Paesaggio Urbano
Paesaggio Urbano - Urban Design is a bimonthly magazine focusing on architecture and urban design, founded in 1989, published by Gruppo Maggioli.
The magazine offers a multi-disciplinary approach on urban phenomena like sociology, urban typology, economics, architecture and local and international cultural trends. The main focus of the magazine is the urban transformation and the analysis of influencing factors that impact on contemporary architecture. Since 2010 the magazine has started its internationalization process offering contents in English as part of its major restyle in 2011.
Every issue include a monographic dossier focusing on specific topics, like colour, building renovation, sustainability and urban design related themes.
Organisation
Editorial board
- Editor in Chief: Amalia Maggioli
- Director: Marcello Balzani
- Vice Director: Nicola Marzot
Scientific Committee
- Paolo Baldeschi
- Lorenzo Berna
- Marco Bini
- Ricky Burdett
- Giovanni Carbonara
- Manuel Gausa
- Pierluigi Giordani
- Giuseppe Guerrera
- Thomas Herzog
- Winy Maas
- Francesco Moschini
- Attilio Petruccioli
- Franco Purini
- Carlo Quintelli
- Alfred Rütten
- Livio Sacchi
- Pino Scaglione
- Giuseppe Strappa
- Kimmo Suomi
- Francesco Taormina
Web Site and the Vimeo Channel
The magazine went online and created a web site to make its archive available to a wider audience. The website is constantly updated with the latest issues.Issues released before 2010 present magazines' covers and the complete table of contents. Issues published from 2011 presents English abstracts of all articles and an English version of the main articles.
Since 2012 the magazine launched a Vimeo channel offering a number of videos and documentaries which complete the èrinted articles and provide more insights on the leading topics.