{"id":432,"name":"Laura P. Spinadel","url":"","description":"Laura P. Spinadel is an architect and urban strategist with more than 40 years of international experience in integrated sustainable urban development, compact growth models, state-led masterplanning and multi-level governance across Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa, with project experience in over 30 countries. She graduated with a Gold Medal from the University of Buenos Aires (1982) and holds Master degrees from the University of Applied Arts Vienna (1986) and the Ministerio de Educaci\u00f3n y Ciencia, Madrid (1993).\r\nShe founded BUSarchitektur ZT GmbH in 1986 and BOA office for advanced randomness in 2004. Compact City Vienna (1993\u20132001), a hybrid living-working pilot combining density and PPP land development, received the Otto Wagner Urban Design Award in 1998. As masterplanner of Campus WU Vienna (2007\u20132015), a 35-hectare university district delivered through leasehold structures and state-led governance, she received the 1st Prize for the Master Plan (2008), the Ernst A. Plischke Award and the Golden Ring of Honour of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (2014), the first awarded to a woman, the Architecture Award of the City of Vienna and the International CICA Urban Planning Award (2015). Further projects include STAR 22 Vienna, Koblevo Coastal Vision in Ukraine, ITMO High Park in Russia, AWS India Campus Cities and Campus L\u00fcbeck.\r\nShe is the creator of URBAN MENUS, a participatory 3D impact-assessment and decision-support methodology developed over fifteen years, which compares development scenarios through qualitative and quantitative indicators covering ecology, urbanity, density, profitability and circularity. It was recognised as Best Practice by the German Federal Ministry of Housing in 2023 and is applied to accelerate resilience and promote urbanity in multi-actor planning processes.\r\nShe is a URBACT Validated Lead Expert (2023) and Senior External Expert at the European Court of Auditors (2023\u20132027) for environment, urban and territorial development, digitisation and cohesion policy. She was Lead Consultant for the THRIVE Newcastle West Integrated Urban Strategy in Ireland (1st Prize, 2024) and is Lead Expert of the TECXPORT Circularity Optimizer China programme (2024\u20132027), an Austria\u2013China bilateral cooperation. She leads the ERASMUS+ partnerships Making Cities Fit for the Green Deal and Dialogue with a Resilient Future.\r\nShe has been guest professor in Colombia, Italy, Spain, India, Argentina, Mexico and Brazil, and keynote speaker at UN Habitat, IFoU, APA and GIZ. She edited Campus WU: A Holistic History (2013) and publishes on participatory decision-making in urban planning. She received the Minerva Innovation Award as one of the top three female entrepreneurs (2021) and the Outstanding Artist Award for Experimental Trends in Architecture (1989). She works in Spanish, German and English.","link":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/author\/lauraspinadel\/","slug":"lauraspinadel","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MM_Spinadel-24x24.jpg","48":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MM_Spinadel-48x48.jpg","96":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MM_Spinadel-96x96.jpg"},"meta":[],"simple_local_avatar":{"media_id":61703,"full":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MM_Spinadel.jpg","blog_id":1,"192":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MM_Spinadel-192x192.jpg","96":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MM_Spinadel-96x96.jpg","24":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MM_Spinadel-24x24.jpg","48":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MM_Spinadel-48x48.jpg","250":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MM_Spinadel-250x250.jpg","125":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MM_Spinadel-125x125.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}