Full Professor of Urban Planning and Design in the Department of Design Cultures at the IUAV University of Venice. He teaches in the master’s degree program in Planning and Policies for Cities, Territories, and the Environment. He has taught and conducted research in Italy and abroad at the University of Louisville, Kentucky (Center for Environmental Policy and Management), Drexel University in Philadelphia, Parma (Faculty of Economics), Bologna (Faculty of Engineering), Reading (Department of Real Estate and Planning), Barcelona (UAB, Geography), Alghero (Uniss, Architecture), and Seville.

An advocate of a multidisciplinary approach to urban and territorial planning, in recent years he has focused his research on the relationships between urban planning, sustainability, and resilience, with particular attention to the themes of sustainable urban regeneration and the role of local plans in contributing to “climate-proof” planning.

He serves as a consultant to numerous public and private entities in Italy and abroad in the field of urban planning, assisting with the development of environmental, territorial, and local development policies.

In 2011, he founded the Planning & Climate Change Lab, which conducts applied research to support innovations in planning and design for resilient cities and experiments with the implementation of urban resilience at the international level. He has over 130 publications and scientific works to his credit. He currently serves as editor-in-chief of the “Planning for Climate-Proof Cities” book series published by Springer Verlag.