teaching & invited talks
teaching & invited talks
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COURSES 2025-26: ~ ? students
COURSES 2025-26: ~ ? students
City, Territory, Landscape 30 hours in a Msc at Politecnico di Torino, ? students
• Why value small towns? Urban Scaling and socio-psychological analysis of urbanity: from village to megacity.
• How to decentralize? Polycentric Urban Region and Punctiform City.
• New forms of living: new metropolitan social morphology; new functional urban forms; pseudo-countryside; punctiform city.
• Evaluation of strategies and investments: multicriteria analysis, economic-financial indicators.
Evaluation 80 hours in a BSc at Politecnico di Torino, ? students
my grades:
Evaluations:
average: 25/30
mode: 27/30
my grades:
Investment Analysis:
average: 20/30
mode: 25/30
my grades:
Project Evaluation:
average: 24/30
mode: 26/30
COURSES 2022-23: 202 students
COURSES 2022-23: 202 students
In English
Urban Allometries: villages, towns, cities, megacities 15 hours PhD course at Politecnico di Torino (DIST), 16 students
Sustainable Investments 40 hours in a Msc at Politecnico di Torino (DIATI), 44 students
Evaluation 60 hours in a BSc at Politecnico di Torino (DAD), 120 students
Project Evaluation 20 hours in a Msc at Politecnico di Torino (DAD), 22 students
my grades:
Evaluations:
average: 23/30
mode: 27/30
my grades:
Investment Analysis:
average: 24/30
mode: 27/30
my grades:
Project Evaluation:
average: 26/30
mode: 27/30
COURSES 2021-22: 195 students
COURSES 2021-22: 195 students
In English
Sustainable Urban Forms 15 hours PhD course at Politecnico di Torino (DIST), 10 students
Sustainable Investments 40 hours in a Msc at Politecnico di Torino (DIATI), 15 students
Evaluation 60 hours in a BSc at Politecnico di Torino (DAD), 125 students
Project Evaluation 20 hours in a Msc at Politecnico di Torino (DAD), 38 students
Mathematics of Urban Morphology 10 hours PhD course at Politecnico di Torino (DISMA) Course of Excellence. With Michael Batty and Roger W. White, 7 students
COURSES 2020-21: 108 students
COURSES 2020-21: 108 students
In English
Sustainable Urban Forms 15 hours PhD course at Politecnico of Torino (19 students)
Evaluation 80 hours in a BSc at Politecnico di Torino (89 students)
COURSES 2019/2020: 259 students
COURSES 2019/2020: 259 students
In English
Psychology of urban life 10 hours PhD course at Politecnico di Torino, 2019 (20 students)
Nature and Nurture of human behavior PhD course at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, 2020 (around 15 students)
Sustainable Urban Forms 15 hours PhD course at Politecnico of Torino since 2018, and 10 hours in a MSc at Erasmus University Rotterdam, from 2015 to 2020 (14 students)
Urban Theory - 5 hours in a MSc at Erasmus University Rotterdam from 2015 to 2020 (around 110 students)
Decision Making for Sustainable Urban Development 20 hours in a 60 hours course in a MSc at Politecnico di Torino, 2019 (38 students)
Evaluations 80 hours in a BSc at Politecnico di Torino, since 2018 (62 students)
In Italian
Comprendere l'ambiente e il clima - Talenti 6 hours of Urban Morphology in a course for talented students - with highest grades - at Politecnico di Torino, since 2019: Understanding environment (33 students)
INVITED speaker
INVITED speaker
Calabria’s historical cities reclaiming: a prioritizing model
13-14/6/2007, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria
Megacities and Urban Development
2011, Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Cities as Isobenefit Landscapes
Feb 2013, University of Reading
Isobenefit Lines, Isobenefit Urbanism,
Future Urban Growth Lab: ISOBENEFIT URBANISM
March 2013, June 2017, July 2018, July 2020
University College London
Isobenefit Urbanism
June 2014, University of Surrey
https://cress.soc.surrey.ac.uk/web/events/isobenefit-urbanism
A Multidisciplinary study of Urban Forms
Psychological layers of urban life
Nov 2014, Apr 2021 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
http://www.ufrgs.br/ufrgs/noticias/abordagem-holistica-as-cidades-e-tema-de-evento-no-propur& zoom
Real Estate Value & Isobenefit Lines
4 June 2014, Heriot-Watt University
Urban forms for low carbon cities
June, Sep-Oct 2015 University of Cambridge
Urban Isobenefit Lines
9/11/2015 ETH zurich
https://ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/baug/ivt/ivt-dam/events/2015/20151109-dacchi-isobenefit-lines.pdf
https://archiv.ivt.ethz.ch/20151109-dacchi-isobenefit-lines.pdf
Future Cities
June 2015, Trinity College Dublin
https://www.scss.tcd.ie/seminars/seminars/D%27Acci_12-June-15.pdf
Isotropic Cities
November 2015, University of Geneva
Human Habitat and Green Urbanisation
January 2015, Vienna Technology University
Isobenefit Urbanism
2015, University of Birmingham
Which Human Habitats?
Urban Environmental Land Use Law for Sustainable Settlements: a proposal
Human Geography
Spring 2016, 9 Dec 2020, Sept 2021, Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bournemouth University
[2021 zoom]
Sustainable Urban Forms
January 2016, Utrecht University
Sustainable Urban Forms
February 2016, TUDelft
Future urban forms?
Future cities
City life, mental well-being, and utility functions
Anthropological discussions on cities
Urban Planning for Happy and Healthy Lives
4/4/2019, 29/7/2019, 12/2/2020, 20/2/2020, 9/2/2021, 7/2/2022
University of Portsmouth
https://portsmoutharchitecture.tumblr.com/post/183890247170/this-weeks-pass-lecture-by-luca-dacci [2022 zoom]
Future cities? A morphogenetic code idea: Isobenefit Urbanism
9/4/2020 The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Department of Geography and Resource Management)
https://www.grm.cuhk.edu.hk/cab/Seminar20200409.pdf
[zoom]
New urban morphogenesis
22/4/2020 University of São Paulo (Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism) (FAU - USP)
XIII Seminar Critical Thoughts and Contemporary Cities
[google meet]
A visionary urban future
7 May 2020 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) Floriaonopolis
[zoom]
Urban forms and ‘mathematics’ for future cities
22 December 2021, Christmas special Environmental Morphologies and Ambient Intelligence (EMAI) seminar, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
[zoom]
Isobenefit Urbanism
10 May 2023, The Martine Centre Research Seminars, University of Cambridge https://www.arct.cam.ac.uk/file/httpscdnevbuccomimages5106474797913325712431original2jpeg
[in presence and zoom]
Isobenefit Urbanism
19 July 2023, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam https://www.makingcitieswork.net/webinars
co-speakers: Tommaso Gabrieli and Frank Van Oort
[online]
Isobenefit Urbanism
9 April 2024, Oxford Brookes University
Toward liveable urban forms: Isobenefit Urbanism
17 April 2024, University of Oxford
https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/982c48f7-be8f-4c2a-88d6-c6f005f42e5d/
co-speakers: David Banister and Roger W.White
Urban design symposium: Isobenefit Urbanism
24 April 2024, University of Southampton
Self-organized complexity in regional house prices distribution across cities
1 May 2024, University of Reading
Isobenefit Urbanism
20 Nov 2024, ETH Zurich
https://istp.ethz.ch/events/colloquia.html
Isobenefit Urbanism
30 Apr 2025, MIT Boston
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