Antonia Cornaro

Antonia Cornaro, MA Urban Planning (1996), studied at New York University and then gained
valuable experience working for the City of New York’s Planning Department (DCP) in their
Transportation Division on bicycle and pedestrian schemes. Antonia has 25+ years of working
experience as an urban and transport planner from the public and private sector in New York City,
London, Vienna, and Zurich, having worked for the NYC Department of City Planning, Parsons
Brinckerhoff (PB now WSP), the Austrian Institute of Regional Planning (ÖIR), and the Zurich based
multi-disciplinary engineering consulting firm EBP. Since 2010, Antonia has been working as an
expert on underground space for Amberg Engineering, an internationally active Swiss firm
specializing in underground infrastructure design and management, where she focuses on Urban
Underground Space with the aim to increase mobility, livability, and resilience of urban areas.

This is also central to her work as Co-Chair of ITACUS (the International Tunnel and Underground
Space Association’s Committee on Underground Space. Antonia is passionate about cities, global and
sustainable development, and has presented and published extensively on this subject, often jointly
with Han Admiraal. Together with Han, she authored the book “Underground spaces unveiled:
planning and creating the cities of the future” (more info: www.thinkdeep.net) which was published in
2018 and has received the ISOCARP Gerd Albers award for the best book. She also teaches part-time
at the Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich. The course is a Semester lecture Planning of
Underground Space and is taught to Master students in architecture, spatial development and civil
engineering.