Leonardo Ramondetti

Leonardo Ramondetti, architect, Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Development from Politecnico di Torino and Università di Torino, Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST). His field of research is contemporary urban design theories and planning cultures, with particular focus on the processes of urbanisation and infrastructurisation in different global contexts. He is part of the China Room research group. Between 2015 and 2019 he participated in the research ‘Chinese New Towns’, carried out by Politecnico di Torino, Tsinghua University of Beijing, EPFL, which led to the publication of The City after Chinese New Towns (Birkhäuser, 2019). As a postdoctoral scholar, he is currently working at the research project of national relevance (PRIN) ‘Rescaling the Belt and Road Initiative’ (2020-2023) carried out by Politecnico di Torino and Università di Macerata. He is the author of the book The Enriched Field: Urbanising the Central Plains of China (Birkhäuser, 2022).