Urban and Transit Planning

FRANCESCO ALBERTI 
Francesco Alberti is Associate Professor of Urban Planning and design at the Department of Architecture of the University of Florence, where he is currently in charge of the Laboratory of Urban Planning and Design at the 5-year Master's Degree Course in Architecture, and of the course "Smart City Planning" for the postgraduate programme "ABITA" (Bioecological Architecture and Technological Innovation for the Environment). In the same Department, he is the scientific coordinator of the research unit "SUP&R" (Sustainable Urban Projects & Research) and of the related university spin-off "Urban LIFE" (Urban Liveability & Innovation for Everyone).He is in charge of the role of Mobility manager for the University of Florence and a member of the University's scientific team at the spoke "Urban Mobility" of the "Nation Centre on Sustainable Mobility", established in 2022 by the Italian Government with special funds from theNational Plan for Recovery and Resilience.
As a member of the Italian National Institute of Urban Planning (INU - Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica) he joined the National Commetees "Networks, Infrastructure and Innovation Policies" (2014-2016), "Urban Accessibility for Everyone" (2016-) and "Mobility, Infrastructure, and logistics" (2019-). From 2016 to 2022 he served as President of the Regional division of INU in Tuscany.His scientific interests in the fields of spatial planning and urban design refer to an approach aimed at giving cultural consistency and operational continuity between the dimensions of research and education on the themes of the city and the territory, with a special focus on two main areas: 
- the relationship between urban planning, design and management in the perspective of sustainability; - the interpretation of mobility systems as "public spaces", playing a major role in structuring contemporary territories.
On these topics he has written many essays, articles and books, joined and chaired national and international conferences, lectured in postgraduate programmes and master courses for professionals and public administrators, provided expert help in participatory processes, coordinated seminars and conducted research on behalf of public institutions and private enterprises. 
Abraham R. Matamanda 
Abraham R. Matamanda is Urban and Regional Planner who has also been trained as Social Ecologist. He is currently Lecturer in the Department of Geography, University of Free State. His current research focuses on urban governance and planning, climate change adaptation, informal urbanism in the Global South, human settlement planning, systems thinking, human geography and political economy. He is Co-editor of the book titled Urban Geography in Postcolonial Zimbabwe: Paradigmsand perspectives for sustainable urban planning and governance published with Springer Nature in 2021.  Adriana Galderisi
She is Architect and Graduated-cum-Laude in Architecture in 1989. She did Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning in 2000. She is Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design of the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli. 
She was one of the founding members of the thematic group "Resilience and Risks Mitigation Strategies (RRMS)" within the AESOP (Association of European Schools of Planning) in 2007, and she is currently a part of the Coordinating Board.
She has carried out research on issues related to sustainability of urban environment, vulnerability and resilience of urban systems in the face of environmental risks, also in the context of several national and European projects. 
She also authore

Towards adaptive planning of urban spaces in the context of a new agile urbanism.- A Study of Urban Size Control in the Japanese Understanding of Garden Cities in the Early 1900s.- Energy Efficiency and Building's Envelope: An Integrated Approach to High-Performance Architecture.- Mapping Social Cohesion and Identity in Intercultural Public Spaces: The Case of Germantown.- The Power of Long-Term Residents in Consensus Building for Reconstruction of the Housing Complex area: Case study on Tama City, Tokyo.- Urban regeneration through Climate Adaptive Design for the Mediterranean area.- Understanding Place Attachment Process Through Instagram Narratives and Imagery of Historic Urban Places.- Future Study of Regional Spatial Structure in Iran (Horizon 2040).- Istanbul: The Ecology, Nature and Disasters Designing Future Cities With Innovative Housing Projects.- City-effect: new centralities in post-pandemic regional metropolis Pescara-Chieti.- Compactness as a Condition, Compaction as an Ambition - Potentials and Pitfalls of an Interdisciplinary Global Debate on the Compact City.