Donatella Calabi

Donatella Calabi is a co-founder of Visualizing Venice, a member of the Steering Committee, and coordinator of Visualizing Venice’s Venice team. She is former chair-professor of Urban History at the Università Iuav di Venezia and has served as visiting professor at the EHSS of Paris, at the British Academy, at University of Leicester, of Leuven, of Sao Paulo (Brasil), and at the MSH of Tokyo. She has been president of the European Association of Urban Historians (EAUH) and of the Italian Association of Urban History (AISU), and Team Leader of the group on Cities and Cultural Exchanges of the European Science Foundation. From 2002 to 2010 she directed the International Ph.D. Program on History of Arts of the School for Advanced Studies in Venice Foundation.  Calabi’s research focuses on town planning between the 19th and the 20th centuries. She has published Marcel Poëte et le Paris des années Vingt, Paris 1998; Storia dell’urbanistica europea, Milan 2008; as well as a number of books on the early modern European city, including Rialto: le fabbriche e il ponte, Turin 1987; La città degli ebrei, Venice 1991/1996; Il mercato e la città, Venice 1993 (revised in English as The Market and the City, London: Ashgate 2004); Piazze fabbriche, mercati. La città italiana del Rinascimento, Rome 1997; Venise, Paris 1999; Les Etrangers dans la ville, Paris 1999; La città del primo Rinascimento, Rome 2001; Storia della città. Età moderna, Venice 2001).

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