Giulio Verdini
Biographic Data
| ID | 2202603 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giulio Verdini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giulio |
| FAMILY NAME | Verdini |
| SIGNATURE | VERDINI G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Westminster |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8375-5633 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Olivier Sykes, David Shaw and Brian Webb, International Planning Studies
This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0
Localising and reimagining urban planning knowledge for effective Global South climate urbanism
This paper acknowledges the limitations of the current system of urban knowledge production concerning climate change and its applicability to the Global South. It explores whether climate urbanism pedagogy, emerging in higher education, takes effectively into consideration local contexts and how this translates into curricula innovation. Drawing on insights from 14 interviews with engaged scholars and practitioners, the paper argues that advanci…
Strategies and Sustainability in Motion
This article investigates the interplay between metropolitan mobility and climate change within the context of Greater London, emphasizing the city's challenge of balancing mitigation and adaptation strategies in response to recent and ongoing climate impacts. Drawing on data analysis, a comprehensive literature review, and qualitative interviews, the research examines how climate change disrupts mobility dynamics and critically evaluates the eff…
Heritage-led regeneration in Chinese intermediary cities
This study examines Longchang, an intermediary city in China, to discern differences in its heritage-led regeneration compared to major Chinese cities. Despite the recent incremental shifts in China’s urban governance regime, which is characterised by ‘selective learning’ and ‘trial and error’ approaches, cities like Longchang, constrained by scant socio-institutional resources, perpetuate pro-growth tendencies in their regeneration. While progre…
Heritage Exclusivism in Postcolonial Algeria
This paper focuses on urban heritage meanings, values, and management challenges in postcolonial Algeria, and particularly on the question of exclusivism of non-traditional urban places in heritage discourse. In the process of reconstruction of homogenous national postcolonial cultural identities, local heritage views and perspectives are often ignored. This paper suggests looking simultaneously into national policies and legislative texts on urb…
Culture and Rural–Urban Revitalisation in South Africa
This book captures ground-breaking attempts to utilise culture in territorial development and regeneration processes in the context of South Africa and our 'new normal' brought by COVID-19, the fourth industrial revolution, and climate change the world over.\n\nThe importance of culture in rural-urban revitalisation has been underestimated in South Africa and the African continent at large. Despite some cultural initiatives that are still at deve…
Creative-led strategies for peripheral settlements and the uneasy transition towards sustainability
The creative cities discourse has long-overlooked the impact of the new creative economy regime on rural areas, often legitimazing arguable urban-biased policies. This paper illustrates how two small towns, in Asia and in Europe, have attempted to build creative settlements, setting up agendas for sustainability transition. This has implied a strategy to reposition the local economy around notions of culture and creativity, deconstructing mainstr…
Culture and Rural-Urban Revitalisation in South Africa
Urban China
In recent years, the Chinese government has attempted to pursue a new phase of urbanization, tackling some of the environmental and social costs of previous decades of tumultuous growth. A new agenda for urban sustainability has been put forward starting from the release of the National Urbanization Plan (NUP) in March 2014, (State Council of the People’s Republic of China [SCPRC], 2014), addressing the challenges posed in particular by the impac…
Planetary Urbanisation and the Built Heritage from a Non-Western Perspective
The process of planetary urbanisation, which is currently affecting a large part of the world, impacts on the existing built environment in an unprecedented way. Its dramatic rapidity often implies the sudden disappearance of traditional urban and rural structures and the rapid transformation of local cultures. Contextually, as never before, attempts to protect culture in its tangible and intangible expressions are increasingly central to interna…
Reframing China's heritage conservation discourse. Learning by testing civic engagement tools in a historic rural village
Urban heritage conservation in China has been subject to severe criticism, although there is now a sense of paradigm shift. Charters, declarations and agendas had the merit of filtering down the international discourse on heritage, while more innovative approaches were arising. The UNESCO Historic Urban Landscape recommendation, offers a new angle from which to observe this process of change. The underlying argument of this article is that HUL ca…
The role of geographical proximity in the establishment and development of science parks –evidence from Nanjing, China
The emergence of science parks is a relatively new phenomenon in China. Apart from the widely debated topics of university–industry linkages, collaboration among firms and spontaneous/policy-driven science parks, the development of science parks in China also has several distinguishing characteristics, such as their ambiguous linkage with urban expansion and their hierarchical structuring pattern. This paper attempts to discuss the motivation and…
Is the incipient Chinese civil society playing a role in regenerating historic urban areas? Evidence from Nanjing, Suzhou and Shanghai
The costs of urban growth at the fringe of a Chinese city
The rate of city growth in China today correlates well with an overall loss of the most fertile agricultural areas of the country. A consequence of this growth includes the rapid reshaping of peri-urban livelihoods in their densely populated fringe. The policy response from central government has focused on containing city growth and pursuing modern rural development. Both policy directions have failed, in part, to acknowledge the intrinsic natur…
Is the incipient Chinese civil society playing a role in regenerating historic urban areas? Evidence from Nanjing, Suzhou and Shanghai
Reframing China's heritage conservation discourse. Learning by testing civic engagement tools in a historic rural village
Urban heritage conservation in China has been subject to severe criticism, although there is now a sense of paradigm shift. Charters, declarations and agendas had the merit of filtering down the international discourse on heritage, while more innovative approaches were arising. The UNESCO Historic Urban Landscape recommendation, offers a new angle from which to observe this process of change. The underlying argument of this article is that HUL ca…
The costs of urban growth at the fringe of a Chinese city
The rate of city growth in China today correlates well with an overall loss of the most fertile agricultural areas of the country. A consequence of this growth includes the rapid reshaping of peri-urban livelihoods in their densely populated fringe. The policy response from central government has focused on containing city growth and pursuing modern rural development. Both policy directions have failed, in part, to acknowledge the intrinsic natur…
Planetary Urbanisation and the Built Heritage from a Non-Western Perspective
The process of planetary urbanisation, which is currently affecting a large part of the world, impacts on the existing built environment in an unprecedented way. Its dramatic rapidity often implies the sudden disappearance of traditional urban and rural structures and the rapid transformation of local cultures. Contextually, as never before, attempts to protect culture in its tangible and intangible expressions are increasingly central to interna…
The costs of urban growth at the fringe of a Chinese city
The rate of city growth in China today correlates well with an overall loss of the most fertile agricultural areas of the country. A consequence of this growth includes the rapid reshaping of peri-urban livelihoods in their densely populated fringe. The policy response from central government has focused on containing city growth and pursuing modern rural development. Both policy directions have failed, in part, to acknowledge the intrinsic natur…
The role of geographical proximity in the establishment and development of science parks –evidence from Nanjing, China
The emergence of science parks is a relatively new phenomenon in China. Apart from the widely debated topics of university–industry linkages, collaboration among firms and spontaneous/policy-driven science parks, the development of science parks in China also has several distinguishing characteristics, such as their ambiguous linkage with urban expansion and their hierarchical structuring pattern. This paper attempts to discuss the motivation and…
Is the incipient Chinese civil society playing a role in regenerating historic urban areas? Evidence from Nanjing, Suzhou and Shanghai
Planetary Urbanisation and the Built Heritage from a Non-Western Perspective
The process of planetary urbanisation, which is currently affecting a large part of the world, impacts on the existing built environment in an unprecedented way. Its dramatic rapidity often implies the sudden disappearance of traditional urban and rural structures and the rapid transformation of local cultures. Contextually, as never before, attempts to protect culture in its tangible and intangible expressions are increasingly central to interna…
Reframing China's heritage conservation discourse. Learning by testing civic engagement tools in a historic rural village
Urban heritage conservation in China has been subject to severe criticism, although there is now a sense of paradigm shift. Charters, declarations and agendas had the merit of filtering down the international discourse on heritage, while more innovative approaches were arising. The UNESCO Historic Urban Landscape recommendation, offers a new angle from which to observe this process of change. The underlying argument of this article is that HUL ca…
Urban China
In recent years, the Chinese government has attempted to pursue a new phase of urbanization, tackling some of the environmental and social costs of previous decades of tumultuous growth. A new agenda for urban sustainability has been put forward starting from the release of the National Urbanization Plan (NUP) in March 2014, (State Council of the People’s Republic of China [SCPRC], 2014), addressing the challenges posed in particular by the impac…
Culture and Rural–Urban Revitalisation in South Africa
This book captures ground-breaking attempts to utilise culture in territorial development and regeneration processes in the context of South Africa and our 'new normal' brought by COVID-19, the fourth industrial revolution, and climate change the world over.\n\nThe importance of culture in rural-urban revitalisation has been underestimated in South Africa and the African continent at large. Despite some cultural initiatives that are still at deve…
Creative-led strategies for peripheral settlements and the uneasy transition towards sustainability
The creative cities discourse has long-overlooked the impact of the new creative economy regime on rural areas, often legitimazing arguable urban-biased policies. This paper illustrates how two small towns, in Asia and in Europe, have attempted to build creative settlements, setting up agendas for sustainability transition. This has implied a strategy to reposition the local economy around notions of culture and creativity, deconstructing mainstr…
Culture and Rural-Urban Revitalisation in South Africa
Heritage Exclusivism in Postcolonial Algeria
This paper focuses on urban heritage meanings, values, and management challenges in postcolonial Algeria, and particularly on the question of exclusivism of non-traditional urban places in heritage discourse. In the process of reconstruction of homogenous national postcolonial cultural identities, local heritage views and perspectives are often ignored. This paper suggests looking simultaneously into national policies and legislative texts on urb…
Heritage-led regeneration in Chinese intermediary cities
This study examines Longchang, an intermediary city in China, to discern differences in its heritage-led regeneration compared to major Chinese cities. Despite the recent incremental shifts in China’s urban governance regime, which is characterised by ‘selective learning’ and ‘trial and error’ approaches, cities like Longchang, constrained by scant socio-institutional resources, perpetuate pro-growth tendencies in their regeneration. While progre…
Olivier Sykes, David Shaw and Brian Webb, International Planning Studies
This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0
Localising and reimagining urban planning knowledge for effective Global South climate urbanism
This paper acknowledges the limitations of the current system of urban knowledge production concerning climate change and its applicability to the Global South. It explores whether climate urbanism pedagogy, emerging in higher education, takes effectively into consideration local contexts and how this translates into curricula innovation. Drawing on insights from 14 interviews with engaged scholars and practitioners, the paper argues that advanci…
Strategies and Sustainability in Motion
This article investigates the interplay between metropolitan mobility and climate change within the context of Greater London, emphasizing the city's challenge of balancing mitigation and adaptation strategies in response to recent and ongoing climate impacts. Drawing on data analysis, a comprehensive literature review, and qualitative interviews, the research examines how climate change disrupts mobility dynamics and critically evaluates the eff…
Geography (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Economics (7 works) · China (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (4 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (4 works) · Economic geography (4 works) · Environmental planning (4 works)