BOOKS: 

Selected publications:

1. D'Acci L.S. (2025). The allometry of housing prices in urban scaling laws and an equalised dwellers’ utility across settlement sizes. Environment and Planning B

2. D'Acci L.S. (Ed.). (2025). Urban Scaling: Allometry in Urban Studies and Spatial Science. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003288312 

3. D'Acci L.S. (2025). Empirical overview of urban scaling. Urban allometry origins, critics and city performance evaluations. 

4. D'Acci L.S. (2025). Planning new cities and Isobenefit Urbanism. in Kälin C.H. (ed.), Global City. Bloomsbury Hart, London.

5. D'Acci L.S., Banister D., White R. W. (2024). Liveable urban forms: planning, self-organisation, and a third way (isobenefit urbanism). Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 11, Article number: 578 . DOI:10.1057/s41599-024-02975-w

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. D'Acci L.S., Voto M. (2023). Morphogenesis of Isobenefit Urbanism: isobenefit-cities simulator. SoftwareX , (23):101408.

11. D'Acci L.S. (2021). Preferring or Needing Cities? (Evolutionary?) Psychology, Utility and Life Satisfaction of Urban Life. City, Culture and Society, 24:100375

12. 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.

13. D'Acci L.S., Voto M. (2021). A cellular automata for e-planning sustainable urban forms. SIMAI 2021.

14. D'Acci L. (2020). Urbanicity mental costs valuation. A review and urban-societal planning consideration. Mind & Society, 19:223–23

15. D'Acci L. (2019). New type of cities for liveable futures. Isobenefit Urbanism morphogenesis. Journal of Environmental Management, 246:128-140

16. D’Acci L. (Ed) (2019), The Mathematics of Urban Morphology. Birkhäuser, (Springer Nature), Cham. With Foreword of Michael Batty.

17. D'Acci L. (2019), On Urban Morphology and Mathematics. In: D’Acci L. (Ed) (2019), The Mathematics of Urban Morphology. Birkhäuser, (Springer Nature), Cham.

18. D'Acci L. (2019). Orientational versus esthetical parametrization in space syntax. Spatial Cognition & Computation, 19(3):172-189. 

19. 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 

20. D'Acci L. (2019). Quality of urban area, distance from city centre, and housing value. Cities, 91:71-92

21. 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.

22. 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

23. D'Acci L. (2013). Hedonic inertia and underground happiness. Social Indicators Research, 113(3):237-1259

24. D'Acci L. (2013). Simulating Future Societies in Isobenefit Cities. Futures, 54:3–18.

25. D'Acci L. (2011). Measuring Well-Being and Progress, Social Indicators Research,104(1):47-65.