Donatella Calabi, former professor at IUAV in Venice, has written about the history of Venice and other European cities, as well as urban planning between the 19th and 20th centuries.
She has been a visiting professor at many foreign universities, and her books have been translated and published in 10 languages.

For wetlands, she wrote the afterword to the book The Imagined Life of Shimon Ginzburg by Patricia Farazzi and Jean Baumgarten.