Geography, planning and design

Buitelaar, E., Weterings, A., & Ponds, R. (2017). Cities, economic inequality and justice: Reflections and alternative perspectives. Routledge.

Buitelaar, E., Moroni, S., & De Franco, A. (2021). Building obsolescence in the evolving city. Reframing property vacancy and abandonment in the light of urban dynamics and complexity. Cities, 108, 102964.

Cotella, G. (2020). How Europe hits home? The impact of European Union policies on territorial governance and spatial planning. Géocarrefour, 94(94/3).

De Franco, A. (2022). Abandonment as a social fact: the problem of unused and unmaintained private buildings in a neo-institutional perspective. Cham: Springer.

De Franco, A., & Moroni, S. (2023). The city as an information system: Urban agency, experiential inputs and planning measures. Cities, 134, 104183.

De Franco, A., & Pacchi, C. (2024). The space of rules and rules of space: reflecting on local ordinances during the Covid-19 pandemic. City, Territory and Architecture, 11(1), 16.

Banon, F., & Jehling, M. (2020). Looking for innovation–Trajectories of land transaction and readjustment in West Africa. Cities, 106, 102880.

Moroni, S., De Franco, A., & Bellè, B. M. (2020). Unused private and public buildings: Re-discussing merely empty and truly abandoned situations, with particular reference to the case of Italy and the city of Milan. Journal of Urban Affairs, 42(8), 1299-1320.

Savini, F. (2016). Self‐organization and urban development: Disaggregating the city‐region, deconstructing urbanity in Amsterdam. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 40(6), 1152-1169.

Thaler, T., Doorn, N., & Hartmann, T. (2020). Justice of compensation for spatial flood risk management–comparing the flexible Austrian and the structured Dutch approach. DIE ERDE–Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin, 151(2-3), 104-115.

Alterman, R., & Pellach, C. (Eds.). (2020). Regulating coastal zones: International perspectives on land management instruments. Routledge.

Alterman, R., & Calor, I. (2020). Between informal and illegal in the Global North: Planning law, enforcement, and justifiable noncompliance. In U. Grashoff (Ed.) Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing.around the Globe (pp. 150-185). University College London (UCL) Press

Chiodelli, F., Coppola, A., Belotti, E., Berruti, G., Marinaro, I. C., Curci, F., & Zanfi, F. (2021). The production of informal space: A critical atlas of housing informalities in Italy between public institutions and political strategies. Progress in Planning, 149, 100495.

Chiodelli, F., & Moroni, S. (2014). The complex nexus between informality and the law: Reconsidering unauthorised settlements in light of the concept of nomotropism. Geoforum, 51, 161-168.

Cotella, G., & Rivolin, U. J. (Eds.). (2025). Handbook of Territorial Governance. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Berisha, E., Cotella, G., Janin Rivolin, U., & Solly, A. (2021). Spatial governance and planning systems in the public control of spatial development: a European typology. European planning studies, 29(1), 181-200.

Dembski, S., & Salet, W. (2010). The transformative potential of institutions: How symbolic markers can institute new social meaning in changing cities. Environment and planning A, 42(3), 611-625.

Janin Rivolin, U. (2025). Notes on the comparison of territorial governance systems. In A Gentleman Planner. Scritti in memoria di Luigi Mazza (pp. 129-142). Franco Angeli.

Janin Rivolin, U. (2017). Global crisis and the systems of spatial governance and planning: a European comparison. European Planning Studies, 25(6), 994-1012.

Janin Rivolin, U. (2012). Planning systems as institutional technologies: a proposed conceptualization and the implications for comparison. Planning Practice and Research, 27(1), 63-85.

Lennon, M., & Kamjou, E. (2025). Epistemic injustice in planning: a framework for identifying degrees of harm. Local Environment, 30(1), 98-115.

Mäntysalo, R., Jarenko, K., Nilsson, K. L., & Saglie, I. L. (2015). Legitimacy of informal strategic urban planning—Observations from Finland, Sweden and Norway. European Planning Studies, 23(2), 349-366.

Savini, F. (2016). Don’t blame public law: The legal articulation of certainty in Amsterdam land-use planning. Town Planning Review, 87(4), 459-479.

Shahab, S., & Viallon, F. X. (2021). Swiss land improvement syndicates:‘Impure’Coasian solutions?. Planning Theory, 20(1), 44-62.

Alterman, R. (2017). Linking Planning Theory, Implementation Analysis and Planning Law: Planners’ Beacon, Compass and Scale. Encounters in Planning Thought, 16.

Basta, C. (2017). On Marx’s human significance, Harvey’s right to the city, and Nussbaum’s capability approach. Planning Theory, 16(4), 345-363.

Basta, C. (2016). From justice in planning toward planning for justice: A capability approach. Planning Theory, 15(2), 190-212.

Buitelaar, E. (2020). If neoliberalism is everything, maybe it is nothing. Planning Theory, 19(4), 485-488.

Chettiparamb, A. (2019). Responding to a complex world: Explorations in spatial planning. Planning theory, 18(4), 429-447.

Chettiparamb, A. (2018). Meta-operations, autopoiesis and neo-systems thinking: What significance for spatial planners?. Planning Theory, 17(4), 628-643.

Chettiparamb, A. (2016). Articulating ‘public interest’through complexity theory. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 34(7), 1284-1305.

Blanc, F., Cabrera, J. E., Cotella, G., García, A., & Sandoval, J. C. (2022). Does planning keep its promises? Latin American spatial governance and planning as an ex-post regularisation activity. Planning Practice & Research, 37(6), 699-720.

Dembski, S. (2020). ‘Organic’approaches to planning as densification strategy? The challenge of legal contextualisation in Buiksloterham, Amsterdam. Town Planning Review, 91(3), 283-303.

O’Brien, P., Lord, A., & Dembski, S. (2020). How do planners manage risk in alternative land development models? An institutional analysis of land development in the Netherlands. Land Use Policy, 91, 104409.

Güell, J. M. F. (2019). Planificación estratégica de ciudades. Reverté.

Hartmann, T. (2012). Wicked problems and clumsy solutions: Planning as expectation management. Planning theory, 11(3), 242-256.

Lennon, M., & Tubridy, F. (2023). ‘Time’as a focus for planning research: exploring temporalities of coastal change. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 25(3), 301-313.

Puustinen, S., Mäntysalo, R., & Jarenko, K. (2017). The varying interpretations of public interest: Making sense of Finnish urban planners’ conceptions. Current Urban Studies, 5(1), 82-96.

Puustinen, S., Mäntysalo, R., Hytönen, J., & Jarenko, K. (2017). The “deliberative bureaucrat”: Deliberative democracy and institutional trust in the jurisdiction of the Finnish planner. Planning Theory & Practice, 18(1), 71-88.

Mattila, H. (2020). Habermas revisited: Resurrecting the contested roots of communicative planning theory. Progress in planning, 141, 100431.

Mattila, H. (2016). Can collaborative planning go beyond locally focused notions of the “public interest”? The potential of Habermas’ concept of “generalizable interest” in pluralist and trans-scalar planning discourses. Planning Theory, 15(4), 344-365.

Moroni, S. (2023). What can urban policies and planning really learn from John Rawls? A multi-strata view of institutional action and a canvas conception of the just city. Planning Theory, 22(4), 404-425.

Moroni, S., & Cozzolino, S. (2019). Action and the city. Emergence, complexity, planning. Cities, 90(2019), 42-51.

Moroni, S., & Cozzolino, S. (2020). Conditions of actions in complex social–spatial systems. In Handbook on planning and complexity (pp. 186-202). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Moroni, S., & Lorini, G. (2017). Graphic rules in planning: A critical exploration of normative drawings starting from zoning maps and form-based codes. Planning Theory, 16(3), 318-338.

de Roo, G., & Perrone, C. (2020). A multi-level rationality model for planning behaviour. In Handbook on planning and complexity (pp. 35-65). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Perrone, C. (2016). Grounds for future gendered urban agendas: policy patterns and practice implications. Town Planning Review, 87(5), 589-606.

Perrone, C. (2019). ‘Downtown Is for People’: The street-level approach in Jane Jacobs’ legacy and its resonance in the planning debate within the complexity theory of cities. Cities, 91, 10-16.

Rauws, W. (2017). Embracing uncertainty without abandoning planning: Exploring an adaptive planning approach for guiding urban transformations. DisP-The Planning Review, 53(1), 32-45.

Rauws, W., & De Roo, G. (2016). Adaptive planning: Generating conditions for urban adaptability. Lessons from Dutch organic development strategies. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 43(6), 1052-1074.

Savini, F. (2019). Responsibility, polity, value: The (un) changing norms of planning practices. Planning Theory, 18(1), 58-81.

Savini, F., Majoor, S., & Salet, W. (2015). Dilemmas of planning: Intervention, regulation, and investment. Planning Theory, 14(3), 296-315.

Shahab, S., Clinch, J. P., & O’Neill, E. (2018). Accounting for transaction costs in planning policy evaluation. Land Use Policy, 70, 263-272.

Shahab, S., Clinch, J. P., & O’Neill, E. (2019). Impact-based planning evaluation: Advancing normative criteria for policy analysis. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 46(3), 534-550.

Stead, D. (2021). Conceptualizing the policy tools of spatial planning. Journal of planning literature, 36(3), 297-311.

Purkarthofer, E., & Stead, D. (2023). Agency and structure in urban and regional planning: An illustrative overview and future research agenda. Journal of Planning Literature, 38(4), 571-587.

Davoudi, S., Galland, D., & Stead, D. (2020). Reinventing planning and planners: Ideological decontestations and rhetorical appeals. Planning Theory, 19(1), 17-37.

Slaev, A. D. (2020). Complex private-common property rights in institutional and planning theories. Planning Theory, 19(2), 193-213.

Slaev, A. D. (2016). Property rights and methods of nomocratic planning. Planning Theory, 15(3), 274-293.

Slaev, A. D. (2016). Types of planning and property rights. Planning Theory, 15(1), 23-41.

Thaler, T., Zischg, A., Keiler, M., & Fuchs, S. (2018). Allocation of risk and benefits—distributional justices in mountain hazard management. Regional environmental change, 18(2), 353-365.

Patterson, J. J., Thaler, T., Hoffmann, M., Hughes, S., Oels, A., Chu, E., … & Jordan, A. (2018). Political feasibility of 1.5 C societal transformations: the role of social justice. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 31, 1-9.

Arvanitidis, P., & Nasioka, F. (2018). From commons dilemmas to social solutions: A common pool resource experiment in Greece. In Institutionalist Perspectives on Development: A Multidisciplinary Approach (pp. 125-142). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Arvanitidis, P. A., & Papagiannitsis, G. (2020). Urban open spaces as a commons: The credibility thesis and common property in a self-governed park of Athens, Greece. Cities, 97, 102480.

Melone, M. R. S., & Borgo, S. (2020). Rethinking rules and social practices. The design of urban spaces in the post-Covid-19 lockdown. TeMA-Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 333-341.

Carter, I., & Moroni, S. (2022). Adaptive and anti-adaptive neighbourhoods: Investigating the relationship between individual choice and systemic adaptability. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 49(2), 722-736.

Cozzolino, S. (2020). The (anti) adaptive neighbourhoods. Embracing complexity and distribution of design control in the ordinary built environment. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 47(2), 203-219.

Cozzolino, S., & Moroni, S. (2024). Action, property and beauty: planning with and for emergent urban complexity. Routledge.

Fernández Güell, J. M. (2022). Complejidad e incertidumbre en la ciudad actual: Hacia un nuevo modelo conceptual. Edición: Jorge Sainz. Título de la serie: Estudios Universitarios de Arquitectura, (33).

Fernández-Güell, J. M., Collado-Lara, M., Guzmán-Arana, S., & Fernández-Anez, V. (2016). Incorporating a systemic and foresight approach into smart city initiatives: The case of Spanish cities. Journal of urban technology, 23(3), 43-67.

Israel, A., & Jehling, M. (2019). How modern are renewables? The misrecognition of traditional solar thermal energy in Peru’s energy transition. Energy Policy, 133, 110905.

Hartmann, T., & Jehling, M. (2019). From diversity to justice–Unraveling pluralistic rationalities in urban design. Cities, 91, 58-63.

Lennon, M. (2017). Moral-material ontologies of nature conservation: exploring the discord between ecological restoration and novel ecosystems. Environmental Values, 26(1), 5-29.

Mattila, H. (2002). Aesthetic justice and urban planning: Who ought to have the right to design cities?. GeoJournal, 58(2), 131-138.

Moroni, S., & Lorini, G. (2021). Multiple functions of drawings. Journal of Urban Design, 26(3), 374-394.