Docente esterno e/o collaboratore didattico
Doctoral School (SCDOTT)
Associate Professor (Unito)
Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST)
- Member of Interdepartmental Center FULL - Future Urban Legacy Lab
Profile
Research interests
Biography
I am associate professor in urban and legal geography at the University of Turin (Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning), where I direct OMERO - Interdepartmental Research Centre for Urban Studies. From 2013 to 2020 I worked at the Gran Sasso Science Institute (l'Aquila), where I contributed to create and manage the international PhD programme in Urban Studies. My research lies at the intersection of urban space and institutions (norms and rules in particular), with a specific focus on issues of illegality, informality, conflict, diversity and pluralism. My articles have appeared in leading international journals in the field of geography, urban planning and urban studies. I have also published the monograph "Shaping Jerusalem. Spatial planning, politics and the conflict' (Routledge, 2017) and co-edited the volume "The Illicit and Illegal in Regional and Urban Governance and Development. Corrupt Places" (Routledge, 2018). I write regularly for some Italian newspapers, such as Il Manifesto and Huffington Post Italia.
Curriculum
Skills
ERC sectors
SDG
Teaching
Collegi of the PhD programmes
- URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2024/2025 (40. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2023/2024 (39. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2022/2023 (38. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2021/2022 (37. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2020/2021 (36. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - URBAN STUDIES AND REGIONAL SCIENCE, 2019/2020 (35. ciclo)
Gran Sasso Science Institute - Scuola di dottorato internazionale - URBAN STUDIES AND REGIONAL SCIENCE, 2018/2019 (34. ciclo)
Gran Sasso Science Institute - Scuola di dottorato internazionale - URBAN STUDIES AND REGIONAL SCIENCE, 2017/2018 (33. ciclo)
Gran Sasso Science Institute - Scuola di dottorato internazionale - URBAN STUDIES AND REGIONAL SCIENCE, 2016/2017 (32. ciclo)
Gran Sasso Science Institute - Scuola di dottorato internazionale - URBAN STUDIES, 2015/2016 (31. ciclo)
Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e Perfezionamento Sant'Anna - URBAN STUDIES, 2014/2015 (30. ciclo)
Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e Perfezionamento Sant'Anna
Teachings
PhD
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Academic Galaxy. A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE E DELLA PRODUZIONE. Main teacher
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Academic Galaxy. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE E DELLA PRODUZIONE. Main teacher
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Academic Galaxy. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE E DELLA PRODUZIONE. Main teacher
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Academic Galaxy. A.A. 2022/23, GESTIONE, PRODUZIONE E DESIGN. Main teacher
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Academic Galaxy.That is:Basic knowledge about writing,presenting, publishing,looking for academic positions and many other trivial,but fundamental aspects of academic life. A.A. 2021/22, GESTIONE, PRODUZIONE E DESIGN. Main teacher
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Academic Galaxy. A.A. 2020/21, URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Main teacher
- Housing for whom? Scratching the surface of urban inequalities and conflicts. A.A. 2020/21, URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Teaching assistant
- Qualitative research methods in global urban studies. A.A. 2019/20, URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Main teacher
Research
Centres
Supervised PhD students
- Pietro Battaglini. Programme in Urban And Regional Development (40th cycle, 2024-in progress)
- Matteo Beltramo. Programme in Urban And Regional Development (40th cycle, 2024-in progress)
- Angelina Grelle. Programme in Urban And Regional Development (38th cycle, 2022-in progress)
- Giulia Massenz. Programme in Urban And Regional Development (38th cycle, 2022-in progress)
- Francesco Nurra. Programme in Urban And Regional Development (35th cycle, 2019-2023)
Thesis: The diversity of retail trade in contemporary cities: a geographical perspective. From informal street vending to halal landscapes
Other activities and projects related to research
My research lies at the intersection of urban space and institutions (norms and rules in particular), with a specific focus on issues of illegality, informality, conflict, diversity and pluralism. Currently, I am mainly working on housing informality in Southern European countries and on different manifestations of illegality in the urban sphere (including corruption in urban planning and criminal infiltration in urban governance and development). I have extensively studied the spatial dimension of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over Jerusalem.
My articles have appeared in leading international journals in the field of geography, urban planning and urban studies, such as Transaction of the institute of British Geographers, Urban Studies, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Political Geography, Housing Studies, Progress in Planning, Planning Theory, Town Planning Review and Urban Geography.
I have also published the monograph Shaping Jerusalem. Spatial planning, politics and the conflict (Routledge, 2017) and co-edited the volume The Illicit and Illegal in Regional and Urban Governance and Development. Corrupt Places (Routledge, 2018).?
Publications
Last years publications
Publications by type
Most cited publications View all publications in Porto@Iris
- Chiodelli, F.; Moroni, S. (2014)
The complex nexus between informality and the law: Reconsidering unauthorised settlements in light of the concept of nomotropism. In: GEOFORUM, vol. 51, pp. 161-168. ISSN 0016-7185
Contributo su Rivista - Chiodelli, Francesco; Coppola, Alessandro; Belotti, Emanuele; Berruti, Gilda; Clough ... (2021)
The production of informal space: A critical atlas of housing informalities in Italy between public institutions and political strategies. In: PROGRESS IN PLANNING, vol. 149. ISSN 0305-9006
Contributo su Rivista - Chiodelli, F. (2019)
The Dark Side of Urban Informality in the Global North: Housing Illegality and Organized Crime in Northern Italy. In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH, vol. 43, pp. 497-516. ISSN 0309-1317
Contributo su Rivista - Chiodelli, F.; Baglione, V. (2014)
Living together privately: for a cautious reading of cohousing. In: URBAN RESEARCH & PRACTICE, vol. 7, pp. 20-34. ISSN 1753-5069
Contributo su Rivista - Chiodelli, F.; Moroni, S. (2015)
Corruption in land-use issues: A crucial challenge for planning theory and practice. In: TOWN PLANNING REVIEW, vol. 86, pp. 437-455. ISSN 0041-0020
Contributo su Rivista - Chiodelli, F.; Moroni, S. (2016)
Zoning-integrative and zoning-alternative transferable development rights: Compensation, equity, efficiency. In: LAND USE POLICY, vol. 52, pp. 422-429. ISSN 0264-8377
Contributo su Rivista - Chiodelli, F. (2019)
The illicit side of urban development: Corruption and organised crime in the field of urban planning. In: URBAN STUDIES, vol. 56, pp. 1611-1627. ISSN 0042-0980
Contributo su Rivista - Chiodelli, F.; Moroni, S. (2014)
Typology of spaces and topology of toleration: City, pluralism, ownership. In: JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS, vol. 36, pp. 167-181. ISSN 0735-2166
Contributo su Rivista - Chiodelli, F. (2015)
Religion and the city: A review on Muslim spatiality in Italian cities. In: CITIES, vol. 44, pp. 19-28. ISSN 0264-2751
Contributo su Rivista - Chiodelli, F. (2015)
What is really different between cohousing and gated communities?. In: EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES, vol. 23, pp. 2566-2581. ISSN 0965-4313
Contributo su Rivista