Maurizio CARTA

Full Professor of Urbanism and Regional Planning, Department of Architecture, University of Palermo. Deputy Mayor for Urban Regeneration at Palermo Municipality. Palermo, Italy.

Architect, PhD and full professor of urbanism and regional planning at the Department of Architecture of the University of Palermo. Founder and Director of the Augmented City Lab, an international research agency about the cities of the future. He is senior expert in strategic planning, urban design and local development, drawing up several urban, landscape and strategic plans in Italy. In 2015 he was awarded by the International Biennial of Architecture in Buenos Aires. In 2019 he was Italian Design Ambassador for the Foreign Affairs Ministry. He is visiting professor or keynote speaker in several universities and institutions. He is author of more than 300 publications, the last are Città aumentate. Dieci gesti-barriera per il futuro (Il Margine, 2021), Cosmopolitan Habitat (with J. Schroeder et al, Jovis, 2021), Homo Urbanus (Donzelli, 2022), Romanzo urbanistico (Sellerio, 2024), Sette lezioni di rigenerazione urbana (LetteraVentidue, 2025).