1. Theoretical explorations of legal geography
3. Informality in the “Global South”
4. The spatial dimension of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over Jerusalem
5. Housing
—– 5.1. Housing informality and precarity
—– 5.2. Cohousing and homeowners associations
6. Planning theory and practice
—– 6.1 The nexus between politics and technical knowledge in urban planning
—– 6.2. The Transfer of Development Rights
7. The regulation of pluralism and diversity in public and private spaces
THEORETICAL EXPLORATIONS OF LEGAL GEOGRAPHY
In English
ILLEGALITY/INFORMALITY, CORRUPTION AND ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE URBAN DOMAIN (IN THE “GLOBAL NORTH”)
In English
- Criminal accumulation by dispossession: the exploitation of property development in peripheral areas by organised crime. Territory, Politics, Governance, 2023
- Moving beyond informality-of-need and informality-of-desire: Insights from a southern (European) perspective. Planning Theory, 2021
- Beyond proper political squatting: exploring individualistic need-based occupations in a public housing neighbourhood in Naples. Housing Studies, 2021
- Global self-urbanism: housing self-organisation amidst the regulatory crisis and uneven urban citizenship. In: M. Lancione and C. McFarlane (Eds.) Global Urbanism. Knowledge, Power and the City. Routledge, 2021
- The many shades of grey in urban governance: How illegality shapes urban planning, policy and development. Political Geography, 2021
- The production of informal space: A critical atlas of housing informalities in Italy between public institutions and political strategies. Progress in Planning, 2021
- Juggling the formal and the informal: The regulatory environment of the illegal access to public housing in Naples. Geoforum, 2020
- The Dark Side of Urban Informality in the Global North: Housing Illegality and Organized Crime in Northern Italy. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2019
- The illicit side of urban development: Corruption and organised crime in the field of urban planning. Urban Studies, 2018
- The Illicit and Illegal in the Development and Governance of Cities and Regions: Corrupt Places. Routledge, 2017
- The Multifaceted Relation between Formal Institutions and the Production of Informal Urban Spaces: An Editorial Introduction, Geography Research Forum, 2016
- Corruption in land-use issues: a crucial challenge for planning theory and practice, Town Planning Review, 2015
- The complex nexus between informality and the law: Reconsidering unauthorised settlements in light of the concept of nomotropism, Geoforum, 2014
In Italian
- Le regole dell’informalità abitativa. Il caso del subentro illegale negli alloggi di edilizia pubblica a Napoli. Archivio di Studi Urbani e Regionali, 2021
- Occupazioni abusive in un contesto di edilizia residenziale pubblica a Napoli: una pratica individualistica? Argomenti, 2020
- Urbanistica tra corruzione e ’ndrangheta: il caso di Desio. Archivio di Studi Urbani e Regionali, 2018
PLANNING THEORY AND PRACTICE
i) The nexus between politics and technical knowledge in urban planning
In English
- Planning and Urban Citizenship: Suggestions from the Thoughts of Henri Lefebvre, Planning Perspectives, 2013
- Power in Space: Space Regulation amidst Techniques and Politics in the Global South. In: Chiodelli F., De Carli B., Falletti M., Scavuzzo L., (Eds) Cities to Be Tamed? Spatial Investigations Across the Urban South, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013
- Chiodelli F. (2012), “Re-politicizing Space through Technical Rules”, Planning Theory, 11 (2): 115-127.
In Italian
- Il ruolo del planner tra tecnica e politica, Archivio di Studi Urbani e Regionali, 2012
- L’urbanistica come tecnica: una riflessione a partire da Henri Lefebvre, Territorio, 2011
- Il centro dell’urbanistica: le regole tecniche”, Urbanistica, 2010
- La cittadinanza secondo Henri Lefebvre: urbana, attiva, a matrice spaziale, Territorio, 2009
- Verso un pensiero degli arcana. Suggestioni (per chi si occupa di pianificazione) in Carl Schmitt, Territorio, 2009
ii) The Transfer of Development Rights
In English
- The transfer of development rights in the midst of the economic crisis: potential, innovation and limits in Italy. Land Use Policy, 2018
- Zoning-integrative and zoning-alternative transferable development rights: Compensation, equity, efficiency, Land Use Policy, 2016
- Equal treatment in land use planning: investigating the ethics of the transfer of development rights, Scienze Regionali – Italian Journal of Regional Science, 2016
In Italian
- Il trasferimento dei diritti edificatori in Lombardia: Specificità e proposte di riforma. Scienze Regionali, 2019
- I valori della perequazione (e dell’urbanistica): di quali non possiamo fare a meno? Archivio di Studi Urbani e Regionali, 2015
- Il trasferimento dei diritti edificatori: spunti di riflessione da un seminario. Scienze Regionali, 2013
THE SPATIAL DIMENSION OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT OVER JERUSALEM
In English
- Urbicide, neo-colonial subjugation and the Gaza Strip. Political Geography, 2022
- The multifaceted politics of informality in Jerusalem at the time of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In R. Rocco and J. van Ballegooijen (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook on Informal Urbanization. Routledge, 2019
- Shaping Jerusalem. Spatial planning, politics and the conflict. Routledge, 2017
- Re-Shaping Jerusalem: the Transformation of Jerusalem’s Metropolitan Area by the Israeli Barrier, Cities, 2013
- The Next Jerusalem: Potential Futures of the Urban Fabric, Jerusalem Quarterly, 2013
- Planning illegality: The roots of unauthorised housing in Arab East Jerusalem”, Cities, 2012
- The Jerusalem Master Plan: Planning into the Conflict”, Jerusalem Quarterly, 2012
In Italian
- La “nuova Gerusalemme”. Una riflessione sulla possibile evoluzione dell’area metropolitana. In: De Martino C., Ed., Su Gerusalemme. Strategie per il controllo dello spazio urbano. Castelvecchi, 2013
- Gerusalemme contesa. Dimensioni urbane di un conflitto, Carocci, 2012
- Una guerra di pietra e cemento: il caso del Jerusalem Master Plan, Territorio, 2012
- Strategie demografiche a matrice spaziale. Demografia e governo del territorio nel conflitto israelo-palestinese su Gerusalemme, Archivio di Studi Urbani e Regionali, 2009
- La matrice del controllo. Il sistema della mobilità in Israele-Palestina, Territorio, 2008
THE REGULATION OF PLURALISM AND DIVERSITY IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPACES
In English
- Migration, Religion, and Residential Segregation at the Urban Level: The Case of Muslim Migrants in Rome and Milan. Sociological Inquiry, 2020
- Immigrants, mosques, and religious pluralism. Challenges for urban design and planning. In: T. Banerjee, A. Loukaitou-Sideris (eds.) The New Companion to Urban Design. Routledge, 2019
- Planning, pluralism and religious diversity: Critically reconsidering the spatial regulation of mosques in Italy starting from a much debated law in the Lombardy region, Cities, 2017
- Pluralism in private spaces: Homeowners associations, clubs, shopping malls. In: Moroni S., Weberman D. (Eds) Space and pluralism. Can our cities be places of tolerance? Central European University Press, 2015
- Religion and the city: A review on Muslim spatiality in Italian cities, Cities, 2015
- Do Malls Contribute to the Privatisation of Public Space and the Erosion of the Public Sphere? Reconsidering the Role of Shopping Centres, City, Culture and Society, 2015
- Typology of Spaces and Topology of Toleration: City, Pluralism and Ownership, Journal of Urban Affairs, 2014
- Public Spaces, Private Spaces, and the Right to the City, International Journal of E-Planning Research, 2014
- The relevance of public space: rethinking its material and political aspects. In: C. Basta, S. Moroni (Eds), Shared Spaces, Shared Values: Ethics, Design and Planning of the Built Environment, Springer, 2014
In Italian
- Spazi urbani e diritto alla città. CRIOS, 2017
- Urbanistica, moschee e altri luoghi di culto. Riflessioni a partire da una recente legge della regione Lombardia. CRIOS, 2016
- Indizi per orientarsi tra la letteratura sullo spazio pubblico: Don Mitchell e la rilevanza politica dello spazio pubblico. In Berruti G. (Ed). Esplorazioni urbanistiche dello spazio pubblico. INU Edizioni, 2016
- La spazialità islamica nelle città italiane: rilevanza, caratteristiche ed evoluzione. Archivio di Studi Urbani e Regionali, 2015
- Verso un’agenda per città multiculturali: la regolazione spaziale della diversità religiosa in Italia. In: A. G. Calafati (Ed), Città tra sviluppo e declino. Un’agenda urbana per l’Italia. Donzelli, 2014
- Municipal regulations and the use of public space: local ordinances in Italy. City, Territory and Architecture, 2014
- Il problema del pluralismo negli spazi privati: attriti tra diritti fondamentali, Territorio, 2014
- Città, spazi pubblici e pluralismo: una critica delle ordinanze sindacali, Quaderni di Scienza Politica, 2013
- Spazi pubblici e privati tra utopia e distopia: fatti, interpretazioni, problemi. Città in controluce, 2013
- Ruolo dello spazio pubblico e presunti rischi di una sua scomparsa, CRIOS, 2012
- Dimensioni spaziali della convivenza plurale: una ridiscussione critica dell’idea di tolleranza, CRIOS, 2011
HOUSING
ii) Housing informality and precarity
In English
- Reconceptualising housing emptiness beyond vacancy and abandonment. International Journal of Housing Policy, 2022
- Housing precarity. A fourfold epistemological lancet for dissecting the housing conditions of migrants. City, 2021
- The production of informal space: A critical atlas of housing informalities in Italy between public institutions and political strategies. Progress in Planning, 2021
- Beyond proper political squatting: exploring individualistic need-based occupations in a public housing neighbourhood in Naples. Housing Studies, 2021
- Informal housing of the rich: Clustering, isolating, and concealing in Bogotá, Colombia. Habitat International, 2021
- Juggling the formal and the informal: The regulatory environment of the illegal access to public housing in Naples. Geoforum, 2020
- The Dark Side of Urban Informality in the Global North: Housing Illegality and Organized Crime in Northern Italy. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2019
In Italian
ii) Cohousing and homeowners associations
In English
- Expatriates and the city: The spatialities of the high-skilled migrants’ transnational living in Moscow, Geoforum, 2018
- What is really different between cohousing and gated communities?, European Planning Studies, 2015
- Living Together Privately: for a Cautious Reading of Cohousing, Urban Research and Practice, 2014
In Italian
- Il cohousing ai tempi della crisi economica: una risposta all’emergenza abitativa? In: Quarta A., Spanò M. (Eds). Rispondere alla crisi. Comune, cooperazione sociale e diritto. Ombre Corte, 2017
- La comunità residenziale di San Felice a Milano. In: G. Brunetta, S. Moroni (Eds), La città intraprendente. Comunità contrattuali e sussidiarietà orizzontale, Carocci, 2011
- Esperienze di cohousing a Milano e Torino. In: G. Brunetta, S. Moroni (Eds), La città intraprendente. Comunità contrattuali e sussidiarietà orizzontale, Carocci, 2011
- L’albergo diffuso di S. Stefano di Sessanio. In: G. Brunetta, S. Moroni (Eds), La città intraprendente. Comunità contrattuali e sussidiarietà orizzontale, Carocci, 2011.
- Enclaves private a carattere residenziale: il caso del co-housing, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, 2010.
- Residential Private Enclaves. Falsi miti e vere sfide delle associazioni residenziali, Scienze Regionali – Italian Journal of Regional Science, 2010
INFORMALITY IN THE “GLOBAL SOUTH”
In English
- Informal housing of the rich: Clustering, isolating, and concealing in Bogotá, Colombia. Habitat International, 2021
- Inverse Planning in the Cracks of Formal Land Use Regulation: The Bottom-Up Regularisation of Informal Settlements in Maputo, Mozambique. Planning Theory and Practice, 2019
- Discrete emergence of neoliberal policies on public space: an informal Business Improvement District in Istanbul, Turkey, Urban Geography, 2018
- International Housing Policy for the Urban Poor and the Informal City in the Global South: A Non-Diachronic Review, Journal of International Development, 2016
- Cities to Be Tamed? Spatial Investigations Across the Urban South, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013
In Italian
- Governare l’ingovernabile. Politiche degli slum nel XXI secolo. ETS Edizioni, 2018Pisa
- Il Cairo, mega-city o mega-slum? Evoluzione demografica ed elementi della forma urbana della capitale egiziana, Territorio, 2009
URBAN POVERTY
In Italian
- Le politiche pro-people contro la concentrazione della povertà urbana: il caso dei mobility programs statunitensi, Archivio di Studi Urbani e Regionali, 2011
- Le componenti spaziali della povertà urbana. In: Chiappero E., Moroni S., Nuvolati G. (Eds), Gli spazi della povertà: strumenti di indagine e prospettive di intervento, Bruno Mondadori, 2011
- La dimensione spaziale della povertà. In: Chiappero E., Moroni S., Nuvolati G. (Eds), Gli spazi della povertà: strumenti di indagine e prospettive di intervento, Bruno Mondadori, 2011
- Politiche, spazio, povertà. In: Chiappero E., Moroni S., Nuvolati G. (Eds), Gli spazi della povertà: strumenti di indagine e prospettive di intervento, Bruno Mondadori, 2011
- Una pluralità di opzioni di intervento. In: Chiappero E., Moroni S., Nuvolati G. (Eds), Gli spazi della povertà: strumenti di indagine e prospettive di intervento, Bruno Mondadori, 2011