Carlo Monti

carlo monti

personal
nationality: italian
born: bologna, 07/12/1940
residence: bologna
languages: italian (native), spanish (fluent), english, french (basic)

current position
professore a contratto, school of engineering  and architecture
education
laurea in civil and building engineering, university of bologna,1967

previous positions
assistant professor of tecnica urbanistica, university of bologna,1972
temporary teacher of tecnica urbanistica, university of bologna,1975
full professor of pianificazione territoriale at the faculty of engineering, university of udine, 1982
full professor of tecnica urbanistica, department of architecture and planning (dapt), university of bologna since 1983.
full professor at the faculty of engineering, university of bologna
chairman of the master in architettura sostenibile ,university of bologna
chairman of centro studi progettazione edilizia eco-sostenibile (ecological design), dapt, university of bologna
chairman of m.a. architecture and building engineering, university of bologna
chairman of the bachelor of building engineering, ravenna, university of bologna

chairman of dapt from november 1998 to november 2004
member of senato accademico of the university of bologna 2002-2005

member of several committees for urbanistic and architecture competitions, committees for university competitions and committees for local authorities.

councillor of the province of bologna from 1985 to 1995; member of Carisbo

Foundation


research interests
theoretical and applied researches on urban and regional planning, above all on:
- historical settlement policies
- environmental and landscape organisation, rehabilitation and control
- environmental impact evaluation
- urban design methods and techniques
- urban government
- metropolitan areas
- urban renewal
- sustainable settlements and urban form
- rural settlement policies


other professional activities
in charge of research projects on new planning methodologies financed by the ministry of university and the consiglio nazionale delle ricerche.

established several partnerships with foreign universities and institutions (e.g. brazil, russia, colombia, etc); participant in international research and teaching projects (i.e. onu sup-habitat program, erasmus, etc).

collaborated in the drawing up of several plans at different levels:
-historical settlements (cagliari, imola, cesena, etc)
-local plans
-strategic plans (rimini, etc.)
-structure plans (ravenna, ferrara, reggio emilia, teramo,udine, fidenza, etc.)

publications
published more than one hundred articles, essays, volumes, i.e. a series of studies on planning in european countries (uk, benelux ,france, scandinavian countries, urss, poland, germany) and volumes “metodi della pianificazione territoriale” (1979), “analisi e pianificazione del territorio rurale” (1985), “elementi di urbanistica” (2000); volumes “dal cannocchiale alle stelle: strumenti per il nuovo piano” (1999), series “costruire sostenibile” (2000,2001,2002), “costruire il futuro” (2003,2004,2005) and “osservatorio permanente sulla riqualificazione della città” about experiences of urban restoration and renewal in emilia-romagna.

more recent publications :

sezione “città-territorio” (pag.1-90) de “ il nuovo manuale europeo di bioarchitettura”, collana “grandi manuali”, mancosu editore, roma, 2007.
“e’ possibile migliorare la qualità urbana?”, in: “rethinking the city”, alinea, 2007.
“città fra terre e acqua”, “l’italia si trasforma, città fra terre e acqua”, be-ma editrice, milano, 2007.
“il progetto ecosostenibile, metodi e soluzioni per la casa e la città” (editor), clueb, bologna, 2008.
“dal progetto al governo della città”, clueb, bologna, 2008.

Olivetti e l'urbanistica.Un modello utopico, ma anche un bussola da ritrovare, in Il Modello Olivetti, Passato, presente. E futuro? M.La Risa (editor), Angeli, Milano 2022,