Valentina Orioli

Architect and PhD, she is Associate professor of Urban Planning at the Department of Architecture. In 2021-2024 she has been councilor at the Municipality of Bologna in charge of New mobility, infrastructures, public transport, 30 km/h City, protection of cultural heritage and historical gardens. In the previous administrative mandate 2016-21 she was councilor in charge of Urban Planning, Environment, Nomination of "I Portici di Bologna" to Unesco WHL and deputy mayor since 2020.

Her teaching and research activities are aimed at the knowledge and experimentation of tools for the design and governance of urban and regional transformations, in a perspective that focuses on physical space and its regeneration and draws on the comparison with the disciplinary tradition but also with urban history.

She is President of Urban@it, a National center for urban policy studies based at the University of Bologna and a member of the International Commission for the History of Towns (ICHT).