Ilaria Salvadori is an urban designer with the City Design Group at the San Francisco Planning Department. She currently manages the Pavement to Parks program, a successful public space initiative aimed at reclaiming underutilized spaces in the city and turning them into vibrant catalyst places for San Francisco neighborhoods.
While at the San Francisco Planning Department Ilaria has helped create the Mission Community Market, the first open air market in the Mission District and has managed the Mission District Streetscape Plan, the Cesar Chavez East Community Design plan and the Mission Public Life Plan, three community-based projects that rethink streets as multi-modal, inclusive spaces for people.Ilaria has previously worked at several urban design firms in the San Francisco Bay Area and at Project for Public Spaces, a public space advocacy organization in New York City.