URBAN 10

Living the Divide 

Living the Divide is a three-episode mini-series exploring how the housing crisis and urban transformations are reshaping Milan. From San Siro — caught between neglected public housing and new private developments — to the controversial Salva Milano decree, the series traces the fractures running through the city: between public and private, rights and markets, inclusion and exclusion. Through interviews, testimonies, and critical analysis, Urbinary investigates how housing becomes a terrain of conflict and resistance, and how neoliberal policies turn the city into a product rather than a shared place to live. 

Gated condos next to crumbling apartments. Luxury towers rising beside public neglect. In this first episode, we explore how Milan’s urban space has become a landscape of stark contrasts, where inequality is no longer hidden but spatialized, embedded in the city’s architecture. By tracing narratives, policies, and lived experiences, we ask: What kind of logic is driving the city’s transformation? And what does it mean when the same street hosts two versions of the urban future?