Overview
Track
Track 5: Focusing on Heritage and Smart Culture
Company / Institute
University of Tours
Position
Lecturer
I'm interested in
City and Regional Planning
Heritage and Conservation
Housing and Social Justice
Land use Planning and Management
Landscape, Architecture and Urban Design
Public Participation
Sustainability and Resilience
Bio
Since 2009, Laura Verdelli is Associate professor at the Spatial Planning and Environment Department of the Engineering Polytechnic School of the University of Tours (France) and researcher at the laboratory CITERES (a mixed unit of both the CNRS French National Centre for Scientific Research and the University of Tours). She is an architect (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), has a post diploma in Landscape Architecture (Fondazione Minoprio, Italy) and obtained a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning at the François-Rabelais University of Tours (France) and in Cultural Heritage and Museology at the University of Coimbra (Portugal). Laura Vercelli’s research focuses on the construction of new heritage objects (architectural legacies of colonial origin, productive cultural landscapes, lands on water, traditional water management systems) and their spatial impacts, taking into account different aspects: public policies, tourism, evolution of stakeholder systems. Her main keywords are: - process of identification, protection and enhancement of heritages and landscapes; - contemporary heritage dynamics; labeling (in particular linked to UNESCO); - interactions between heritage planning and spatial (strategic) planning; - contemporary dynamics of development along water.
