Lorenzo De VidovichUniversity of Trieste | UNITS · Department of Political and Social Sciences
Lorenzo De Vidovich
Doctor of Philosophy
Energy poverty | Renewable energy communities | Socio-spatial peripheries of COVID-19 pandemic | Post-suburbia
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Introduction
I am a social researcher dealing with territorial development, and I predominantly focus on the territorial dimension of welfare policies. My research interests span (post)suburban studies and urbanisation, energy transition between the study of energy poverty and the development renewable energy communities, critical urban theories, and the social-spatial implications of COVID-19 pandemic. I conduct empirical activities with a qualitative approach.
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September 2017 - July 2021
Position
- Research Assistant
Description
- Teaching Assistant for the following courses: Housing and Neighbourhood thematic studio (2017-18), Urban Design thematic studio (2018-19; 2019-20), Urbanistica thematic studio (2018-19; 2019-20), Space and Society course (2018-19; 2019-20), Urban Policy Design thematic studio (2020-21)
October 2016 - December 2017
Position
- Teaching Assistant
Description
- Governance and Local Welfare Systems", taught at the Master Programme in Sociology. Prof. Ota de Leonardis (2016-17; 2017-18)
Education
November 2016 - March 2020
July 2016 - July 2016
October 2013 - March 2016
Publications
Publications (59)
The interplay between the environmental issues – embedded in the climate crisis – and the sustainability of welfare systems is a recent research topic that is unfolding the complexities behind the environmental and the fiscal crises. Drawing on an extensive literature, this paper fits in this debate with a theoretical focus on ‘eco-welfare’ and the...
The article offers a survey of the main families of theories on territorial marginality, wondering if and how they have been undermined by the advent of the pandemic. The pan-demic, in fact, introduces the theme of the vulnerability of the territories and highlights the characteristics of the intermediate territories between urban and rural. These...
By observing the interdependencies that run between the environmental and the welfare crises, the article identifies and discusses the eco-welfare perspective as a valuable research and policy field to construe and develop contextual responses capable of addressing the social and environmental issues. To outline the main features of eco-welfare, ec...
Early access - Ente di apperenza: Università di Trieste. Copyright © by Società editrice il Mulino, Bologna. Tutti i diritti sono riservati.
According to the great increase of energy expenditure in the Italian case, the topic of energy is gaining a significant relevance both among scholars and policymakers. The article investigates and explores t...
European peripheries and suburbs are generally seen by scholars and policy experts as part of a polycentric urban-regional network. This conceptually 'cityist' and methodologically 'urbano-centric' narrative often neglects the dynamics that may emanate from and within the periphery itself instead of cities alone. This paper engages with the history...
Nell’affrontare il legame tra crisi climatica e crisi della sostenibilità dei sistemi di welfare, occorre riformulare il paradigma entro il quale si garantiscono gli obiettivi di decarbonizzazione e di transizione energetica delineati su scala internazionale, ed i principi di giustizia sociale insiti nei sistemi di welfare per garantire servizi e b...
Lungo appena venti chilometri, il torrente Impero rappresenta il principale bacino imbrifero della Provincia di Imperia, nel Ponente ligure. L’analisi presentata in questo capitolo si concentra sulle caratteristiche del tratto finale di questo torrente, per esplorare le complesse “ecologie urbane” fra trasformazioni recenti e contesto urbanizzato....
La transizione energetica, oltre ad essere una questione di natura tecnologica, è un processo di innovazione socio- tecnica: ossia in grado di coinvolgere diverse organizzazioni, interessi e approcci che devono necessariamente con- frontarsi su una scala d’intervento territoriale, dove il coinvolgimento delle comunità locali rappresenta uno degli a...
Le Comunità Energetiche Rinnovabili (CER) sono iniziative ‘socio-tecniche’ di transizione energetica a livel- lo locale finalizzate al coinvolgimento di diversi a1ori e organizzazioni in progetti di comunità dell’energia. In Italia, sono state introdotte nel 2020 grazie al recepimento anticipato delle direttive europee nell’ambito del Clean Energy...
According to the early transposition of the EU directives by the Italian government, this paper presents some of the outcomes of the qualitative-led applied research titled Community Energy Map, aimed at identifying the main operational models and organisational frameworks put in place for the development of renewable energy communities (RECs). In...
Con il recente aumento dei prezzi delle materie prime il tema della povertà energetica ha acquisito sempre più rilevanza nel dibattito pubblico. La Commissione Europea dedica una particolare attenzione a questo tema, come dimostrano le iniziative dell’EU Energy Poverty Observatory, e del successivo EPAH (Energy Poverty Advisory Hub), che nel giugno...
La «teppificazione» del sociale, senza significative differenze tra le classi e con modalità che includono i ricchissimi, viene qui intesa come una forma di sedazione sia delle inquietudini generate dall’instabilità delle posizioni di privilegio ereditate, sia dalla fissità inaggirabile degli status ascritti che collocano i soggetti “in basso”. Tal...
Quali sono le specificità che rendono il rap italiano un percorso autonomo, culturalmente definito e socialmente situato all’interno di un linguaggio che è al tempo stesso statunitense e globale (Mitchell, 2001)? Come si evolve il linguaggio in questo equilibrio tra influenza e specificità? Se la questione è rilevante per ogni tipo di cultura espre...
This paper stems from the need to find a renewed interpretative key of the concept of social innovation in territorial approaches: this was done by observing different forms of research, as well as methodological-disciplinary perspectives. To this end, the analysis is based on a systematic review: on one hand, considering the presence of the keywor...
Il territorio di Pioltello e il quartiere Satellite, a partire dagli anni della sua costruzione ad oggi, sono stati testimoni di notevoli cambiamenti, che intrecciano saldamente la dimensione territoriale e quella socio-demografica. In questa prospettiva, il capitolo ripercorre l’organizzazione dei servizi di welfare e delle politiche sociali che h...
This chapter addresses the crisis of care in the Lombardy region, which has been substantially impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Although it is one of the wealthiest regions in Europe, during the pandemic Lombardy revealed emerging social and spatial peripheries of the contemporary society, identified in suburban contexts that results from non-lin...
In this paper, we examine a crisis in the governance of health and care that characterized the regions of Milan and Toronto, which the COVID-19 pandemic impacted substantially—both in early 2020 when SARS-CoV-2 first hit and later in the fall and winter when the disease entered its second and third waves. We analyze restructuring in health and care...
Il tema della transizione ecologica è entrato di prepotenza nell’agenda delle politiche pubbliche. Il livello di degrado degli ecosistemi e l’avanzare della crisi climatica ci inducono a definire questa agenda come tardiva, ma indubbiamente si è finalmente aperto un campo politico e di policy dentro il quale è possibile fare avanzare delle istanze...
Over the last 20 years, suburbanization has gradually turned into a key topic of analysis, whereas welfare policies have faced a significant public reconfiguration towards the local scale of provision and the development of local welfare systems. Combined in such a way, these two statements tell us little, and they appear to be separate and without...
Quattro webinar per una prospettiva eco-sociale. Studi, ricerche e nuove prospettive per comprendere il carattere multidimensionale della povertà energetica, e le possibili soluzioni per contrastarla.
Accesso libero ai webinar. Copia e incolla il seguente link: urly.it/3gnsr
We are very grateful for Daniel Mullis (2021a, 2021b, 2021c) to have taken up and expanded, but even more for having critiqued our initial paper in this journal on ‘repositioning COVID-19 at the social and spatial periphery of urban society’ (Biglieri et al. 2020). The paper was written early in the pandemic and was published barely 2 months after...
Today, suburbs and urban fringes are pivotal places for understanding contemporary urban transformations because the majority of the world’s urban population live in suburbs. Suburbanization (i.e. the process of combining the non-centric population, economic growth, and spatial expansion) and suburbanisms (suburban ways of living) are key concepts...
Il volume Community Energy Map è il risultato di una ricerca, condotta da RSE e Luiss Business School, sullo stato dell’arte delle comunità dell’energia in Italia.
Nel volume sono presenti diverse chiavi di lettura del fenomeno, a partire dall’analisi del quadro normativo nazionale e regionale italiano. Tramite diversi metodi di ricerca (mappature,...
L'articolo nasce dalla necessità di trovare una rinnovata chiave interpretativa univoca sul concetto di innovazione sociale negli approcci territoriali, osservando le diverse declinazioni di ricerca e prospettive metodologico/disciplinari. A tal fine, l'analisi pro-posta nel contributo è basata su una systematic review: da un lato considerandola pr...
With the proliferation of studies on and local programmes of urban regeneration on the one hand and the stereotypes and stigmatisation of peripheries on the other hand, a more comprehensive understanding of urban peripheries is needed today, when urbanisation is proceeding at a dizzying pace. Focusing on the northern peripheries of Naples, this art...
Drawing upon the debates on ‘suburbanisms’ and ‘arrival space’, this article explores the complexities for welfare governance in multiethnic peripheries.
The paper bridges two themes of the contemporary ‘suburban century’: the intensified global migration flows and the peripheral condition of suburbs worldwide; the work refers to the Municipality o...
Introduction
At first, the virus causing COVID-19 spread from Wuhan in much the same way as its predecessor, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), did in 2003: through the network of global industrial and financial centers that define the structure of the world economy. But the trajectory of COVID-19 turned out to be more complex: the new virus...
To submit your abstract: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/rc21-sensing-the-city/call-for-papers/submit-your-abstract/
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The RC21 Conference theme of “Sensing and Shaping the City; Power, People, Place,” focuses on how citizens experience the fragmentary, unequal and contradictory realities of global urbanity. In keeping with this, we...
This paper aims to describe the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the socioeconomic structure of cities, and discuss the possible responses of a place-based agenda of urban policies built around the concept of "proximity economy". With this objective, the present work provides an interpretative framework for understanding the impact on urban econo...
The discussion about social innovation's agendas entails the understanding of context that increasingly necessitates new methodologies, aware of the limits unfolded by the traditional approaches to tackle wicked problems, scattered on a global scale. Amongst these, the polarization of structural conditions experienced by both the Italian and Europe...
Il presente contributo intende descrivere l’impatto che la pandemia da Covid-19 ha avuto su alcuni aspetti socioeconomici delle città, discutendo su possibili risposte place-based per un rilancio economico basate sul concetto di economia di prossimità. Con questo obiettivo l’articolo fornisce un quadro interpretativo utile a comprendere l’impatto s...
The paper defines an analytical "post-suburban" framework to study the contemporary Italian urbanization. In so doing, the paper undertakes an overview of the Italian urban transformations from the II postwar onwards, by also discussing three pivotal national researches, towards the definition of an analytical perimeter able to unfold novel perspec...
The traditional conception of metropolis has been challenged by the emergence of city-regions and large agglomerations. Most of the different conceptualizations share the key feature of polycentricity. Besides, several theories today enrich the study of urban transformations. Introduced by a brief overview of polycentrism, the paper advances a refl...
The turn of the 21st century has been marked by dramatic changes in the political, social and environmental panorama, which are deeply affecting the way we live today: terrorism, migration and global warming are certainly the most pressing issues, and they are putting at risk our very life on this planet. So far we have come to acknowledge that we...
‘If the nation doesn’t work, cities won’t.’ This statement lies behind The Wealth and Poverty of Cities: Why Nations Matter, an intriguing journey into the failures and successes of many cities – with a predominant focus on North America – aimed at unfolding the factors determining wealth and prosperity across diverse urban agglomerations. Author M...
This article grounds its reflection in the field of residential segregation, providing an investigation on how it is shaped and distributed in Vienna, considered by many 'city rankings' as one of the most 'liveable' not only in Europe, but also worldwide. This paper aims to analyse the patterns of spatial localisation and residential segregation of...
Social innovation is increasingly considered a relevant theme for territorial development policy, in a context of socioeconomic polarizations that interest the large majority of cities and regions of the European and Italian context. Social-innovation based territorial development approaches can be considered as the key to sustain bottom-up dynamic...
At a time when the seek for a broader understanding of contemporary suburbs is finding a reasonable global consideration, a specific attention to the suburbanisms, i.e. suburban ways of living, is still a slightly unexplored issue in the governance agenda. Despite the significance of insightful researches, studies and theories of Italian urbanizati...
COVID-19 proliferates in extended forms of urbanization. Traditionally a metaphor of escape, the global suburb has become the epicentre of zoonotic transmission, infection through travel, and community spread. Against this background, we point out that where the virus is, you find the peripheral, in the city and in society. In this reflection, we s...
Urban regeneration is a process involving not only partnerships among different stakeholders but also a plethora of disciplines. In the contemporary local welfare framework, pathways of integration among different policy fields have been promoted and encouraged to address societal changes, particularly in more deprived urban areas. This paper refle...
Double book review of the manuscripts "Constructing Metropolitan Space" edited by Gualini, Gross and Ye (Routledge), and "Steering the Metropolis", a report by IDB (Inter-American Development Bank), UN-Habitat and CAF (Latin America Bank). The two manuscripts address the key role played by metropolitan areas (or regions), whether they are core poin...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2020/03/27/book-review-how-to-run-a-city-like-amazon-and-other-fables-edited-by-mark-graham-rob-kitchin-shannon-mattern-and-joe-shaw/
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In How to Run a City like Amazon and Other Fables-available to download here-editors Mark Graham et al offer 38 stories written by academics that utilise speculative fiction...
Driving forces of contemporary urbanization processes are too complex to be captured through one mode of analysis, and a variety of interwoven factors must be considered to understand the multifaceted features of different emerging urban spaces, locally and globally. This is the problem statement that steers Emerging Urban Spaces: A Planetary Persp...
In a world of planetary urbanization, processes of spatial development are under endless changes and threatened by the constant strengthening of neoliberal policy-making at all spatial scales. At the same time, the existence of worldwide urban growth shows us that the urban morphology is no longer readable through core/periphery dualisms which stre...
Over the last two decades, suburban studies have emerged from a call for a new conceptual order to go beyond the traditional dichotomies of the urban realm, namely, the centre‐periphery division. Such an approach distinguishes the city and suburbs as two separate entities, which hampers a better understanding of urbanization overall. Previously, st...
Quale governance si sta configurando nell’eterogeneo alveo delle aree suburbane? Come occorre agire sulle trasformazioni sociali delle popolazioni suburbane? Per intercettare le questioni di governance, il presente contributo individua il campo di studi della suburban governance, che offre un frame per leggere le questioni di carattere pubblico di...
Yannis Tzaninis employs the Apollonian-Dionysian duality on social space: ‘Apollonian’ attempts to socially engineer space through planning vs ‘Dionysian’ every-day, social action, unpredictable and ‘messy’. He explores these tensions through a unique case of modernist sub/urbanism: Almere, a 1970s Dutch New Town, highly planned as a “decentralized...
L’incontro restituisce il «Monitoraggio delle forme periferiche dell’area metropolitana di Roma» promosso dalla DGAAP del MiBAC e sviluppato da GU | Generazione Urbana.
Tale iniziativa si inseriva in un programma di ricerca più ampio che intendeva offrire informazioni sulle periferie metropolitane allo scopo di promuoverne lo sviluppo e la riqualif...
Esiste un’Italia «suburbana»?
Come possiamo interpretare le recenti trasformazioni morfologiche e socio-spaziali che prendono forma nelle nuove periferie metropolitane? Quali sono le sfide future per la governance del welfare in questi territori? Il seminario affronta le tensioni concettuali che emergono nell’osservazione delle più recenti trasform...
Pensavamo a un dialogo che nelle forme di un bilancio mettesse a punto questioni care ai due autori. Non ci siamo riusciti. Il bilancio è diventato pista di ulteriori ricerche: attraversare una storia di lavoro sociale con chiavi di lettura ricavate dalla lezione di Ota de Leonardis ci ha condotti a una revisione complessa di quella storia. Il dial...
Since several decades public participation and participatory urban planning are considered important issues to be taken into account in public decision-making. At the same time, research methods have developed new tools aimed to support and stimulate citizens’ participation in planning activity. Within this wide repertoire, the technological develo...
L’elaborato intende analizzare il tema della rigenerazione urbana con un approccio che rivolge lo sguardo ai bisogni dei cittadini, seguendo percorsi di capability-building (Sen, 1992) degli abitanti, secondo una governance orientata alla territorializzazione delle politiche sociali. Per individuare sinergie e intrecci tra la rigenerazione e l’appr...
Urban regeneration processes can be defined not only by urban design and planning, but also considering an approach more focused on the social issues. In a deprived urban area due to marginality, vulnerability, poverty and social exclusion is useful to cope with its urban regeneration looking at the local welfare system that can be developed in ord...
A cost-benefit analysis of the most recent extension of Genoa subway
This is my Master thesis, to achieve my Master's degree in Sociology. For this thesis, I developed two case studies with the help of a network built by my supervisor, professor Ota de Leonardis.
I keep it on my ResearchGate because it represents the effort of the case-study activities that strongly influenced my further decisions to focus on resear...
Ricerca condotta nei mesi di maggio-giugno 2014 che ha preso in studio l'offerta alimentare e i consumi nell'ambito delle maggiori stazioni ferroviarie di Milano, in occasione EXPO 2015. Queste ultime sono punti intermodali strategici, oggetto di importanti programmi di riqualificazione che le hanno rese luoghi di consumo oltre che di mobilità. Ma...
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Question (1)
Disseminating your PhD dissertation.
I am working on publishing activity from my PhD thesis, for which I have carried out three different qualitative investigations.
I am extrapolating case studies and theoretical reflections to be employed in journal articles (of which two are already published, and one another is forthcoming). I am also thinking about book(s), but I don't consider my PhD thesis appropriate for a publication, just as it is. Nonetheless, I would like to share the manuscript with the academic community, as it is also enriched by a high-level graphic artwork designed by a fellow.
Do you consider Creative Common License a valuable way to share my PhD thesis without limiting its dissemination through articles and books?
Thanks for joining this thread.
