution with
palazzi. Organized crime and
neofascism spread even in parts of town that used to be "red"; as politicians approve
new urban plans that contain no urbanism except certifying any kind of old and new speculations. But resistance is also beginning to reorganize.