The paper deals with the transfer of development rights (TDR) in Italy. It presents a comparative analysis of the TDR programs implemented in the twelve capital cities of the Lombardy region in the past decade. After introducing the international debate on TDR and the distinctive features of the transfer of …
This article investigates the birth and evolution of a Business Improvement District (BID) in Talimhane, Istanbul, which is the first case of use of this instrument of neoliberal governance in the Turkish city. The distinctive nature of the Talimhane BID consists in the fact that it has been developed through …
The paper provides an introductory theoretical framework for this special issue. Firstly, the main weaknesses of the traditional ‘geography of informality’ are analyzed, including its tendency to focus on urban poverty in the ‘Global South’, to privilege its economic causes, and to treat the phenomenon in terms of clear-cut dichotomies. …
Religious diversity has significant consequences on the urban environment, and primarily because of the new spaces that it entails. These spaces engender complex problems of regulation, including specific issues related to urban planning. This article will mainly consider the current situation in Italy. Its focus will be on the …
This paper deals with the question of corruption in the field of land-use planning. To curb the insidious spread of graft and bribery, anti-corruption measures should be built into any planning system as part of its structure. Corruption in the planning field is largely tied to the opportunities that …
Chiodelli F., Moroni S. (2016), “Zoning-integrative and zoning-alternative transferable development rights: Compensation, equity, efficiency”, Land Use Policy, 52: 422–429
This paper conducts a review of the main housing policies for informal settlements and the poor in the so-called Global South promoted by the main international agencies
Chiodelli F., Moroni S. (2014), “The complex nexus between informality and the law: Reconsidering unauthorised settlements in light of the concept of nomotropism”, Geoforum 51: 161-169
Chiodelli F. (2016). Equal Treatment in Land Use Planning: Investigating the Ethics of the Transfer of Development Rights. Scienze Regionali / Italian Journal of Regional Science, 15(1): 131-138
Chiodelli F. (2015) “What is really different between cohousing and gated communities?”, European Planning Studies, 23(12): 2566-2581
