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The city is a legal artifact.
Its skyline is not just a product of markets and architects, but of laws –codified, contested, forgotten.
HABITAT excavates the legal blueprints of urban inequality, exposing how regulation carves space, dictates ownership, and determines exclusion.
Inequality can be designed: drafted in zoning plans, enforced in contracts, upheld in courtrooms.
HABITAT deconstructs the legal scaffolding of European cities, revealing how the built environment has been shaped by decades of judicial decisions and regulations.
Law is the invisible architecture of the city.
Cities do not emerge fully formed – they sediment.
HABITAT traces how legal decisions, zoning exceptions, and forgotten ordinances accumulate like geological layers, slowly scripting who belongs, who profits, and who disappears from the map.
Law can determine where
wealth accumulates, where precarity settles, where borders harden.
HABITAT maps the regulatory machinery that has structured urban disparity, seeking to rewrite the legal grammar of space.
Photography by Eugenio Pizzo​
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