Mihai Racu, Ph.D.

Research Fellow

Dr. Mihai Racu is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca and Vice-president at the Romanian Architects’ Union Cluj Chapter. He is an architect and urban planner concerned with the sustainable development of the built environment. Since 2012 he’s been teaching at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He presented his PhD thesis concerning the coherence of recent Romanian urban developments analysed using digital methods in 2015. He published several articles that look at the particularities of urban sprawl in local contexts.