Gemma Belli

Job Title: Associate Professor (since November 2019) – Department of Architecture-DiARC. Academic discipline: ICAR/18 – History of Architecture Institutional affiliation: University of Naples Federico II

PhD in History of “Architecture and Urban Development” at the University of Chieti-Pescara (2002). Post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Salerno (2003-05). Post-doctoral research fellowship in “Landscape and Urban History” at the University of Naples Suor Orsola Benincasa (2006-10). Post-doctoral research fellowship in “Architectural and Urban History” at the University of Naples Federico II (2011). Researcher at the University of Naples Federico II (2011-19).

She taught at the University of Naples Suor Orsola Benincasa (1999-02) and the Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria (2005-06). Actually, she teaches “History of the City and Landscape” and “History of Settlement Forms” at the DiARC.

Among her main research interests are themes of urban history specifically related to the development of the city during the Nineteenth and Twentieth century. She is member of the Scientific committee of the journal Storia dell’Urbanistica and of the book series “Contemporanea. Architettura città storia”, Lettera22, and “UrbsHistoriaeImago”, fedOApress.

Publications

Belli, G., and F. Mangone. Posillipo, Fuorigrotta e Bagnoli. Progetti urbanistici per la Napoli del Mito, 1860-1935. Napoli: Grimaldi & C. Editori, 2011.

Belli, G., and F. Mangone. Capodimonte, Materdei, Vomero. Idee e progetti urbanistici per la Napoli collinare, 1860-1936. Napoli: Grimaldi & C. Editori, 2012.

Belli, G. “Progettare la città per le vacanze in Italia tra teoria e pratiche, 1902-1950.” In Architettura e paesaggio della villegiatura in Italia tra Otto e Novecento. Edited by G. Belli, F. Mangone and M. G. Tamperi, 15-30. Milano: Franco Angeli Editore, 2015.

Belli, G. “Luigi Piccinato and the beach tourism: from the modern design to the seaside towns planning.” In Territorios del turismo: el imaginario turístico y la construcción del paisaje contemporáneo. Edited by N. Fava and M. García Vergara, 287-296. Barcellona: Viguera, 2014.

Belli, G, and A. Maglio, “Città e cinema.” Storia dell’Urbanistica, no. 11 (2019). https://www.storiadellacitta.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/SdU_11-2019.pdf

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