Laura Verdelli is an architect (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), whit a post diploma in Landscape Architecture and a co-tutored PhD in Urban and Regional Planning at the François-Rabelais University of Tours (France) and in Cultural Heritage and Museology at the University of Coimbra (Portugal). She is an Associate professor at the Spatial Planning and Environment Department of the Engineering Polytechnic School of the University of Tours and a researcher at the laboratory UMR 7324 CITERES and at the EA 6294 LÉA of the University of Tours. Laura Verdelli focuses her researches: - on the processes of identification, protection and valorisation of cultural landscapes in the Mediterranean; - on the contemporary dynamics engendered by the above mentioned processes (particularly in UNESCO’s labelled sites); - on the interactions between heritigization and (strategic) spatial planning. VERDELLI L. (ed.), 2015 – Sustainability in heritage protected area, AESOP, 306 pp. DEMAZIERE C., SERVAIN-COURANT S., VERDELLI L. (eds.), 2013, Formes urbaines et développement durable, Actes du colloque « Quelles formes spatiales pour le développement urbain durable ? » dans le cadre du 137ème congrès du CTHS, 188 pp. VERDELLI L., PINI D., 2012 - Planning and management of urban and landscape heritage, Bononia University Press, 238 pp.