Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the School of Architecture and Cultural Heritage of Syracuse, Dept. of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Catania (Italy) . Lecturer of Urban Planning and Urban Design at Architecture MSc Programme, and staff member of the ‘Laboratory for Spatial and Environmental Planning – (LaPTA). His main fields of interests are city and regional planning, management issues related to land use, urban sustainability and the interaction between land use and transports. He is currently involved in urban design and city planning, using an holistic approach that is particularly committed to environmental issues. Based on these topics, he published more than eighty among scientific papers and books, edited books and International journals special issues, attended several international scientific conferences as an invited speaker and session coordinator, organised and hosted national and international conferences, seminars and workshops and served as a peer-reviewer from several International scientific journals indexed on Scopus and ISI Web of Knowledge databases. Since 1995 he worked as a consultant planner on urban and regional planning studies (mainly master plans, and detail plans of historical centres). Member of Italian Institute of Urbanism (INU), since 2008 and Member of the INU national Steering Comittee since 2025.