The team
Prof Sergio Porta
Professor
Director of the Urban Design Studies Unit (UDSU)
Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde
Sergio Porta is professor of urban Design, director of Urban Design Studies Unit, director of MSc in Urban Design, co-Director of Strathclyde Centre of Urban Policy Planning and Technology and former Head of Department, at Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde Glasgow. He chaired the 2021 International Seminar of Urban Form Conference and is a member of the ISUF Council. He is External Examiner at University of Cardiff, Manchester and Westminster, advisor to international organisations, sits on the editorial boards of leading journals in urban science and design and is regularly invited speaker to international conferences. His research is on sustainable masterplanning, urban form analytics and morphometrics, and radical community-based architectural design. He published over sixty papers on international peer-reviewed journals and two monographs. He is among the Top 100 Arts, Design and Architecture Scientists 2021 by AD Scientific Index.
Dr Ombretta Romice
Reader
Urban Design Studies Unit (UDSU)
Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde
Ombretta is Reader in the Dept of Architecture and the Urban Design Studies Unit. She has a Masters in Architecture, a PhD in Urban Design and a Post-doc in urban regeneration sponsored by the EU. She is past president of IAPS, Academic member of the AoU, Associate of RTPI and of HEA. She is currently external examiner at UCL and Cardiff University. She has authored/co-authored 6 books, numerous Journal articles and sits on the Editorial and Scientific Boards of several journals and organizations. In the University, she is Director of the DTC of the Strathclyde Centre of Urban Policy Planning and Technology. In the Department, she is director of Undergraduate and PGT Dissertations and teaches numerous classes in research methods and urban design. Her research interests are in community participation in design and decision making, environmental psychology, and the link between the measurement of urban form and different aspects of quality of life and community performance.
Dr Alessandra Feliciotti
Lecturer
Director of the Urban Design Studies Unit (UDSU)
Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde
Alessandra Feliciotti is Lecturer in Urban Design at the Department of Architecture University of Strathclyde and GIS analyst at MindEarth since 2019. She holds a MSc Degree in Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Venice (Italy) and holds a PhD in Urban Regeneration and Urban Resilience from the University of Strathclyde. She completed a Post Doc on Urban Form Resilience Assessment funded by the Axel and Margaret Axson Johnson Foundation in collaboration with ARUP focused on the resilience of spatial systems in cities at the neighbourhood and district scale. She is executive member of the Urban Resilience Research Network, an international research community of academics, practitioners and consultants interested in understanding, exploring and broadening multidisciplinary perspectives on urban resilience.
Dr Alessandro Venerandi
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Urban Design Studies Unit (UDSU)
Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde
Alessandro Venerandi is a research fellow at the Urban Design Studies Unit (UDSU), University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (UK). He has a master degree in Architecture, with specialisation in urban design, from the Polytechnic of Milan (Italy) and a doctorate in urban sustainability and resilience from the University College London (UCL) (UK). He is an experienced researcher in the field of urban science and analytics in both professional and academic environments, having led several research projects in collaboration with established firms, start-ups, and academic departments. He is the main author and co-author in several books and peer-reviewed research articles, featured in top journals and conferences focusing on urban morphology and city science. His main research aim is to investigate, through quantitative methods, what the ‘good’ city form is, by investigating the relationship between physical aspects of the urban environment, sustainability, socioeconomics, and well-being of city dwellers.