Maria Chiara Tosi
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Maria Chiara is Associate Professor of Urbanism
at Università Iuav di Venezia, where
she also serves as an active member of the faculty board of the PhD school. She is broadly
interested in how welfare
state policies affect both the physical and the socio-economic aspects of urban environments. Specifically, her research is mainly
–but not only- focused on the dispersion of settlements in
the Veneto region. She has been part of numerous Italian and international research projects on the study of the evolution of urban settlements. She has extensively lectured and published on
public space; her recent books include Welfare Spaces.
On the Role of Welfare State Policies
in the Construction of the Contemporary
City, and Toward an Atlas of European Delta Landscape. She is in charge
of the relationship among
Iuav and various international
institutions, and she was Visiting Researcher at the College of Environmental Design at UC
Berkeley. Maria Chiara received a PhD in Urbanism
from Sapienza University of Rome, and a Master’s in Urban Planning with honors
from Università Iuav di Venezia. |