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- Associate Professor
- The Bartlett School of Planning
- Faculty of the Built Environment
I am an Associate Professor in Spatial Planning at the Bartlett
School of Planning, University College London and my career spans the field of
education and professional practices.
I have a wide appreciation of planning, housing, social and urban
issues, having worked for both public and private sector as a chartered
practitioner Architect and city Planner in Italy, Spain, Portugal, UK and USA
(NY), and having researched and taught in several European countries.
I am interested in international comparative studies from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, with a particular attention to (Southern) European cities. My research foci on ethnic residential segregation and the role of the state in the production of inequality sit between a broader understanding of the various European housing systems and welfare regimes, and the impact of urban policies and regeneration programmes in relation to mechanisms of redistribution and of marginalisation. My interest in urban processes ranges from the production of the built environment to urban and social changes (e.g. gentrification, peripheralisation, etc.), and with a critical look at policies for social and tenure mixing, de-segregation, and lately on financialisation of social housing.
Between 2012 and 2014 I have developed a research project on ‘’DiverCities: Neighbourhood interventions, and social and ethnic mix: the tackling of urban inequalities’’ funded by the Marie Curie Programme (FP7 – PEOPLE Intra-European fellowship) and hosted at the Pompeu Fabra University, Dept. of Political and Social Science, Barcelona.
I have been collaborating with a variety of Universities across Europe in international research projects and research networks (EU URBAN INNOVATIVE Action, COST Action).
Currently I am
the Director of MSc in International Planning at the Bartlett School of
Planning, where I have been teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate
level since 2003 on strategic planning projects, production of the built
environment and comparative housing studies. I am a guest lecturer at various
European universities in Spain, Portugal and Italy on European housing systems and urban programmes, production of urban inequalities and ethnic residential segregation.
Current
teaching
BPLN0006 - Plan-Making
Studio II (MPlan City Planning)
BPLN0046 - International
Planning Project (MSc International Planning)
BPLN0020 - Critical Debates
in Housing Development (MSc Housing & City Planning)
previously,
ENVS2010 – Strategic
Planning Project (BSc Urban Studies)
ENVS2019 – Production of the
Built Environment (BSc Urban Planning, Design & Management)
BENVGPLD – Space & Place
B (MSc Spatial Planning)
01-OCT-2013 | Senior Lecturer | Bartlett School of Planning | UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, United Kingdom |
01-OCT-2012 – 30-SEP-2014 | Marie Curie Research Fellow | Departament de Ciències Polítiques i Socials | Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain |
11-SEP-2006 – 30-SEP-2013 | Lecture | Bartlett School of Planning | UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, United Kingdom |
23-SEP-2003 – 10-SEP-2006 | Teaching Fellow (part-time) | Bartlett School of Planning | UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, United Kingdom |
01-SEP-2003 – 30-JUN-2006 | Visiting Lecturer (part-time) | Department of Urban Development and Regeneration | University of Westminster, United Kingdom |
2007 | Doctor of Philosophy | University College London | |
1995 | Master of Architecture | Politecnico di Milano |