Marco Adelfio
Marco Adelfio is an Urban Planner with a PhD in Geography from the Autonomous University of Madrid (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid). His research focuses on multi-stakeholder processes and driving forces contributing to compact, mixed-use and socially sustainable urban/suburban development. He has expertise in mixing qualitative and quantitative methods, assessment of best practice transferability and use of geographic information systems for co-production of knowledge. Before moving to Sweden he was teaching urban design and urban planning at different Spanish universities. In the past he also worked in Madrid as an urban planning consultant, dealing with large clients such as the Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), the National Agency of Spain for Land Development and Endesa - a leading electricity company in Spain and Latin America.
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GISualization: visualized integration of multiple types of data for knowledge co-production
Social Inclusion: When community outreach becomes the core of architectural education. Facts and figures about a studio in the Master programme Architecture and Planning Beyond Sustainability 2014-2018 at Chalmers
Social sustainability and new neighbourhoods
The complex interrelation of community action and planning
Disentangling the compact city drivers and pressures: Barcelona as a case study
Towards a suburban compact city? Methodological challenges in the application of a mixed-method and multi-stakeholder approach
Circling urban transformations. Methodological and data management challenges in the analysis of compact city processes
Difusión residencial metropolitana en zonas de frontera con tradición rural-agraria: Cubas de la Sagra (Madrid)
Assumed Qualities of Compact Cities: Divergences Between the Global North and the Global South in the Research Discourse
Socially Sustainable Suburbia: Addressing a Puzzling and Multifaceted Issue
Procesos de difusión residencial en antiguas capitales comarcales. Colmenar Viejo (Madrid)
Historical perspectives and recent trends in single-family housing development. The Madrid Region as case study
Single-family housing and changing social profiles in former working-class areas: Madrid's south-western suburban ring as case study
The future of single-family detached housing
The dynamics of metropolitan peripheries: Ongoing changes in residential development in the North-Western corridor of the Madrid region
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Stitching the city: From micro-data to macro-views
Opportunities for preparing urban contaminated land for bio-based production
Implementing the compact city: a critical perspective on the transfer of best practice
Compact Cities? Exploring qualities, drivers and strategies for promoting mixed-use urban development