Carlos Smaniotto Costa

Role: 
Management Committee Member
Position: 
MC Chair
Country: 
Portugal
Member of: 
Working Group WG 5 - Networking & dissemination
Task Group Editorial Board
Short biography: 

CARLOS SMANIOTTO COSTA (PhD) holds a diploma degree in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning and a PhD degree in Urban and Landscape Planning from the Leibniz University Hanover/Germany. He is professor of Landscape Design and Urban Ecology in Masters and PhD programmes in Urban Planning at the Lusófona and member of its Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Education and Development, where he is the coordinator of the research unit on Territorial Studies. He has been working in different research projects with different issues but all centred in sustainable urban development and transforming cities in more liveable spaces. He has several publications in professional journals in Portuguese, German, English, and Italian.

Research interests: 

Spatial development, urban development, urban regeneration, urban ecology, landscape design & planning, green spaces development, environment and nature in urban development, public spaces, design and use of public spaces, process-oriented / participation in urban development

Institution and contacts:
Universidade Lusófona
CeiED Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Education and Development
LE3P Experimental Lab on Communication, Education and Public Spaces
Campo Grande, 376
1749-024
Lisboa
Country: 
Portugal
Phone: 
(+351) 217 515 500 - ext. 2350
Fax: 
(+351) 217 577 006
Mail: 
smaniotto.costa [at] ulusofona.pt