Ricerc@Sapienza

In the last decades, crisis discourse became more dominant, leading to changes in Israeli
planning discourse. The planning system assumes neoliberal features, which changed the
power-relations within planning, enabled a rescaling of planning powers and determined the
adoption of specific urban development patterns. The paper reveals how a governing
coalition, using crisis discourse, promoted policy change that can deepen social inequalities
and environmental unbalance. We focus on Israeli VATMAL law, enacted to ‘solve’ the

The question of urban inequalities relates to two interconnected processes of change.
These involve: (i) the increase and transformation of inequalities on global and local
scales and (ii) the urbanisation at a time when the majority of the world’s population
lives in cities and the growth of gigantic conurbations in both the Global North and
South. Today, the traditional historical divide between urban and rural contexts is
not so significant – also the case in the lesser developed countries and regions – with

The explosion of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing policy of social distancing undertaken by many countries have put the organisation of production and of the work process under unprecedented stress.1 Analyses of the pandemic’s impact on the labour market are now spurring (Coibion et al., 2020) scary projections in terms of the number of jobs lost and related income losses.

Background:
Social Determinants of Health may influence the use of Primary Health Care Services (PHCs) especially for foreign populations, leading to inequalities and avoidable hospitalizations. This study investigates how educational level (EL) and income of country of origin affect emergency admissions (EAs) for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions (ACSCs), acute health conditions related to the use of PHCs, using data on Emergency Department admissions of three hospitals in Rome from 1999 to 2014.