Her many areas of expertise, both in teaching than in research activities, lead with urban history and morphology, strategic urban design and the planning/design tools at the urban scale, and can be related to the following topics:
1_Techniques and tools for urban regeneration and local government: planning and policies at the urban scale; the reform of local government in Italy and the “metropolitan cities”;
2_Landascape and architecture of the seaside districts: birth and growth of the seaside cities; relationship between tourism and planning;
3_Urban planning and housing: urban and architectural regeneration of the social housing districts in Italy and in Europe;
4_Public spaces and urban design in the city-territory: design of public spaces, infrastructures and mobility; relationship between urban and rural space; public space as a training field for collaborative planning.