Francesco Musco

Full Professor in Urban Planning and Design at the Department of Architecture and Arts – Università Iuav di Venezia, where he serves as Director of Research. Founder and director until 2022 of the MSc In Urban Planning for Transition and coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Master’s Course on Maritime Spatial Planning. He also serves on the board of the CORILA Consortium for Coordination of Research Activities concerning the Venice Lagoon System.

His career is characterised by a multidisciplinary approach to urban and environmental planning. In recent years, he has concluded his research on the relationship between urban planning, design, sustainability, and resilience, with particular attention to processes of sustainable urban regeneration and their contribution to climate-proof planning.. In 2011 he founded the Planning & Climate Change Lab active in applied research and consultancy to support innovations for planning and designing resilient cities at international level.