Smart cities

CitySpaces: A virtual/real platform for exploring, learning about and interacting with the layered histories of city spaces

2010, 6th Cycle, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

The CitySpaces project has the objective of conceiving a multichannel digital media approach for exploring, learning about and interacting with the layered histories of city spaces. A CitySpaces is a virtual-real system for exploring cities overlaid with their rich geo-history, including the diverse histories of people, architecture and the urban environment, as well as the […]

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E-SCAPE: New tools and new opportunities for the localization of Expo 2015 general interest services along the Canale Cavour, a backbone of the Milan–Turin urban region

2011, 7th Cycle, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

The recent completion of the high speed railway in the north west of Italy is producing significant changes in the entire territorial system, establishing a difference between the nodes of Milan and Turin, positively connected to the “long” (and fast) networks of mobility, and the intermediate places that suffer from disadvantages due to their location

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TSC4 MiTo: The Social Computer for Milano and Torino

2011, 7th Cycle, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

How long does it take to locate 10 red weather balloons in 10 secret locations in the continental United States? 8 hours and 52 minutes, harnessing the Internet and social networks! This is the incredible result of the DARPA Network Challenge that was launched on December 2009. The MIT team that won the challenge designed

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Re-ImPlant: Re-use Industrial Plants

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

Today, the occurring shift inside an economic model in crisis, a digitalized production process and the necessity of a re-organized energy model underline the importance of industrial production as a key factor of innovation inside the development of our city. A good city has also industry inside, the goal of the project is to investigate

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PIA_A: Playing Architecture, a prototype of a smart public building

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

The challenging goal of the project is designing infrastructures to provide fundamental services in developing countries, in complex situations such as slums or bidonvilles, inserting buildings able to produce energy where it is needed without transportation. The practical idea is to implement several small, prefabricated clinics to have a fast, cheap and sustainable solution but

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FRUC: Future of Retailing in Urban Cities

10th Cycle, 2014, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Torino, Projects in the spotlight, Research Topics, University, Year

Small urban retailers, in European cities, are facing a decrease in attractiveness because of the increase number of shopping malls, big chain shops and internet retailers. This led to the closure of a relevant number of stores and to the consequent reduction of people’s traffic in cities’ street. These closures are negatively affecting the vivacity

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ACED-IoT : Safe Cities through Cloud and the Internet of Things

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

The ongoing growth of urban population coupled with the frequency of extreme weather phenomena all over the world is causing an increase in the exposure of people and goods to natural hazards. This implies a general rise of the risk level. The culture of risk prevention and management is increasingly widespread – also due to

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Energy Park: Smart Grid and Mobility for an Energy Park

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

In the age of urbanization, mountain areas are facing a continuous depopulation and a decrease in socio-economic standards, which entails a disharmony development leading to a substantial marginalization of these territories. Energy park project intends to emphasize the strength points of the alpine areas, exploiting the use of new technologies and innovation in order to

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TEC: Turin Energy Centre

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

The Turin Energy Centre multidisciplinary project is a work aimed at designing the functions and assessing the energy performance of a 20.000 m2 under-construction building. The paradox of having to fill an “about-to-be-completed” empty box embodies both an opportunity and a challenge: on one hand, the need to outline innovative functions is a great chance

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SMART.MAP: Smart Sensitive City. New Mapping for XXI century citizens

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

Information technologies offer innovative ways to deal with urban space. EXPO 2015, as occasion to promote the local and regional area values, requires an original idea of mapping able to record, analyze and represent dynamically the complexity and heterogeneity of the hosting territory. The project aims to produce innovative senseable images of the city enhancing

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