Research interests:

Multi-locality of working. I have investigated the emerging workplaces and related socio-spatial characteristics, within urban regions and cities. I have explored urban spaces and technologies which are integrated into new working practices and arrangements. There is a call for a new understanding of the reasons why people work in multiple places. We defined them multi-local workers. More over, I have focused on how the disappearance of the traditional functionalist divisions between housing, work and services challenges urban and regional planning as well as governance structures.

Sustainability, ecology and biodiversity in strategic and land use planning. I have conducted doctoral and post-doctoral studies on knowledge gaps on Green infrastructures and Ecosystem services within the land use changes as well as the knowledge gap between academics and practitioners. My research interest also focuses on understanding the ‘discourse formations’ between all the actors involved in policy-making processes and planning when dealing with green infrastructure, ecosystem services and urban development.

Planning in the age of Web 2.0 – real and virtual participation. This study focuses on the new ways that social media (such as Facebook and Twitter) and Web 2.0 platforms stimulate full active participation and collaboration in the planning processes.

Architecture and planning education: how to support skills, knowledge and experiences in interdisciplinary and inter-professional context. The research aims to provide an understanding of skills, knowledge and experiences that are required to become proficient in the careers of architects and planners (both academics and professionals). The research also focuses on what kind of curriculum is needed in architecture and planning education.

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Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, Department of Architecture

My current fields of interest are communicative planning, argumentation, epistemology and knowledge management in planning, and multi-locality in working and living. Together with my post-doctoral researcher Mina di Marino and vmWork-team in the School of Science, we are currently working in a project CityWorkLife, which studies working in public and semi-private spaces, such as libraries, coffee shops and public open spaces. In my personal projects, I am studying the role of knowledge and knowledge management in planning, derived from a critique of Polanyi and Nonaka. My new project is to study communication and knowledge in the new City Plan of Helsinki.

Where do you come from?

I have graduated from the University of Turku as Master of Philosophy in 1980 and Licentiate of Philosophy in 1985, my major being theoretical philosophy and my minors practical philosophy, economics, and history and theory of art. I graduated as MSc (architecture) in 1989, and PhD (architecture, urban planning) in 1993 from Tampere University of Technology. I have worked as a planning consultant for the State planning agency in Vaasa, and owner and planner in the privat architecture and engineering office Plan-Ark Ltd in 1989-1993. In 1993-1996 I worked as the Principal Investigator in the project Ecopolis, funded by the Academy of Finland. In 1997-1999 I was the Research Director of the Centre of Urban and Regional Studies in the Helsinki University of Technology, and from 1999 I have worked as professor of urban and regional planning at the Department of Architectrure, first in Helsinki University of Technology (until 2009), and in Aalto University since then.

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Download the presentation here: 2017 POLIMI Greening strategies in compact cities.

Between the most relevant works one finds the conception of the index of urban habitability, the definition of the green urban corridors network of Barcelona, the Mobility and Public Space Plan of Vitoria-Gasteiz and an active collaboration in the conceptual definition of Superblocks urban model at BCNecologia.

On the other hand, it is a habitual referee in seminars and international congresses as well as teacher in diverse university másters (URL – La Salle, UdG, Elisava, + CEU San Pablo).

Vice President of the National Institute of Urban Planning – INU; Member of the Academic Board of the Ph.D. Programme in Urban Planning, Design and Policy UPDP of Politecnico di Milano; director of the Lab_PPTE – Plans, Landscape, Territories and Ecosystem at the Dep. of Architecture and Urban Studies; member of the scientific committee of the Urban Simulation Lab. “Fausto Curti”; scientific Director of the national Land Take Research Centre – CRCS.

He is member of the editorial board of the journal “Urbanistica”.

Many of his research projects and publications focus on planning and urban design.

Main interests include: urban planning and design; urban projects and negotiated planning processes assessment; landscape planning; planning tools; open spaces design; ecosystem analysis and policies for land take limitation He has been consultant of Public Administrations and designer of town and territorial plans. Member of the Scientific Committee for the new Town Plan (PGT) of the City of Milan (2012) and Project leader of the research group for the new Landscape Plan of Regione Lombardia.

Selected publications

* Arcidiacono A., Ronchi S., Salata S., Ghirardelli F., (2017), “Mapping Habitat Quality in the Lombardy Region, Italy”, One Ecosystem (ISSN:2367-8194), vol. 2, pp. 1-8, Pensoft Publishers.

* Arcidiacono A., Ronchi S., Salata S., (2016), Managing Multiple Ecosystem Services for Landscape Conservation: A Green Infrastructure in Lombardy Region, World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering-Architecture-Urban Planning Symposium WMCAUS 2016, Prague, in Drusa M., Yilmaz I., Marschalko M., Coisson E., Segalini A., (Eds), Procedia Engineering, Vol. 161, Special Issue, Elsevier, (ISSN 1877-7058).

* Arcidiacono A., Bottero M., Oppio A., (2016), “A multi-methodological evaluation approach for assessing the impact of neighbourhood quality on public health – Valutare l’impatto della qualità urbana sulla salute pubblica: un approccio multi-metodologico”, Epidemiologia e Prevenzione, n. 40 (3-4), pp. 249 – 256;

* Arcidiacono A., Fior M., Pasqui G., (2016), “Governare il paesaggio. Sfide per il PPR lombardo”, Territorio, n. 77, pp. 15-24, Franco Angeli, Milano;

* Arcidiacono A., Di Simine D., Oliva F., Salata S., Ronchi S. (a cura di), (2015), Nuove sfide per il suolo. Rapporto 2016 CRCS, INU Edizioni, Roma.

* Arcidiacono A., Bruzzese A., Gaeta L., Pogliani L. (2015), Governare i territori della dismissione in Lombardia. Caratteri contesti prospettive, Maggioli Editore, Sant’Arcangelo di Romagna.

* Arcidiacono A., Pogliani L., (2014), “Realismo operativo. Strategie pubbliche per rilanciare le trasformazioni incompiute | Operational Realism. Public strategies to revive unfinished redevelopments”, Urbanistica, n. 152, pp. 50 – 64

* Arcidiacono A., Pogliani L. (2011), Riforma o crisi del governo urbano, Edizioni Et/al;

* Arcidiacono A., Galuzzi P., Pogliani L., Solero E., Vitillo P., Il Piano Urbanistico di Milano (PGT 2012) – The Milan Town Plan (PGT 2012), Wolters Kluwer Italia, Milano.

She works in the research programme Urban Technology – team Climate Resilient Cities that closely works together with professionals from the field. The aim of this team and her work is to support young professionals and urban professionals at local and national governments turning localized climate adaptation into practice.

The aim of “Volare” is to work out a feasibility study, able to comply with general objectives of the Fondazione Cariplo’s tender “Connessioni Ecologiche”. Which relates the enhancement of the environmental heritage through the realization, the development and the strengthening of terrestrial and fluvial ecological corridors. “Volare” will enable the connection of important natural areas in order to maintain the biodiversity.

The realization of this ecological connections will be integrated in the northern part of the Lambro river, which covers the territory in the valley of Milano and includes the areas of the communities of San Donato Milanese, San Giuliano Milanese and Melegnano. The territory where “Volare” should be performed are defined from the PTC (Piano Territoriale di Coordinamento) of Milano as “area with a high relevance for the river terrain” and “area of relevance for the river terrain” congruent downstream the Lambro river and the Vettabbia river.

The plan norm describes the “Volare” territory as areas, which are characterized with the presence of elements with a geomorfological, natural, fluvial or historical interest. The landscape was created by the natural flow of water, the morphology, the nature, the culture and the historical architecture. Landscapes who have a need for appreciation can also be included in the project, the intervention process can up value this zones.

The intention of the feasibility study is to examine the conditions for the realization of ecological connections along the corridors. A special focus is on particular critical parts like the housing areas in Melegnano, where the Lambro passes a highly urbanized area and loses thereby it’s naturalness.

It is necessary to check also the planned infrastructure projects, that could be potentially concurrent with the “Volare” project. Especially the milanese part of the Lambro river gets a big attention regarding the integration of connections in the vast area. Relating to the Lambro there exist numerous ability plans, which were put in a internal system of the project supported by Cariplo with the title “The open spaces, the natural agricultural areas, the Lambro and the metropolitan region around Milano. An Example of activating an ecological network”.

text by Legambiente Lombardia

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From October I 2015 he is Professor (Full Professor, Scientific Disciplinary Sector ICAR/20 Urban and Regional Technique and Planning)) at the Department of Civil, Environmental Engineering and Architecture.

He is presently the Official Professor of the Module of Strategic Planning of the Integrated Course of Strategic Environmental Planning and of the Course of Regional and Urban Planning at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Cagliari, and the Coordinator of the Undergraduate and Magisterial Degree Programs at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Cagliari.

He was the Coordinator of the Panel for the Assessment and Evaluation of Public Investments of the Sardinian Regional Administration in the period 2007-2013.

He was the Coordinator of the Graduate Committee of Environmental and Territorial Engineering of the University of Cagliari in the period 2012-2015.

He is the President of the Faculty Committee of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Cagliari.

Since 1993 to 2012, Professor of Landscape ecology at Genoa University, degree in Landscape Architecture. Since 1988, Professional in Milano as a Landscape architect working in the fields of landscape planning, strategic assessment and landscape architecture.

Member of few scientific and professional associations, actual President of the IALE Italian Region (International Association for Landscape Ecology).

Since 2001 to 2004, Delegate member at the Transport and Urban Development COST Action C10 “Outskirts of European cities”, European Research Area: structural aspects.

Consultant for several Italian regions and provinces on the themes of landscape and environment, among which:

Scientific Responsible of the workgroup “Ecological network and green System” inside the regional general Plan of Liguria.

Scientific responsible for the “River Contracts “ a participated process for the development of the basin strategic plan and the governance the Olona, Seveso and Lambro river basin. (Lombardy Regional Agency for Agricoltural and Forestry Services. ERSAF)

Since 2006 to 2011 and again in 2014, Landscape Committee’s Vice President of the Milano Province, now Metropolitan City.

Among the most important projects we remember the project participated of the “rice fields Park” in Milan, winner of the prize Pays Med in 2010 and the landscape project of the Expo 2015 waterways.

Author of more than 100 publications.

He is a member of Ecosystem Service Partnership (ESP) and a member of
National Research Centre on Land Take – ITALY (CRCS).

Co-editor of Italian National Reports on land take (2010, 2012, 2014
and 2016) of CRCS. He is also co-author of the book “L’insostenibile
consumo di suolo” (Edicom Edizioni, 2013), of the chapter “Policy and
good practices” of the book “Urban Expansion, Land Cover and Soil
Ecosystem Services” edited by Ciro Gardi (Routledge, in press) and
many international publications on land take and its effect on
Ecosystem Services.

Ha partecipato come progettista a numerose esperienze di ricerca applicata all’interno del Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione in convenzione con numerosi enti e comuni tra i quali Seregno, Jesi, San Donato Milanese e la Provincia di Milano. Ha fatto parte della commissione edilizia del Comune di Seregno. Attualmente fa parte della commissione edilizia e del gruppo di valutazione Programmi Integrati di Intervento del comune di San Donato Milanese.

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