Rossitti Marco

After earning a degree in Building Engineering–Architecture from the University of Naples Federico II, he obtained a PhD in Preservation of the Architectural Heritage from Politecnico di Milano. His doctoral research focused on defining and assessing strategies to enhance architectural heritage in inner areas. After the PhD, he conducted postdoctoral research on the evaluation of negotiated programming tools in the Lombardy Region. In parallel, he served as a consultant on the research project “SI.VALUTA”, which examined the evaluation of cohesion policy investments in the cultural sector. Since 2023, he has been an Assistant Professor in Appraisal and Valuation at the ABC Department. In 2025, he was a visiting researcher at the MIT Center for Real Estate, where he carried out research on the economic impacts of flood risk in Italy, analyzed through the real estate market.

Career

2023 – PhD cum laude in Preservation of the Architectural Heritage, Politecnico di Milano.

2019 – Bachelor's & Master’s Degree in Building Engineering–Architecture, summa cum laude and with special mention by the examination committee, University of Naples Federico II.

Research

Cultural heritage valuation.

Evaluation methods for cultural heritage conservation and enhancement.

Public–private partnerships in cultural heritage projects.

Urban regeneration and real estate markets.

Climate risk and real estate markets.

Selected Publications

Casprini, D., Oppio, A., Di Tommaso, A., Datola, G., Dell’Ovo, M., Torrieri, F., & Rossitti, M. (2026). The impact of urban acupuncture: Adopting a social innovation lens to assess the value of localized urban intervention. Cities, 169, 106502. DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106502.

Torrieri, F., Braga, A., Rossitti, M., & Boniotti, C. (2026). Public-Private Partnerships for cultural heritage valorization: from Value for Money to Value for Society. Valori e Valutazioni, 39, 69-84. DOI: 10.48264/VVSIEV-20263905

Rossitti, M., Nijkamp, P., & Torrieri, F. (2025). A community-based assessment of the intrinsic value of architectural heritage: an application to Guardia Sanframondi. Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development. DOI: 10.1108/JCHMSD-09-2024-0230.

Torrieri, F., Crisopulli, A., & Rossitti, M. (2025). Assessing the Feasibility of PPPs for Cultural Heritage Enhancement in UNESCO Sites: The Case of Matera (Italy). Land, 14(4), 898. DOI: 10.3390/land14040898.

Rossitti, M., Oteri, A.M., & Torrieri, F. (2025). The social value of built heritage: an interdisciplinary discourse. Built Heritage, 9, 5. DOI: 10.1186/s43238-025-00173-4.

Rossitti, M., Oppio, A., Torrieri, F., & Dell’Ovo, M. (2023). Tactical Urbanism Interventions for the Urban Environment: Which Economic Impacts? Land, 12(7), 1457. DOI: 10.3390/land12071457.

Rossitti, M., Torrieri, F. (2022). The THEMA tool to support heritage-based development strategies for marginal areas: Evidence from an Italian inner area in Campania Region. Region, 9(2), 109-129. DOI: 10.18335/region.v9i2.394.

Torrieri, F., Oppio, A., & Rossitti, M. (2022). Damage assessment for architectural heritage: the Cavallerizza Reale complex in Turin. Valori e Valutazioni, 30, 71-83. DOI: 10.48264/ vvsiev-20223005.

Rossitti, M., Dell’Ovo, M., Oppio, A., & Torrieri, F. (2021). The Italian National Strategy for Inner Areas (SNAI): A Critical Analysis of the Indicator Grid. Sustainability, 13(12), 6927. DOI: 10.3390/su13126927.

Stanganelli, M., Torrieri, F., Gerundo, C., & Rossitti, M. (2020). An integrated strategic-performative planning methodology towards enhancing the sustainable decisional regeneration of fragile territories. Sustainable Cities and Society, 53, 101920. DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2019.101920.

Grants, awards and Honours

2024 - Grant: “Rocca Fellowship 2024” for Early-Career Researchers for a visiting period at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Total funding: €15,000. Project title: Assessing the Economic Impacts of Flood Risk in Italy: Evidence from the Real Estate Market.Host professor: Siqi Zheng, Champion Professor of Urban and Real Estate Sustainability (DUSP), Faculty Director of the MIT Center for Real Estate, and Director of the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab.

2024 Best Paper Award: Edoardo Mollica Award for the Best Paper in the Cultural Heritage section at the international symposium NMP 2024 – Networks, Markets, People, for the paper “Assessing the Market Value of Heritage Properties: Theoretical and Methodological Issues” (2024).

2024 - Best PhD Thesis Award: Third Prize for the PhD dissertation “A Strategic Social-Value-Based Approach to Support Built Heritage Conservation in Inner Areas: The Case of Tammaro–Titerno”, awarded within the "Valutare Premia" initiative promoted by the Lombardy Region.

2022 - Best Paper Award: Edoardo Mollica Award for the Best Paper in the Heritage and Identity section at the 5th International Symposium “New Metropolitan Perspectives 2022”, for the paper “Action Research for the Conservation of Scattered Architectural Heritage in Inner Areas: Towards a Methodological Framework”.

2021 – Best Paper Award: Best Paper Award in the Landscape and Climate Change session at the Uniscape En-Route International Seminar – Landscape at Risk, for the paper “Spatial Cost–Benefit Analysis in Flood Risk Management: Evidence from a Case Study in Italy”.

Community Service

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Department ABC for the term 2025-2028 as the representative of the Scientific-Disciplinary Group “08/CEAR-03 Infrastructure and transport engineering, real estate appraisal and project evaluation”.

Member of the Innovation Committee of the Joint Research Partnership (JRP) “Costruzioni. Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Operation” (Fondazione Politecnico di Milano - Department ABC).