Pedro Costa is an Associate a Professor at the Department of Political Economy at ISCTE and a Researcher at DINAMIA’CET-iscte (Research Centreer on for Socioeconomic Change and Territory), where he coordinates the “Cities and Territories” research group. Economist, PhD in Urban and Regional Planning, he works primarily in the areas of territorial development, planning, and cultural economics. His research activity has been particularly centered particularly on the study of the relations between cultural activities, creative dynamics and sustainable territorial development.