Creative Heritage

Maurizio Carta, p. 46, p. 98.
Architect and urban planner, PhD. Full Professor of Urban and Regional Planning
at the Department of Architecture of the University of Palermo; current President
of the Polytechnic School of the University of Palermo. Senior expert in strategic
planning, urban design, and local development. Author of several urban, landscape,
and strategic plans in Italy. He is directing the Smart Planning Lab with
the aim of improving the smartness of cities and communities. He has been a
member of the steering committees of the Italian Society of Urban Planners (SIU),
the Accademia Urbana (AU), and the National Institute of Urbanism (INU). From
2009–2011 he was Deputy Mayor for Urban Regeneration and Strategic Planning
of the City of Palermo. He has been Visiting Professor at several international
universities and institutions. Author of several publications, including: Next City:
Culture City (Meltemi, 2004), Creative City (List, 2007), Governare l’evoluzione
(FrancoAngeli, 2009) Re-think, Re-load, Reimagining Urbanism (ListLab, 2014),
Urban Hyper-Metabolism (with B. Lino, 2015), The Fluid City Paradigm (with D.
Ronsivalle, Springer, 2016), Re-cyclical Urbanism (with B. Lino and D. Ronsivalle,
List, 2017), Augmented City (List, 2017).
Daniele Caruso, p. 82.
Master’s degree from the University of Naples Federico II in Urban, Environmental,
and Landscape planning with a thesis focused on infrastructure recycling as
multi-scale armature of landscape. PhD candidate with a thesis on the role of blue
infrastructure for sustainable urban development.
Gilda Collet Bruna, p. 58.
Architect and urbanist. Graduate of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of
the University of São Paulo (FAUUSP), 1968. PhD in Architecture and Urbanism
from USP, 1973. Post-doctoral studies in city planning, JICA Japan International
Cooperation Agency, Japan, 1977. “Livre-Docente,” USP, 1980. Professor of
graduate course on Regional and Urban Planning in Brazil, at UNM, Albuquerque,
New Mexico, USA, 1985. Professor of undergraduate course, FAUUSP, 1971–
1997. Professor of graduate course, FAUUSP, 1978–2003. Dean of FAUUSP,
1991–1994. President of EMPLASA 1995–2000. Full Professor at the Faculty
of Architecture and Urbanism of Mackenzie Presbyterian University since 2002;
Co-ordinator of graduate programme, 2005–08. Research Fellowship from CNPq
Brazil (Council for Scientific and Technological Development) since 2012.
Stefania D‘Alterio, p. 70.
Urban planner, PhD student in Urban Planning. Graduated from the University
of Naples Federico II. She has been participant in conferences and exhibits on
environmental infrastructure in contemporary city and published about resilient
urban regeneration.
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