An economist by training, Tommaso's research focuses on the economic analysis of urban policy issues with expertise encompassing several topics: the economic modelling of real estate markets, the financial viability of major urban projects, multi-dimensional value measurements and value-capture, as well as urban policy issues related to segregation, poverty and deprivation. His research combines behavioural economics, game theory, real options analysis, and a range of qualitative empirical methods. He has developed novel expertise in interdisciplinary methods that can bridge urban planning/design to economics and he is one of few economists actively collaborating with scholars in urban planning and urban design in the UK. He has recently participated in two funded projects under the leadership of Prof. Matthew Carmona: “Street Appeal” commissioned by Transport for London, with explicit recognition of its research impact (see https://content.tfl.gov.uk/street-appeal.pdf) and the large “UrbanMaestro” project funded for 1m Euros within the Horizon 2020 programme (see urbanmaestro.org). He is currently leading the project “Future Urban Growth Lab” funded by UCL Knowledge Exchange and Innovation Funding, a scheme supporting projects that connect UCL researchers with communities beyond the university to exchange ideas, evidence and expertise; in this project a team from the Bartlett School of Planning (Tommaso as PI and Prof. Stephen Marshall Co-I) formed a partnership with the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) and Dr. Luca D’Acci (Associate Professor in UrbanStudies at Politecnico of Turin, Italy) with the objective to operationalise an urban growth model prototype and trialling it in a way that is of use to local authorities in envisaging options for future city growth.