The Journal of Public Space

Elisa Ravazzoli
EURAC Research
Italy

Elisa Ravazzoli is a human geographer, working as a senior researcher at the Institute for Regional Development at the European Academy of Bozen/Bolzen (eurac research). She is also contract professor at the University of Verona and University of Bergamo, where she teaches undergraduate courses. She has a PhD in Economics - Policy and Culture of the Territory from the University of Bologna and a MA in Geography and Territorial Processes from the same university. Her research focuseson different topics related to human, urban and regional geography (e.g. regional spatial disparities; population patterns; urban-rural divide; public spaces; spatial humanities) and she uses the GIS as a main instrument of investigation and data visualization.

Gian Paolo Torricelli
http://www.arc.usi.ch/ost
Università della Svizzera italana, Accademia di Architettura
Switzerland

Geographer, PhD in Economics and Social Sciences (University of Geneva), enabled as university professor (Univ. of Grenoble, France, 2002). He is currently responsible, since 2007, for the courses of Urban Geography and Spatial development (Master) and for the Observatory of Spatial Development, a laboratory for the monitoring and controlling of territorial policies of the Ticino Canton, at the Accademia di architettura (Università della svizzera italiana - USI). He has taught at the Universities of Geneva (1993-2000), University of Buenos Aires (visiting professor 1998 and 2015), University of Grenoble (visiting professor 2000/01) and Milan (contracted professor: 2002-2009). He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Alpine Research / Revue de Géographie Alpine (Grenoble, France); is science correspondent of the Revista Transporte y Territorio (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) and of Perspectiva Geográfica (Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi), Bogotá, Colombia. His research and publications cover in particular on issues of urbanization and mobility of mountain areas, history and epistemology of cartography, mapping and geographic information systems, and more recently on urban public space in European, South-American and African cities.