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Maurizio Carta
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Maurizio Carta (born Palermo, Sicily, 1967) is an Italian urban planner and architect. He is full professor of urban and regional planning at the Department of Architecture at the University of Palermo, he teaches urban design and planning and he is the author of several scientific publications.
Carta graduated in 1991 in Architecture with a specialization in Urbanism. In 1996 he obtained a PhD in urban and regional planning at the University of Palermo. In 1999 and 2000 he was Visiting Scholar at the Columbia University of New York, under the scientific lead of Peter Marcuse. In 1998 he was among the founders of the Bachelor and Master Degree in "Urbanism and Regional and Landscape Planning" of the University of Palermo, which was inspired by the holistic urban planning vision of Adriano Olivetti and Giovanni Astengo.
From November 2015 he is the president of the Polytechnic School of the University of Palermo. He is the director and the scientific responsible of the “Smart Planning Lab”, an applied research lab in advanced planning for smart cities and social innovation. From 2013 to October 2015 he was the coordinator of the B.Sc in "Urbanism, regional and landscape planning" and of the M.Sc in "Urban and Regional Planning". He is senior expert on strategic planning, urbanism, urban regeneration and local development and he was the author of several urban, landscape and strategic plans in Sicily and in Southern Italy. He is member of Italian Society of Urbanism (SIU) Steering Committee, member of Italian Institute of Urbanism (INU) Steering Committee and member of Urban Academy (AU) Steering Committee. He is member of the Scientific Committee of the international review TRIA. Rivista internazionale di cultura urbanistica (Università Degli Studi Di Napoli Federico II). He is member of the Editorial Board of the international review Monograph.it (ListLab Laboratorio Internazionale di Strategie Editoriali, Trento-Barcelona). He is member of the Editorial Board of the international review EWT/ EcoWebTown (ISSN 2039-2656).
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