publications

Publications (* peer reviewed) 

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*Tornieri, S., Ma, J., & RIZZO, A. (2024). Which urban and landscape qualities make Arctic villages attractive? The Torne River villages in Sweden. European Planning Studies, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2024.2349753 

Tornieri, S., & Rizzo, A. (2024). The Arctic Hypothesis : Architecture in Transition for the Land of Tomorrow. LTU. ISBN: 978-91-8048-560-9

 

*Savvides, A., Vassiliades, C., Lau, K., & RIZZO, A. (2024). Examining user thermal comfort in 

spaces between buildings: Exploring parametric solutions for BIPVs for Luleå, Sweden, and 

Limassol, Cyprus. Energy Reports, 11, 5235-5251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2024.04.066 

*Çidik, M. S., Schiller, G., Zhang, N.,RIZZO, A., Tambovceva, T., Bajare, D., & Hendawy, M. (2024). How Does ‘Locality’Matter in Enabling a Circular Built Environment?: A Focus on Space, Knowledge, and Cities. In Bragança, L., Cvetkovska, M., Askar, R., & Ungureanu, V. (EDS.). Creating a Roadmap Towards Circularity in the Built Environment. Creating a Roadmap Towards Circularity in the Built Environment (pp. 251-261). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45980-1_21

 

*Uluç Keçik, A., Çiftçi, C., Eren, Ş. G., Tepecik Diş, A., & RIZZO, A. (2023). Determination and Evaluation of Landslide-Prone Regions of Isparta (Turkey): An Urban Planning View. Sustainability, 15(19), 14329. https://doi.org/10.3390/su151914329

 

*Vassiliades, C., Lau, K., Moiseos, R., Buonomano, A., Savvides, A., & RIZZO, A. (2023). A climate sensitive design approach to BIPV: Investigating the nexus between solar energy and thermal comfort in cities in Sweden and Cyprus. Building and Environment, 243, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2023.110681.

 

*RIZZO, A., Sjöholm, J., & Luciani, A. (2023). Smart (en) ing the Arctic city? The cases of Kiruna and Malmberget in Sweden. European Planning Studies, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2023.2217850

 

*RIZZO, A., & Petruccioli, A. (2023). Khalifa versus Prometheus: Green ethics and the struggle for contemporary sustainable urbanism. Digest of Middle East Studies, 1– 13. DOI: 10.1111/dome.12291

*Sagrelius, P., Lundy, L., Blecken, G.-T., RIZZO, A., & Viklander, M. (2022). Blue-Green Infrastructure for All Seasons: The Need for Multicolored Thinking. Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment, 8(4). DOI: 10.1061/JSWBAY.0000997

*RIZZO, A., Habibipour, A., & Ståhlbröst, A. (2021). Transformative thinking and urban living labs in planning practice: a critical review and ongoing case studies in Europe. European Planning Studies, 29(10), 1739-1757. DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2021.1911955

RIZZO, A. (2021). Predatory Urbanism: The Metabolism of Megaprojects in Asia (with Mandal, A.). Edward Elgar. DOI: 10.4337/9781800881075

RIZZO, A. (2021). Rethinking Resilience: Towards Resourceful Communities. In Melis, A., Medas, B., Pievani, T. (eds.). Resilient Communities. Catalogue Italian Pavilion, Biennale di Architettura di Venezia, 96-101. ISBN: 978-8894830682

RIZZO, A. (2021). Transnational Urban Space in the Global South: Cases from Qatar and Malaysia. In Azzali, S., Mazzetto, S., Petruccioli, A. (Editors). Urban Challenges in the Globalizing Middle-East: Social Value of Public Spaces. Springer, 23-36. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-69795-2_3.

RIZZO, A., (2020). The Absolutist City Developer: Predatory Megaprojects And The State-Planning Nexus In Qatar. In Jonas, A., Koch, N., Lizotte, C., Luukkonen, J., Moisio, S. (eds.). The Changing Geographies of the State. Edward Elgar, 457–466. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788978057.00056.

RIZZO, A., Ekelund, B., Bergström, J., Ek, K. (2020). Participatory Design as a Tool to Create Resourceful Communities in Sweden. In C. Smaniotto Costa, M. Mačiulienė, M. Menezes, B. Goličnik Marušić (Eds.), Co-Creation of Public Open Places. Practice - Reflection - Learning, Lusófona University Press, Lisbon, 95-107. https://doi.org/10.24140/2020-sct-vol.4-1.6.

*Morata, B., Cavalieri, C., RIZZO, A., Luciani, A. (2020). Territories of Extraction. Mapping Palimpsests of Appropriation. Urban Planning, 5(2), 132–151. https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v5i2.2901.

*Katsou, E. ….., RIZZO, A. (2020). Transformation tools enabling the implementation of nature-based solutions for creating a resourceful circular city. Blue-Green Systems, 2(1), 186-211. https://doi.org/10.2166/bgs.2020.929.

*RIZZO, A., Sordi, J. (2020). Resources and Urbanization in the Global Periphery: perspectives from urban and landscape studies. Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102647.

RIZZO, A. (2019). The New Arab Urban (book review). Planning Theory 18(4), 492-495. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473095219881054.

*Chapman, D.; Nilsson, K. L.; RIZZO, A.; Larsson, A. (2019). "Winter City Urbanism: Enabling All Year Connectivity for Soft Mobility." Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 16,10: 1820. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16101820.

*RIZZO, A. (2019). The limits of green resilience in urban planning: two cases from the global South. Urban Studies (special issue). https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098018812009 

*Lidelöw, S., Örn, T., Luciani, A., & RIZZO, A. (2019). Energy-efficiency measures for heritage buildings: A literature review. Sustainable Cities and Society, 45, 231-242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2018.09.029.

*RIZZO, A. (2019). Predatory cities: Unravelling the consequences of resource-predatory projects in the global South. Urban geography, 40(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2018.1505156 

*Chapman, D., Nilsson, K., RIZZO, A., & Larsson, A. (2018). Updating winter : the importance of climate-sensitive urban design for winter settlements. Arctic Yearbook. ISSN: 2298-2418.

*RIZZO, A. (2018). Why Knowledge Megaprojects Will Fail to Transform Gulf Countries in Post-Carbon Economies: The Case of Qatar. In Armondi, S. & Di Vita, S. (eds.). New Urban Geographies of the Creative and Knowledge Economies : Foregrounding Innovative Productions, Workplaces and Public Policies in Contemporary Cities. Routledge. ISBN: 978-0815358824 (re-printed journal article)

RIZZO, A., Sandberg, M., Johansson, T., & Wenngren, J. (2018). Food on the Roof : Developing an IT platform to visualize and identify suitable locations for roof farming in cold climates. LTU Research Report. ISBN: 978-91-7790-058-0.

*Chapman, D., Nilsson, K., Larsson, A., & RIZZO, A. (2017). Climatic barriers to soft-mobility in winter : Lulea, Sweden as case study. Sustainable Cities and Society, 35, 574-580. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2017.09.003.

*RIZZO, A. (2017). Why Knowledge Megaprojects Will Fail to Transform Gulf Countries in Post-Carbon Economies: The Case of Qatar. Journal of Urban Technology, 24: 3, 85-98. https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2017.1311569.

*RIZZO, A. (2017). Managing the energy transition in a tourism-driven economy: The case of Malta. Sustainable Cities and Society, 33, 126-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2016.12.005.

*RIZZO, A. & Galanakis, M. (2017). Problematizing Transdisciplinary Urbanism Research: A Reply to “Seeking Northlake”. Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning, 64, 98-99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2016.11.001.

*RIZZO, A. (2017). Sustainable urban development and green megaprojects in the Arab states of the Gulf Region: limitations, covert aims, and unintended outcomes in Doha, Qatar. International Planning Studies, 22(2), 85-98. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563475.2016.1182896.

RIZZO, A. (2017). From petro-urbanism to knowledge megaprojects in the Persian Gulf: Qatar Foundation’s Education City. In Datta, A. & Shaban, A. (eds) Mega-Urbanization in the Global South: Fast Cities and New Urban Utopias of the Postcolonial State. Routledge, 101-122. ISBN: 978-0-415-74551-2.

RIZZO, A. (2016). Expanding the Green/Blue Infrastructure Concept: Iskandar Malaysia as a Case of Study. In Cities for Us: engaging communities and citizens for sustainable development (UPE 12 Symposium). Lisbon: IGOT, University of Lisboa. ISBN: 978-972-636-256-2.

RIZZO, A. (2016). Problematizing green/blue infrastructures. In Moccia, F. & Sepe, M. (eds). Networks and infrastructures of contemporary territories. INU Edizioni. Naples. ISBN: 978-88-7603-147-2.

*Ebrahimabadi, S., Johansson, C., RIZZO, A., & Nilsson, K. (2016). Microclimate assessment method for urban design: a case study in subarctic climate. Urban Design International. https://doi.org/10.1057/udi.2015.26 

*RIZZO, A. (2016). Declining, transition and slow rural territories in southern Italy Characterizing the intra-rural divides. European Planning Studies, 24(2), 231-253. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2015.1079588.

*RIZZO, A. & Galanakis, M. (2015). Transdisciplinary Urbanism: Three experiences from Europe and Canada. Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning 47, 35–44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2015.01.001.

RIZZO, A. (2015). Stadsförnyelse kan skapa ettbättre Luleå.NSD. 17 August, 18.

RIZZO, A. (2015). Att flytta till Lövskatan är ingen hållbar lösning. NSD. 19 June, 18

RIZZO, A. (2015) Transit Space in the Straits Megacity Region. MONU. 21, 90-95. ISSN: 1860-3211.

*RIZZO, A. (2014). Rapid Urban Development and National Master Planning in the Arab Gulf Region. Qatar as case study. Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning 39, 50–57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2014.02.005.

*RIZZO, A. & Galanakis, M. (2014). Transurbanism. Towards A New Transdisciplinary Approach in Urban Planning. In IOSSIFOVA, D. (ed.) Architecture and Planning: Reclaiming the Possibility of Making. UK: Third European Urban Summer School. SoftGrid Ltd., 144-157. ISBN: 978-0-9927823-1-3.

*RIZZO, A., & Khan, S. (2013). Johor Bahru's Response to Transnational and National Influences in the Emerging Straits Mega-City Region. Habitat International, 40, 154-162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2013.03.003.

*RIZZO, A. (2013). Metro Doha. Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning 31, 533–543. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2011.11.011.

*RIZZO, A. & Glasson, J. (2012). Iskandar Malaysia. Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning 29 (6), 417–427. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2011.03.003.

RIZZO, A. (2012) Reconstructing Meta-Doha. MONU. 16, 118-121. ISSN: 1860-3211.

RIZZO, A. (2012) Delirious Doha. Domus. Retrieved from: https://www.domusweb.it/en/opinion/2012/08/15/delirious-doha.amp.html.

*RIZZO, A. & Glasson, J. (2011). Conceiving transit space in Singapore/Johor: a research agenda for the Strait Transnational Urban Region (STUR). International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development. 3 (2), 156-167. https://doi.org/10.1080/19463138.2011.590722.

RIZZO, A. (2010). Behind metropolis (Dietro la metropoli: capire per pianificare l’entroterra siciliano). Urbanistica – INU (National Institute for Urban Planning). 142, 108-114. ISSN: 0042-1022.

RIZZO, A. (2010). An intelligent megastructure. Compasses. 11, 108-111. ISBN: 978–9948–15–424–2.

RIZZO, A. (2010). Contemporary Landscape. Compasses. 9, 55-60. ISBN: 978–9948–15–424–2.

RIZZO, A. (2010). Learning the Finnish lifestyle from an old suburb of Helsinki. Compasses. 8, 60-63. ISBN: 978–9948–15–424–2.

RIZZO, A. (2009). Border Cities in the Baltic Sea (Border Cities nel mar Baltico). Urbanistica - INU (National Institute for Urban Planning). 140, 36-41. ISSN: 0042-1022.

RIZZO, A. (2009). The Multiple City. Tallinn as playground to test new paradigms in urban studies. In Ilmavirta, T. (Ed.), Regenerating Urban Core. Publication of the YTK/IFHP Urban Planning and Design Summer School. Espoo, Finland: C-series of CURS, Helsinki University of Technology, 44-57. ISBN: 978-951-22-9979-9.

RIZZO, A. (2009). ‘P2PFOUND CITIES’. Project Proposal for the Reconstruction and the Preservation of Abruzzo. P2P Foundation. Retrieved from: http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/.

RIZZO, A. (2008). Making New Helsinki (Making New Helsinki. Una miniregione metropolitana alla perifeia d’Europa). Urbanistica - INU (National Institute for Urban Planning), 135, 105-111. ISSN: 0042-1022.

RIZZO, A., Bajraktari, E., Jonsson, T., Krishnamurthy, S., Micheller, R., and Santacruz, R. (2008) Helsinki-Tallinn Region. Tracing networks in an archipelago of islands. Bauhaus Dessau Foundation Kolleg IX, (re-printed in 2014) Lulu Publishers. ISBN: 9781304711175.

RIZZO, A. (2008). Intimate “world”. Compasses. 4, 74-78. ISBN: 978–9948–15–424–2.

RIZZO, A. (2008). Local Planning Strategies in the Frame Work of European Spatial Policy. Maja. 4, 68-69. ISSN: 1023-0742.

RIZZO, A., (2008) Dietro la metropoli. Appunti per un nuovo entroterra Siciliano. Ph.D. Thesis. Lulu publisher. ISBN: 978-1-4709-5228-0 [Italian].

RIZZO, A., Zancan, R. (2007) Another suburban morning. In Ilardi M. - Ed. - (2007) Una Strana Rivista, Meltemi Editore, Bologna, 32-37. ISBN 978-88-8353-602-1 [Italian].

RIZZO, A., Zancan, R. (2007) Doppelgänger under the volcano: Le speranze di un complesso multifunzionale nel Meridione. In Amendola G., Mello P., Ricci M. - Eds. - (2007) La civiltà dei superluoghi: notizie dalla metropoli quotidiana, Damiani Editore, Bologna, 100-105. ISBN: 978-88-6208-008-8 [Italian].

RIZZO, A., (2007) Risalendo le lunghe valli dell'entroterra siciliano. Bollettino d'Ateneo, Universita' degli Studi di Catania. Accessed at: http://www.bda.unict.it/Pagina/It/La_Rivista/0/2007/10/31/1152_.aspx [Italian].

*La Greca, P., Martinico, F., Occhipinti, S., RIZZO, A. (2006). The long and winding road. Peripheries in a Medium Sized City of Southern Italy. In LA GRECA P. & MEREY, Z. (Eds.) Cities Between Integration and Disintegration, Opportunities and Challenges. ISOCARP Review 02, 196-215. ISBN: 90-755-24-47-1.

*La Greca, P., Martinico, F., RIZZO, A. (2006). La pianificazione d’area vasta in Sicilia. Il caso del Piano Territoriale Provinciale di Siracusa. AV 12-13, 43-54. ISSN: 1825-7526 [Italian].

RIZZO, A. & Zancan, R. (2006). Another suburban morning: Spunti per lo studio di una “nano” city region mediterranea. Gomorra. 11, 13-25. ISBN: 978-88-8353-514-7 [Italian].

RIZZO, A., (2004) Le architetture della metropoli. Analisi e strategie per il governo dei sistemi metropolitani. M.Sc. Thesis. Lulu publisher. ISBN: 978-1-4709-7475-6 [Italian].