Dal Lido al nido. Abitare ad Alghero

The essay, in a narrative way, describes a collective imagery of Alghero as a leisure place, and how it affects the social use of the urban space and the real estate market. Moving from subjective perceptions, the essay tells the tale of places too devoted to tourism, like Alghero or Venice, often invaded by this phenomenon, and how it changes the social use of public spaces during the time, in order to avoid (or, at least, to calm) the conflicts that emerge for crowd, parkings, dehors, and other topics linked to tourism. Spaces that are mostly considered as public are briefly described, under different points of view, mainly related to inhabitants rather than visitors: safety, belonging, use privileged by peculiar populations in peculiar moments, relationships with the landscape. Finally, the narrative moves from the collective to the individual realm, describing ironically the attempts to gain a dwelling, that make difficult any project to become citizens of a town not so big, pleasant, but accuelling almost under an only point of view: the one of homeowners who want to reach the maximum income by their properties.