Leonardo Ramondetti is a visiting postdoctoral researcher at LATTS, where he is conducting in-depth research on urbanization processes and new spatialities generated by infrastructure projects in Southern Europe.
He is a postdoctoral researcher in urban planning and landscape architecture at the Interuniversity Department of Territorial Studies and Planning (DIST) at the Polytechnic University of Turin. He teaches a course in urban and regional planning at the School of Architecture at the University of Bologna. His research and teaching interests revolve around urban design theory and urban planning culture, with a particular focus on infrastructural transformations.
During his PhD, his research focused on new urbanization and infrastructure processes in the Chinese context. He participated in the research project "CeNTO – Chinese New Cities" research project, in which he published his monograph The Enriched Field: Urbanizing the Central Plains of China (Birkhäuser, 2022). This study, along with other projects, was developed as part of the China Room research group at the Polytechnic University of Turin, where he has been coordinating research activities for the past year.
He is currently participating in the research project "Rescaling the Belt and Road Initiative: urbanization processes, innovation patterns and global investments." In this context, he is studying how European and Chinese investments are transforming logistics and infrastructure around the Adriatic Sea, particularly in the cities of Trieste, Piraeus, and Ravenna. He is particularly interested in how new infrastructure is changing production sites and how they interact with the environment.