Introduzione. Città (in)visibili, tra riconoscimento e rimozione

This contribution explores urban visibility as a site of tension, selection, and conflict, where power shapeswhat is shown, valued, or erased. Drawing on six case-based and theoretical contributions, this issue of thenewsletter highlights how contemporary cities are contested terrains where categories such as visibility andinvisibility, decorum and decay, inclusion and exclusion are constantly negotiated, often coexisting,overlapping, and colliding. The city emerges as a space of competing legitimacies, also inhabited by silences,absences, and urban ghosts that unsettle dominant narratives and are systematically excluded from what isallowed to be seen.