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After 3 years, the NEIGHBOURCHANGE Project has come to an end. The closing conference ‘Making Room. Social Innovation in Urban Planning’ is aimed at discussing the main research findings with…

A new publication is now available. A book chapter ‘Can social innovation transform local governments? The experience of Naples’ in the Book ‘Social movements and public policies in Southern European…

The new chapter ‘Community-based responses to exclusionary processes of neighbourhood change in Parkdale, Toronto’ is now Open Access. Published in the book edited by Susan Moore, Nicola Livingstone, Susannah Bunce…

In the framework of the Community Planning Course by Elena Ostanel, a set of open seminars are organized. These seminars are streamed on line or accessible on Teams Platform to…

The NEIGBOURCHANGE Project has been awareded the Scholarship Martini of ALDA- The European Association of Local Democracy Agencies. Despite a general increase in well-being, social inequalities have increased significantly in…

Contemporary cities and territories face significant challenges – natural disasters due to climate change impacts, ecological crises, growing socio-economic unrest, global migration, political rifts including a rise of right wing…

The aim of this work is to explore applications of the intercultural and multicultural paradigms to urban fabrics. My intention is to contribute to the ongoing academic debate, taking into…

As a result of the Conference Cities and Self-organization (Rome, 11-13 December 2018) a new publication has been released. With the colleague Giovanni Attili, I’ve worked at the introduction of the…

The City of Toronto is experiencing strong dynamics of socio-spatial polarization. Toronto sees the level of income segregation rise at a more rapid rate than elsewhere in Canada (Walks et…