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Alessandro Rigolon

Associate Professor

City & Metropolitan Planning

Orcid identifier0000-0001-5197-6394
  • Associate Professor
    City & Metropolitan Planning

BIO

Alessandro Rigolon is an Associate Professor and the MCMP Program Coordinator in the Department of City and Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah. His research focuses on environmental justice issues related to urban green space and their impacts on health equity. His current work includes four main areas: policy determinants of (in)equity in green space provision, drivers and resistance to gentrification fostered by new parks (i.e., “green gentrification”), the role of green space in equitable climate adaptation, and the public health impacts of urban green space on marginalized communities.

INSTITUTIONAL APPOINTMENTS

  • Associate Professor
    City & Metropolitan Planning1 Jul 2023 - present

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Assistant Professor
    University of Utah, City & Metropolitan Planning1 Jul 2019 - 30 Jun 2023

DEGREES

  • Ph.D. in Design and Planning
    University of Colorado Denver, Denver, United States2011 - 2015
  • Ph.D. in Architecture
    University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy2009 - 2012
  • B.Arch. and M.Arch. in Architecture and Urban Design
    University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy2001 - 2007

LANGUAGES

  • Italian
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Spanish; Castilian
    Can read, speak and understand
  • French
    Can read, write, speak and understand
  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review

FIELDS OF RESEARCH