Associate Professor Valeria Lingua

Department of Urban and Regional Planning (University of Firenze)

Valeria Lingua is associate professor in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Florence, Department of Architecture, Regional Design Lab. Her research interests are concerned with spatial planning and regional design, with a focus on cooperative governance in strategic planning practices at regional and local levels.
Recent research activities concern the rescaling of planning systems and spatial planning across local boundaries, in the framework of a research project founded by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research within the prestigious SIR Programme (Scientific Independence of young Researchers) aimed to support young researchers at the start of their independent research activity.