Phd in ENGINEERING-BASED ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING

email: barbara.pizzo@uniroma1.it
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building: Piazza Borghese 9

Barbara Pizzo, PhD, is Research Professor in Urban and Regional Planning at Sapienza University of Rome. She works mainly in the field of Planning Theory with a critical orientation, and on the Theory-Practice nexus. Her interests are in the processes of socio-spatial structuration, the relationships between spatial planning to socio-economic changes, politics and policies, which she inquires analyzing urban transformations in their outcomes and results, considering the relationships between regulation and the production, extraction and redistribution of value in the urban space.

She has focused on the concept of Landscape as an instrument to investigate the social construction of reality; the reconfiguration of space in its relations to rights and power; the importance of time and scale; the political meaning of nature and the related environmental issues, with a competence on environmental risks (seismic risk in particular).

She works mainly in interdisciplinary research groups, where planning is considered together with policy analysis, urban sociology and political economy, so that keeping together the ‘How’ with the ‘Why’ of urban processes progressively became a distinct feature of her research and teaching approach.

Since her PhD years, she is engaged into research methodology problems in the field of planning and urban studies, being invited in a number of seminars dedicated to that topic; she co-founded and co-organized a “PhD Research Methodology School”, a network of Italian PhDs programmes which share a specific interest in research approaches and methodologies in spatial planning and urban studies.

She has been member, as senior researcher, co-coordinator and coordinator of many research groups, of national and international level, including EU funding projects. Most of her research activities are published, or entered in Regional Laws, or in PA planning or regulatory tools (e.g. as Guide-lines).

She has been visiting scholar in a number of universities in Europe; more recently she has been visiting professor at Ben Gurion University – Israel (2016), and at TU Wien – Austria (2018).

Aesop (Association of European Schools of Planning) National Representative, contact person for the ‘School of Planning’ of Sapienza.

International evaluation committees: 'Thematic Expert' dell'UE - URBACT II - topic: 'Governance and Urban Planning'; EU - Cultural Heritage + Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, Evaluation Team JPI CULTURAL HERITAGE; Member of Aesop Experts Pool.

CVs: https://web.uniroma1.it/pdta/barbara-pizzo; https://skuor.tuwien.ac.at/en/professors/covvps/barbara-pizzo