publications
BOOKS:
URBAN LIVING
Perspectives from Geographical Psychology, Economic Geography, (Onto)Genetics, Socio-Anthropology, and Urban Planning reflections
L.S. D'Acci
Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy book series
Expected publication: 2024-5
sent to production: 2024
2019
BOOK's Endorsements/Reviews
URBAN SCALING (in production):
Richard Florida: … Must reading for all interested in this growing crucial field.
Roger W. White: …an essential resource for anyone interested in this increasingly important subject.
David Banister: …an authoritative contribution to our understanding of cities.
Christopher D.F. Rogers: …a profound contribution to the literature and a foundation on which all urban professionals can build.
THE MATHEMATICS OF URBAN MORPHOLOGY (2019):
Michael Batty: ...This book provides a useful perspective on the state of the art... There is much to absorb in the pages that follow... Much food for thought. Read on, digest, enjoy.
[from the foreword]
Meta Berghauser Pont: D’Acci has with this book provided a useful overview... fills an apparent gap in the literature... It is to be hoped that this can be the start of a long series of books and papers where this ‘new’ direction in urban morphology can flourish... something that becomes apparent when reading this book is the richness that the methods provide to conduct serious comparative research
[Berghauser Pont, M. (2019). Book review "The mathematics of urban morphology". Urban Morphology, 23(2):182-183]
Cui Liu: ... Luca D'Acci provides a comprehensive review of the latest research... provide a new opportunity to conceive cities between hard and soft sciences, between the scientific and humanistic views of world. As Luca D’Acci explains in the introduction, ‘this new science based on complexity paradigms, is a science that induces art, identified as personal uniqueness’. In that sense, this book is a valuable attempt to promote human-based dialogue between scholars from multiple disciplines and to study urban forms mathematically on a common ground.
[Cui Liu (2020). "Book review: The Mathematics of Urban Morphology," Urban Studies, 57(16):3421-3423]
Yilun Shang: This monograph gives a comprehensive and contemporary overview of many recent advances...
ARTICLES:
at 2023:
Documents in top citation percentiles
(Percent of documents in the top 25% most cited documents worldwide)
86%
Documents in top 25% journals by CiteScore percentile
(Percent of documents in the top 25% journals by CiteScore)
90%
Coauthors
David Banister (University of Oxford)
Stephen Marshall (University College London)
Chris Rogers (University of Birmingham)
Frank van Oort (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam)
Roger White (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Selected publications:
D'Acci L.S. (2024-2025). Planning new cities via Isobenefit Urbanism. in Kälin C.H. (ed.), Global City. Bloomsbury Hart, London. (coming soon).
D'Acci L.S., Banister D., White R. W. (2024). Liveable urban forms: planning, self-organisation, and a third way (isobenefit urbanism). Nature - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 11, Article number: 578 . DOI:10.1057/s41599-024-02975-w
Marshall S., Gabrieli T., Simons G., Marin V. D'Acci L. (2024) Simulating future urban growth and accessibility via cellular automata and QGIS. World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research. Under review.
D'Acci L.S. (2023). Is housing price distribution across cities, scale invariant? Fractal distribution of settlements’ house prices as signature of self-organized complexity. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 174:113766.
Heeseo Rain Kwon, Tommaso Gabrieli, Luca S. D'Acci and Stephen Marshall (2023). A morphological cellular automata-agent based model prototype for simulating future isobenefit urbanism growth. UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference 2023, University of Galsgow.
D'Acci L.S., Banister D. (2023). This is your guide to Isobenefit Urbanism — the thinking behind the cities of the future. World Economic Forum.
D'Acci L.S., Voto M. (2023). Morphogenesis of Isobenefit Urbanism: isobenefit-cities simulator. SoftwareX , online 20 May 2023, 101408
D'Acci L.S. (2021). Preferring or Needing Cities? (Evolutionary?) Psychology, Utility and Life Satisfaction of Urban Life. City, Culture and Society, 24:100375
D'Acci L.S., Marshall S., van Oort F., Rogers C.D.F., Gabrieli T., Voto M. (2021). Planning, environmental, economic perspectives of urban isobenefit morphogenesis. Ecocity world summit 2021.
D'Acci L.S., Voto M. (2021). A cellular automata for e-planning sustainable urban forms. SIMAI 2021.
D'Acci L. (2020). Urbanicity mental costs valuation. A review and urban-societal planning consideration. Mind & Society, 19:223–23
D'Acci L. (2019). New type of cities for liveable futures. Isobenefit Urbanism morphogenesis. Journal of Environmental Management, 246:128-140
D’Acci L. (Ed) (2019), The Mathematics of Urban Morphology. Birkhäuser, (Springer Nature), Cham. With Foreword of Michael Batty.
D'Acci L. (2019), On Urban Morphology and Mathematics. In: D’Acci L. (Ed) (2019), The Mathematics of Urban Morphology. Birkhäuser, (Springer Nature), Cham.
D'Acci L. (2019). Orientational versus esthetical parametrization in space syntax. Spatial Cognition & Computation, 19(3):172-189.
D’Acci L. (2019). Aesthetical cognitive perceptions of urban street form. Pedestrian preferences toward straight or curvy route shapes. Journal of Urban Design, 24(6):896-912
D'Acci L. (2019). Quality of urban area, distance from city centre, and housing value. Cities, 91:71-92
D'Acci L. (2015). Mathematize urbes by humanizing them. Cities as Isobenefit Landscapes: Psycho-Economical distances and Personal Isobenefit Lines. Landscape and Urban Planning, 139:63-81.
D'Acci L. (2014). Monetary, Subjective and Quantitative Approaches to Assess Urban Quality of Life and Pleasantness in Cities. Social Indicators Research, 115(2):531-559
D'Acci, L. (2014). Urban DNA for cities evolutions. Computers and Society arXiv:1408.2874
D'Acci L. (2013). Hedonic inertia and underground happiness. Social Indicators Research, 113(3):237-1259
D'Acci L. (2013). Simulating Future Societies in Isobenefit Cities. Futures, 54:3–18.
D'Acci L. (2011). Measuring Well-Being and Progress, Social Indicators Research,104(1):47-65.
in progress:
D'Acci L.S. (2022). Urban Allometries of House Prices. Under review.
D'Acci L.S. (2024). Urban Living: Evolutionary perspectives. Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy book series. Accepted BOOK
D'Acci L.S. (Ed) (2023). Urban Scaling: Allometry in Urban Studies and Spatial Science. Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy book series. BOOK. sent to production
D'Acci L.S. (2022). Urban form topological street pattern and housing value. Done but no sent yet.
D'Acci L.S. (2023) Isobenefit Urbanism: toward a new urban planning paradigm for enhanced urban experiences In progress
D’Acci L.S., Terna P. Citizens as Urban Planners. A Multi-Agent Based model of household location choice. In standby
D'Acci L.S. (et al?). Urban Planning and Design. in: Climate Change and Cities. Cambridge Elements, Cambridge University Press . invited chapter. In standby
D'Acci L.S., Pojani D. Emergence of Space and Place centralities in spontaneous urban settlements. In standby