Marco Del Fiore

Ph.D. candidate in Urban And Regional Development , 38^th cycle (2022-2025)
Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST)

Adjunct lecturer/Adjunct instructor
Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST)

External Collaborator
Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST)

marco.delfiore@polito.it

Profile

PhD

Thesis title

Institutional and Governance Innovation in Territorial Policies. Tackling the Experimentalist Challenges in European Fragile Territories.

Research topic

Left behind places, instrumental and institutional innovations

Tutors

Loris Antonio Servillo
Abdel Illah Hamdouch

Keywords

Cultural and social innovation

Urban studies

Human, economic and political geography

Urban and regional governance

Spatial planning

Biography

Marco Del Fiore is an urban planner and a PhD Candidate in Urban and Regional Development at Politecnico di Torino. He holds a master’s degree in “Territorial, Urban, Environmental and Landscape planning” between Politecnico di Torino and Sorbonne Université de Paris. He holds a second-level master’s degree in spatial planning from Sapienza Università di Roma, with an internship at the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers on European territorial cooperation.
He is researching at FULL (Future Urban Legacy Lab), an interdepartmental centre of the Politecnico di Torino. He is a member of the Youth Council of Interreg ALCOTRA Programme.

Awards and Honors

Admission for the academic year 2024/2025 at the "Fondation Maison de l'Italie" for accommodation at the "Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris" as a visiting PhD candidate at Sciences Po." (2024)
Best paper under 40, SIU - Società Italiana degli Urbanisti | La costruzione di ambiti territoriali tra soft planning e immaginari spaziali: il caso studio del Saluzzese e delle Terre del Monviso (2024) (2024)

Teaching

Teachings

Master of Science

Progetto di riqualificazione e valorizzazione del patrimonio (modulo di Urbanistica). A.A. 2025/26, ARCHITETTURA PER IL PATRIMONIO. Collaboratore del corso
Architecture, society and territory A (modulo di Urban planning). A.A. 2025/26, ARCHITETTURA PER LA SOSTENIBILITA'. Collaboratore del corso

Publications

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Cestaro, Luca; Del Fiore, Marco; Fontana, Mauro; Servillo, Loris (In stampa)
Geografie prioritarie italiane: traiettorie di sviluppo tra politiche area-based e governance multilivello. In: LE PERIFERIE DEI FORTI. Politiche area-based in Lombardia in una prospettiva europea: rappresentazioni del territorio, idee di sviluppo, modelli di governance / S.N., S.L., Mimesis
Contributo in Volume
Del Fiore, Marco; Cestaro, Luca (In stampa)
Pratiche di publicness territoriale: lo strumento del GECT come paradigma transfrontaliero. In: Publicness: le sfide della dimensione pubblica nelle città e nei territori. XXVII Conferenza Nazionale della Società Italiana degli Urbanisti Milano, Milano (ITA), 18-20 giugno 2025
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
Coletti, R.; Cestaro, L.; Del Fiore, M.; Milone, A.; Palermo, F.; Parolari, S.; Salerno, ... (2026)
I Gruppi europei di cooperazione territoriale in Italia. Roma, Cnr Edizioni, P. 228. ISBN: 978 88 8080 807 7
Libro
Del Fiore, Marco; Serra, Federica (2025)
From Mining to Forest: Environmental Legacies and Sustainable Regeneration in Alpine Territories. The Valsesia Case Study. In: REVUE DE GEOGRAPHIE ALPINE, vol. 113, pp. 1-9. ISSN 1760-7426
Contributo su Rivista
Del Fiore, Marco; Cestaro, Luca; Servillo, Loris (2025)
Beyond Formal Structures: The Role of Institutionalised Support Centres in Cross-border Cooperation Governance in Italy. In: Planning as a transformative action in an age of planetary crisis, Istanbul (TR), Monday 7 July 2025 - Friday 11 July 2025
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)