Leonardo Ramondetti
Biographic Data
| ID | 1341084 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leonardo Ramondetti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leonardo |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramondetti |
| SIGNATURE | RAMONDETTI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Politecnico di Torino |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3548-7686 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Resource exhaustion and territorial fragility
The concept of ‘planetary boundaries’ highlights the limits of Earth's biophysical systems, yet their manifestation within specific territories remains little explored. This article applies this framework to the Valtellina Valley, in the Alpine Region: a long-established water-based energy landscape that supplies 14% of Italy’s hydroelectricity. As climate change and hydrological shifts push this regional system toward water scarcity, renewed hyd…
The generative power of suspension in large-scale infrastructure projects
This article explores the generative role of suspension in large-scale infrastructural projects. While dominant narratives tend to categorise halted or incomplete projects as failures or stalls, this study reframes infrastructural suspension as a productive condition capable of catalysing urban transformations. This issue is examined drawing upon the case of Trieste, Italy, a port city involved in a variety of large-scale infrastructural projects…
Projects for the Chinese city 2000–2020
This article examines how international planning experts have addressed urbanization processes in central China. Over the last twenty-five years, this region has been subjected to great socio-economic transformations driven by a succession of urban policies: the municipal entrepreneurialism of the first decades of the twenty-first century, the agglomeration strategies of the 2010s, and the ‘new normal’ of the mid-2010s. These initiatives have tra…
Heterogeneous energy landscapes and the challenges for spatial planning
This article investigates how the changes in energy supply and the switch to renewable sources are transforming long-established industrial sites into novel energy landscapes. These are composed of heterogeneous spaces which pose challenges to the current governance of urban transformations, especially in terms of spatial planning. Such a trend is evident in sites with a high density of energy infrastructures, as well as a great degree of interde…
Untangling Infrastructure Networks Through Critical Cartographies
This article illustrates how to research complex infrastructure networks using critical cartography. Maps, infographics, and datascapes are employed to study how contemporary flows of goods, people, and money are redefining a specific location. This topic has been widely investigated in science and technology studies; however, it has seldom been addressed by applying visual methods. Cartography, in particular, is generally regarded as a subject o…
Envisioning rural futures
This paper presents an international competition called Future Shan-Shui City: Dwellings in the Lishui Mountains, promoted by Lishui Municipality (Zhejiang Province) in 2020, and examines the three award-winning projects: Future Super Shan-Shui Park by the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design, A Symbiotic Urban Change by Olivier Greder Architects, and Prosperous Lishui by South China University of Technology and Politecnico di Torino. By in…
Rescaling the Belt and Road Initiative in urban China
This study of the infrastructure-led developments and urban–rural relations in Liangjiang New Area (Chongqing municipality), Lanzhou New Area (Gansu province) and Zhengbian New District (Henan province) reveals the complex and multifaceted interactions of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with specific contexts and pre-existing trends. Far from depicting a homogenizing dynamic deriving from participation in a project often conceived in monolithi…
Rescaling the Belt and Road Initiative in urban China
This study of the infrastructure-led developments and urban–rural relations in Liangjiang New Area (Chongqing municipality), Lanzhou New Area (Gansu province) and Zhengbian New District (Henan province) reveals the complex and multifaceted interactions of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with specific contexts and pre-existing trends. Far from depicting a homogenizing dynamic deriving from participation in a project often conceived in monolithi…
Untangling Infrastructure Networks Through Critical Cartographies
This article illustrates how to research complex infrastructure networks using critical cartography. Maps, infographics, and datascapes are employed to study how contemporary flows of goods, people, and money are redefining a specific location. This topic has been widely investigated in science and technology studies; however, it has seldom been addressed by applying visual methods. Cartography, in particular, is generally regarded as a subject o…
Envisioning rural futures
This paper presents an international competition called Future Shan-Shui City: Dwellings in the Lishui Mountains, promoted by Lishui Municipality (Zhejiang Province) in 2020, and examines the three award-winning projects: Future Super Shan-Shui Park by the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design, A Symbiotic Urban Change by Olivier Greder Architects, and Prosperous Lishui by South China University of Technology and Politecnico di Torino. By in…
Rescaling the Belt and Road Initiative in urban China
This study of the infrastructure-led developments and urban–rural relations in Liangjiang New Area (Chongqing municipality), Lanzhou New Area (Gansu province) and Zhengbian New District (Henan province) reveals the complex and multifaceted interactions of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with specific contexts and pre-existing trends. Far from depicting a homogenizing dynamic deriving from participation in a project often conceived in monolithi…
Untangling Infrastructure Networks Through Critical Cartographies
This article illustrates how to research complex infrastructure networks using critical cartography. Maps, infographics, and datascapes are employed to study how contemporary flows of goods, people, and money are redefining a specific location. This topic has been widely investigated in science and technology studies; however, it has seldom been addressed by applying visual methods. Cartography, in particular, is generally regarded as a subject o…
Projects for the Chinese city 2000–2020
This article examines how international planning experts have addressed urbanization processes in central China. Over the last twenty-five years, this region has been subjected to great socio-economic transformations driven by a succession of urban policies: the municipal entrepreneurialism of the first decades of the twenty-first century, the agglomeration strategies of the 2010s, and the ‘new normal’ of the mid-2010s. These initiatives have tra…
Heterogeneous energy landscapes and the challenges for spatial planning
This article investigates how the changes in energy supply and the switch to renewable sources are transforming long-established industrial sites into novel energy landscapes. These are composed of heterogeneous spaces which pose challenges to the current governance of urban transformations, especially in terms of spatial planning. Such a trend is evident in sites with a high density of energy infrastructures, as well as a great degree of interde…
Resource exhaustion and territorial fragility
The concept of ‘planetary boundaries’ highlights the limits of Earth's biophysical systems, yet their manifestation within specific territories remains little explored. This article applies this framework to the Valtellina Valley, in the Alpine Region: a long-established water-based energy landscape that supplies 14% of Italy’s hydroelectricity. As climate change and hydrological shifts push this regional system toward water scarcity, renewed hyd…
The generative power of suspension in large-scale infrastructure projects
This article explores the generative role of suspension in large-scale infrastructural projects. While dominant narratives tend to categorise halted or incomplete projects as failures or stalls, this study reframes infrastructural suspension as a productive condition capable of catalysing urban transformations. This issue is examined drawing upon the case of Trieste, Italy, a port city involved in a variety of large-scale infrastructural projects…
Geography (5 works) · Regional science (4 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (4 works) · China (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (2 works) · Civil engineering (2 works) · Economic geography (2 works) · Environmental planning (2 works)