Rositsa T. Ilieva

Rositsa T. Ilieva is an architect and urban planner with an expertise in policies, planning, and design for sustainable cities and urban food systems. She is also an adjunct faculty member at the Parsons School of Design and the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy. She holds BS and MS degrees in architecture and a PhD in spatial planning and urban development from the Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy. She has presented her research at numerous international research conferences and is author of “Urban Food Planning: Seeds of Transition in the Global North” (Routledge, 2016). As a member of USL, Rositsa is conducting geospatial research on current and potential access and use of urban green infrastructure in New York City and exploring how this knowledge can inform the modeling of future climate-related risks and vulnerabilities.