Francesco Chiodelli
Biographic Data
| ID | 305481 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francesco Chiodelli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francesco |
| FAMILY NAME | Chiodelli |
| SIGNATURE | CHIODELLI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gran Sasso Science Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9881-4616 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 199 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Polyrhythmic marginalities and chronopolitics: A rhythmanalysis of a railway station
The train station is a complex and controversial public space, characterized by a varied temporal dimension. • Multiple urban rhythms are identified in the railway station of Bergamo, Italy. • The crescendo of urban and infrastructure development, and the sinusoidal rhythms of commuters and travelers are analysed. • The rhythms of endurance of marginalised and homeless people are investigated. • A rhythmical reading of marginality is provided, sh…
Research methods for legal geography
This paper provides an overview of the research techniques that can be used for explorations in legal geography, highlighting the multiple instruments available in the legal geographer's methodological toolkit. These diverse methods stem from a twofold shift away from the ‘ordinary’ research techniques of human geography. This shift has entailed first, the adaptation of traditional qualitative methods, such as ethnography or interviews, to resear…
Three theses on informal housing in Europe
This editorial introduction to the Special Issue ‘The rules, institutions and politics of housing informality in Europe’ argues for a more holistic interpretation to housing informality in Europe as a critical heuristic for re-thinking the dynamics of informality in the global North. In so doing, it offers three modest theses. First, housing informality is an endogenous phenomenon in the development of European cities, closely connected to the lo…
Criminal accumulation by dispossession: The exploitation of property development in peripheral areas by organised crime
The paper discusses the infiltration of mafia-type organised crime groups (OCGs) in property development, with a particular focus on peripheral areas. It has two main aims. First, to shed light on the fact that mafia-type OCGs often become active players in this industry. Second, to identify those place-bound aspects that foster their infiltration. To this end, the article reviews recent cases of infiltration in the sphere of urban development wi…
Toward a fine-grained understanding of informality: Subjective meanings, perceptions, and expectations in informal housing trajectories
This article focuses on the role of subjective meanings in the production of informal housing. It argues that, although individual and family meanings, aspirations, perceptions, and expectations have usually been overlooked in studies on urban informality, their analysis is fundamental for a sophisticated understanding of the genesis, features, and developing trajectories of informal housing. To this end, the article investigates the informalizat…
Beyond proper political squatting: Exploring individualistic need-based occupations in a public housing neighbourhood in Naples
The public and academic debate about urban squatting in Western cities has been dominated by research on collectively organized, politically-motivated occupations. By contrast, occupations promoted to fulfil urgent housing needs by uncoordinated urban poor without any connection with activists (i.e. need-based squatting) have been far less explored. The present paper contributes to filling this research gap concerning squatting as a sheltering st…
Placing the law: The socio‐spatial impact of legal norms beyond mere compliance
This paper explores the complex ways in which a legal norm can influence a socio‐spatial context. More precisely, the paper aims to contribute to the theoretical investigation of the nexus between law and space in the field of legal geography by proposing an analytical framework for the study of the spatial operativity of law beyond compliance. To do so, this work relies on the concepts of nomotropism (namely, “acting in light of the rule”) and e…
Urbicide, neo-colonial subjugation and the Gaza Strip
The production of informal space: A critical atlas of housing informalities in Italy between public institutions and political strategies
Le regole dell'informalità abitativa. Il caso del subentro illegale negli alloggi di edilizia pubblica a Napoli
L'articolo presenta i risultati di una ricerca etnografica condotta nel complesso di case popolari del rione De Gasperi a Ponticelli, nell'area orientale di Napoli, dove la pratica di occupare informalmente un alloggio pubblico e fortemente radicata da decenni. Il saggio indaga una forma peculiare, il "subentro informale", di cui viene analizzato il funzionamento. L'obiettivo e mostrare l'informalita abitativa come risultato di un sistema di infl…
Moving beyond informality-of-need and informality-of-desire: Insights from a southern (European) perspective
Housing precarity: A fourfold epistemological lancet for dissecting the housing conditions of migrants
This paper puts forward the relevance of the concept of precarity in the investigation of the housing conditions of migrants. With this aim, the article presents an inductive journey, anchored in the analysis of the roots of migrant housing problems in Italy. Specific attention is paid to the connection of causal factors internal to the housing system (e.g. the shortcomings of the public housing system, the marginality of the private rental marke…
Informal housing of the rich: Clustering, isolating, and concealing in Bogotá, Colombia
The many shades of grey in urban governance: How illegality shapes urban planning, policy and development
Juggling the formal and the informal: The regulatory environment of the illegal access to public housing in Naples
Migration, Religion, and Residential Segregation at the Urban Level: The Case of Muslim Migrants in Rome and Milan
This article investigates residential segregation at the intraurban level of migrants in two Italian cities, Rome and Milan, considering religion as a point of reference in light of its pivotal role in terms of identity references for many migrants. The article focuses in particular on Muslim migrants-due to both the magnitude of their presence and complex issues related to their settlement in Italian cities. The analysis shows a low level of int…
The illicit side of urban development: Corruption and organised crime in the field of urban planning
The paper deals with issues of corruption in the planning domain. It centres on thorough analysis of the case of Desio (Milan, Italy), where a recent judicial inquiry discovered several instances of corruption related to the drafting of the local master plan, in an environment characterised by the rooted presence of a mafia-type organisation known as the ’Ndrangheta. The study sheds light on the various types of corrupt practices that prevail in …
The Dark Side of Urban Informality in the Global North: Housing Illegality and Organized Crime in Northern Italy
This article deals with housing illegality/informality in Italy, where it represents an established aspect of urban development. It presents a case study focused on Desio, a town close to Milan in northern Italy. Here housing illegality occurs by virtue of the well-established presence of a mafia-type criminal organization (the 'Ndrangheta). Three examples of illegal construction in Desio are analysed, forming the basis for a discussion on the di…
The transfer of development rights in the midst of the economic crisis: Potential, innovation and limits in Italy
Expatriates and the city: The spatialities of the high-skilled migrants’ transnational living in Moscow
The Illicit and Illegal in Regional and Urban Governance and Development: Corrupt Places
Discrete emergence of neoliberal policies on public space: An informal Business Improvement District in Istanbul, Turkey
This article investigates the birth and evolution of a Business Improvement District (BID) in Talimhane, Istanbul, which is the first case of use of this instrument of neoliberal governance in the Turkish city. The distinctive nature of the Talimhane BID consists in the fact that it has been developed through a series of informal and piecemeal arrangements. The article first reviews the evolution, characteristics, and critical aspects of BIDs. It…
Planning, pluralism and religious diversity: Critically reconsidering the spatial regulation of mosques in Italy starting from a much debated law in the Lombardy region
Shaping Jerusalem: Spatial planning, politics and the conflict
Zoning-integrative and zoning-alternative transferable development rights: Compensation, equity, efficiency
The complex nexus between informality and the law: Reconsidering unauthorised settlements in light of the concept of nomotropism
Typology of Spaces and Topology of Toleration: City, Pluralism, Ownership
The aim of this paper is primarily to lay down a convincing typology of spaces in connection with property rights and management. Instead of the two main ownership models (private and public property) usually pinpointed, we argue that it is more fitting to speak of a plurality of property regimes. So, in this work, we identify and explain six sub-categories: i) stricto sensu public spaces; ii) special public spaces; iii) privately run public spac…
The Dark Side of Urban Informality in the Global North: Housing Illegality and Organized Crime in Northern Italy
This article deals with housing illegality/informality in Italy, where it represents an established aspect of urban development. It presents a case study focused on Desio, a town close to Milan in northern Italy. Here housing illegality occurs by virtue of the well-established presence of a mafia-type criminal organization (the 'Ndrangheta). Three examples of illegal construction in Desio are analysed, forming the basis for a discussion on the di…
Zoning-integrative and zoning-alternative transferable development rights: Compensation, equity, efficiency
Housing precarity: A fourfold epistemological lancet for dissecting the housing conditions of migrants
This paper puts forward the relevance of the concept of precarity in the investigation of the housing conditions of migrants. With this aim, the article presents an inductive journey, anchored in the analysis of the roots of migrant housing problems in Italy. Specific attention is paid to the connection of causal factors internal to the housing system (e.g. the shortcomings of the public housing system, the marginality of the private rental marke…
Juggling the formal and the informal: The regulatory environment of the illegal access to public housing in Naples
The illicit side of urban development: Corruption and organised crime in the field of urban planning
The paper deals with issues of corruption in the planning domain. It centres on thorough analysis of the case of Desio (Milan, Italy), where a recent judicial inquiry discovered several instances of corruption related to the drafting of the local master plan, in an environment characterised by the rooted presence of a mafia-type organisation known as the ’Ndrangheta. The study sheds light on the various types of corrupt practices that prevail in …
Expatriates and the city: The spatialities of the high-skilled migrants’ transnational living in Moscow
The transfer of development rights in the midst of the economic crisis: Potential, innovation and limits in Italy
Planning, pluralism and religious diversity: Critically reconsidering the spatial regulation of mosques in Italy starting from a much debated law in the Lombardy region
Planning illegality: The roots of unauthorised housing in Arab East Jerusalem
Re-shaping Jerusalem: The transformation of Jerusalem’s metropolitan area by the Israeli barrier
Placing the law: The socio‐spatial impact of legal norms beyond mere compliance
This paper explores the complex ways in which a legal norm can influence a socio‐spatial context. More precisely, the paper aims to contribute to the theoretical investigation of the nexus between law and space in the field of legal geography by proposing an analytical framework for the study of the spatial operativity of law beyond compliance. To do so, this work relies on the concepts of nomotropism (namely, “acting in light of the rule”) and e…
The many shades of grey in urban governance: How illegality shapes urban planning, policy and development
Beyond proper political squatting: Exploring individualistic need-based occupations in a public housing neighbourhood in Naples
The public and academic debate about urban squatting in Western cities has been dominated by research on collectively organized, politically-motivated occupations. By contrast, occupations promoted to fulfil urgent housing needs by uncoordinated urban poor without any connection with activists (i.e. need-based squatting) have been far less explored. The present paper contributes to filling this research gap concerning squatting as a sheltering st…
Informal housing of the rich: Clustering, isolating, and concealing in Bogotá, Colombia
Re-politicizing space through technical rules
The paper focuses on the concept of technical rules (according to an Aristotelian interpretation, that is to say as propositions that express a necessity: if you want x, you must do y). The thesis argued is that this concept is helpful in coping with some of the problems of both teleological and deontological planning theories. In particular the concept is useful in emphasizing the role of technical knowledge in planning and in ‘solving the relat…
Urbicide, neo-colonial subjugation and the Gaza Strip
Moving beyond informality-of-need and informality-of-desire: Insights from a southern (European) perspective
Research methods for legal geography
This paper provides an overview of the research techniques that can be used for explorations in legal geography, highlighting the multiple instruments available in the legal geographer's methodological toolkit. These diverse methods stem from a twofold shift away from the ‘ordinary’ research techniques of human geography. This shift has entailed first, the adaptation of traditional qualitative methods, such as ethnography or interviews, to resear…
Criminal accumulation by dispossession: The exploitation of property development in peripheral areas by organised crime
The paper discusses the infiltration of mafia-type organised crime groups (OCGs) in property development, with a particular focus on peripheral areas. It has two main aims. First, to shed light on the fact that mafia-type OCGs often become active players in this industry. Second, to identify those place-bound aspects that foster their infiltration. To this end, the article reviews recent cases of infiltration in the sphere of urban development wi…
Migration, Religion, and Residential Segregation at the Urban Level: The Case of Muslim Migrants in Rome and Milan
This article investigates residential segregation at the intraurban level of migrants in two Italian cities, Rome and Milan, considering religion as a point of reference in light of its pivotal role in terms of identity references for many migrants. The article focuses in particular on Muslim migrants-due to both the magnitude of their presence and complex issues related to their settlement in Italian cities. The analysis shows a low level of int…
Discrete emergence of neoliberal policies on public space: An informal Business Improvement District in Istanbul, Turkey
This article investigates the birth and evolution of a Business Improvement District (BID) in Talimhane, Istanbul, which is the first case of use of this instrument of neoliberal governance in the Turkish city. The distinctive nature of the Talimhane BID consists in the fact that it has been developed through a series of informal and piecemeal arrangements. The article first reviews the evolution, characteristics, and critical aspects of BIDs. It…
Re-politicizing space through technical rules
The paper focuses on the concept of technical rules (according to an Aristotelian interpretation, that is to say as propositions that express a necessity: if you want x, you must do y). The thesis argued is that this concept is helpful in coping with some of the problems of both teleological and deontological planning theories. In particular the concept is useful in emphasizing the role of technical knowledge in planning and in ‘solving the relat…
The Jerusalem Master Plan: Planning into the Conflict
this paper investigates the Jerusalem master Plan with reference to the israeli-Palestinian conflict over Jerusalem.the Jerusalem master Plan is the first comprehensive plan for the "whole" city (both the western and the eastern parts): for the first time, the comprehensive spatial vision of Jerusalem in the twenty-first century that the israeli authorities aim to realize is clearly expressed.in particular, the paper focuses on the theme of housi…
Planning illegality: The roots of unauthorised housing in Arab East Jerusalem
Typology of Spaces and Topology of Toleration: City, Pluralism, Ownership
The aim of this paper is primarily to lay down a convincing typology of spaces in connection with property rights and management. Instead of the two main ownership models (private and public property) usually pinpointed, we argue that it is more fitting to speak of a plurality of property regimes. So, in this work, we identify and explain six sub-categories: i) stricto sensu public spaces; ii) special public spaces; iii) privately run public spac…
Re-shaping Jerusalem: The transformation of Jerusalem’s metropolitan area by the Israeli barrier
The complex nexus between informality and the law: Reconsidering unauthorised settlements in light of the concept of nomotropism
Municipal regulations and the use of public space: Local ordinances in Italy
The article discusses the regulation of public space with specific reference to municipal by-laws. It focuses on the case of municipal “ordinances” in Italy. The basic features of the municipal by-laws will be described, and their application in recent years will be analysed. This will be followed by a critique of their particular implications concerning the use of space, with emphasis on the issue of regulating behaviour in public spaces on the …
Living together privately: For a cautious reading of cohousing
The paper analyses cohousing as a part of the phenomenon of private residential communities. First, we provide an overview of cohousing and we identify its five constitutive characteristics. Second, we propose a comparison between the constitutive features of cohousing and of other kinds of private residential communities. Third, we argue that the interpretation of cohousing within the context of private residential communities raises some doubts…
Introduction: City, Pluralism, and Toleration
“In various ways, places help to define what is good or bad conduct. ... The place of an act is part of our understanding of what is right, just and appropriate.” (Smith, )“It is a serious mistake to
Do malls contribute to the privatisation of public space and the erosion of the public sphere? Reconsidering the role of shopping centres
Religion and the city: A review on Muslim spatiality in Italian cities
Shaping Jerusalem: Spatial planning, politics and the conflict
Zoning-integrative and zoning-alternative transferable development rights: Compensation, equity, efficiency
The Illicit and Illegal in Regional and Urban Governance and Development: Corrupt Places
Discrete emergence of neoliberal policies on public space: An informal Business Improvement District in Istanbul, Turkey
This article investigates the birth and evolution of a Business Improvement District (BID) in Talimhane, Istanbul, which is the first case of use of this instrument of neoliberal governance in the Turkish city. The distinctive nature of the Talimhane BID consists in the fact that it has been developed through a series of informal and piecemeal arrangements. The article first reviews the evolution, characteristics, and critical aspects of BIDs. It…
Planning, pluralism and religious diversity: Critically reconsidering the spatial regulation of mosques in Italy starting from a much debated law in the Lombardy region
The transfer of development rights in the midst of the economic crisis: Potential, innovation and limits in Italy
Expatriates and the city: The spatialities of the high-skilled migrants’ transnational living in Moscow
The illicit side of urban development: Corruption and organised crime in the field of urban planning
The paper deals with issues of corruption in the planning domain. It centres on thorough analysis of the case of Desio (Milan, Italy), where a recent judicial inquiry discovered several instances of corruption related to the drafting of the local master plan, in an environment characterised by the rooted presence of a mafia-type organisation known as the ’Ndrangheta. The study sheds light on the various types of corrupt practices that prevail in …
The Dark Side of Urban Informality in the Global North: Housing Illegality and Organized Crime in Northern Italy
This article deals with housing illegality/informality in Italy, where it represents an established aspect of urban development. It presents a case study focused on Desio, a town close to Milan in northern Italy. Here housing illegality occurs by virtue of the well-established presence of a mafia-type criminal organization (the 'Ndrangheta). Three examples of illegal construction in Desio are analysed, forming the basis for a discussion on the di…
Juggling the formal and the informal: The regulatory environment of the illegal access to public housing in Naples
Migration, Religion, and Residential Segregation at the Urban Level: The Case of Muslim Migrants in Rome and Milan
This article investigates residential segregation at the intraurban level of migrants in two Italian cities, Rome and Milan, considering religion as a point of reference in light of its pivotal role in terms of identity references for many migrants. The article focuses in particular on Muslim migrants-due to both the magnitude of their presence and complex issues related to their settlement in Italian cities. The analysis shows a low level of int…
The production of informal space: A critical atlas of housing informalities in Italy between public institutions and political strategies
Le regole dell'informalità abitativa. Il caso del subentro illegale negli alloggi di edilizia pubblica a Napoli
L'articolo presenta i risultati di una ricerca etnografica condotta nel complesso di case popolari del rione De Gasperi a Ponticelli, nell'area orientale di Napoli, dove la pratica di occupare informalmente un alloggio pubblico e fortemente radicata da decenni. Il saggio indaga una forma peculiare, il "subentro informale", di cui viene analizzato il funzionamento. L'obiettivo e mostrare l'informalita abitativa come risultato di un sistema di infl…
Moving beyond informality-of-need and informality-of-desire: Insights from a southern (European) perspective
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