Land Planning

MUFFIN 4.0: Farm 4.0 – Mobile manipUlation in agriculture For precision FarmINg

13th Cycle, 2017, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

Agriculture is facing many challenges, such as the growth in the world population, resource shortages, the increasing demand for energy, dietary changes and the increase in competition on world markets. Traditional agricultural methods are not able to sustain all these changes, so technology comes to the rescue. Precision agriculture (PA), or precision farming, is a […]

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M.A.RIO_F.W.P.: Metropolitan Approach for RIO de Janeiro Food Water Policy

13th Cycle, 2017, ASP Cycle, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

The project aims to provide an innovative planning strategy suitable to different degree of governance, on the basis of the analysis of Rio de Janeiro at the metropolitan scale. The selected site of study is the area of Tinguà, in the region of Nuova Iguaçu, which provides to the city of Rio a large part

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Colorado: Community-based policies for natural resource sustainable development

2012, 8th Cycle, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

The project compare problems, approaches and solutions applied to the sustainable planning and management of natural resources in two distinct geographical landscapes: the 5 Terre (marine environment) and the Valle Varaita (alpine region). The final aim is to develop as far as possible innovative policies in order to manage local resources that trying to solve

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WATT: Waterways for Territory Transformation, a methodological approach to urban and landscape design

2013, 9th Cycle, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

EXPO 2015 propose itself as a strong agent of change for the north-western Milanese area, giving a wonderful occasion for the transformation of the territory but, on the other hand, forcing to deal with various issues which characterise the area. Marco Biraghi and Silvia Micheli in “Storia dell’architettura italiana 1985-2015” already expressed potentialities and problems

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CAPs: Cre-A(c)tive-Places

10th Cycle, 2014, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

The definition of the Cre-Active Places (CAPs) project brief is a challenge in itself: to empower creative production in a creative way, by activating an abandoned place outside of large metropolitan context, while simultaneously actuating a communication platform to support the reactivation by establishing a critical mass of participants in the project. From a theoretical

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MO.MO: MOving MOzambique – from freights to passengers


11th Cycle, 2015, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

What does it mean to build a national railway that can switch from freights to passengers in a developing country? Which relations and connections have to be taken into account? Is it possible to enhance the potentiality of a growing nation taking into account both needs of local population and stakeholders’ perspective? How to develop

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