Carmen Mariano is an Associate Professor in Urban Planning, PDTA Department, Sapienza – University of Rome. She is President of a Master's degree course in Architecture–Urban Regeneration. She is a principal investigator for many International and national research programs on metropolitan governance models, relationships between climate change and urban regeneration strategies in terms of comparisons for the innovation and experimentation of urban planning and on the Urban Project as a tool for defining new methods of planning and design for the construction of the public city, housing policies and quality of living. The results of this research have been published in books, many scientific journals, and specialized volumes. She has carried out design and experimentation activities in the field of urban and territorial planning and she was a technical/scientific consultant on behalf of public bodies.