Luca D'Acci

• human settlements, well-being and progress

Settori ERC

SDG

• Componente del Comitato Scientifico - Laboratório de Ecologia Urbana, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brasile (2022-)
• Fellow (riconoscimento scientifico) - Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (The Erasmus Happiness Economics Research Organisation (EHERO)), Paesi Bassi (2022-)
  Research Fellow
• Componente del Comitato Scientifico - Sistemas Configuracionais Urbanos (SCU), Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, Brasile (2019-)
• Altra carica sociale - Erasmus University Rotterdam, Paesi Bassi (2018-2023)
• Fellow (riconoscimento scientifico) - Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Paesi Bassi (2017-2018)
  Ass Professor
• Fellow (riconoscimento scientifico) - University of Portsmouth (Cluster for Sustainable Cities), Regno Unito (2017-2020)
• Fellow (riconoscimento scientifico) - University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Urban Morphology Research Group,, Regno Unito (2016-2021)
• Fellow (riconoscimento scientifico) - Birmingham University, College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Regno Unito (2016-)
  Honorary Research Fellow
• Componente del Comitato Scientifico - Spatial Intelligence Unit (SPIN Unit), Estonia (2013-)
• Componente del Comitato Scientifico - International Society of Biourbanism, Italia (2013-)

• PLOS Mental Health (2024-), Membro del Comitato Editoriale
• PLOS ONE (2023-), Membro del Comitato Editoriale
• Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (2023-), Membro del Comitato Editoriale
• URBAN PLANNING (2016-2020), Direttore di rivista, collana editoriale, enciclopedia
• Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research, Springer (2013-2015), Direttore di rivista, collana editoriale, enciclopedia

• Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam - Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (2015-2017), Head of Urban Environment, Sustainability and Climate Change, at Erasmus University Rotterdam (IHS)

• Challenges in Data Science: a Complex Systems Perspective (16/11/2023-18/11/2023), Program commitee (membro del comitato scientifico)
• Biennale di Venezia - Padiglione Italia (30/6/2021-31/8/2021), Steering commitee

• Visiting Researcher, presso Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich (1/11/2015-30/11/2015)
• Visiting Researcher, presso University of Cambridge (24/9/2015-9/10/2015)
• Visiting Researcher, presso University of Oxford (17/8/2015-21/8/2015)
• Ricercatore, presso Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (1/2/2015-5/12/2017)
• Ricercatore, presso University of Strathclyde (17/8/2012-16/2/2013)
• Ricercatore, presso State University of Campinas (1/9/2010-30/6/2011)

• Future Urban Growth Lab (2019-). Partecipazione
• Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (EHERO) (2022-2024). Partecipazione
• University of Birmingham (College of Engineering and Physical Sciences) (2016-). Partecipazione
• LEUr Urban Ecology Lab (2022-). Partecipazione
• URban Evolution Morphology (2024-). Coordinamento

• URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2023/2024 (39. ciclo)
  Politecnico di TORINO
• URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2022/2023 (38. ciclo)
  Politecnico di TORINO
• URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2021/2022 (37. ciclo)
  Politecnico di TORINO
• URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2020/2021 (36. ciclo)
  Politecnico di TORINO

• Collegio di Architettura e Design. Componente
• Collegio di Ingegneria Civile ed Edile. Componente

Dottorato di ricerca

• Urban Allometries: Villages, Cities, Megacities. A.A. 2022/23, URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Titolare del corso
• Sustainable urban forms: a quantitative and qualitative perspective. A.A. 2021/22, URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Titolare del corso
• Mathematics of urban morphology (didattica di eccellenza). A.A. 2021/22, MATEMATICA PURA E APPLICATA. Titolare del corso
• Sustainable urban forms: a quantitative and qualitative perspective. A.A. 2020/21, URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Titolare del corso
• Mathematics of urban morphology (didattica di eccellenza). A.A. 2020/21, MATEMATICA PURA E APPLICATA. Titolare del corso
• Sustainable urban forms: a quantitative and qualitative perspective. A.A. 2019/20, URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Titolare del corso
• Psycology of urban life. A.A. 2019/20, URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Titolare del corso

Corso di laurea magistrale

• Investments analysis. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA EDILE. Titolare del corso
• Economic evaluation of projects. A.A. 2024/25, ARCHITETTURA COSTRUZIONE CITTA'. Titolare del corso
• Investments analysis. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA EDILE. Titolare del corso
• Economic evaluation of projects. A.A. 2023/24, ARCHITETTURA COSTRUZIONE CITTA'. Titolare del corso
• Investments analysis. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA EDILE. Titolare del corso
• Economic evaluation of projects. A.A. 2022/23, ARCHITETTURA COSTRUZIONE CITTA'. Titolare del corso
• Investments analysis. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA EDILE. Titolare del corso
• Economic evaluation of projects. A.A. 2021/22, ARCHITETTURA COSTRUZIONE CITTA'. Titolare del corso

Corso di laurea di 1° livello

• Real Estate evaluation. A.A. 2024/25, ARCHITETTURA (ARCHITECTURE). Titolare del corso
• Real Estate evaluation. A.A. 2023/24, ARCHITETTURA (ARCHITECTURE). Titolare del corso
• Real Estate evaluation. A.A. 2022/23, ARCHITETTURA (ARCHITECTURE). Titolare del corso
• Real Estate evaluation. A.A. 2021/22, ARCHITETTURA (ARCHITECTURE). Titolare del corso
• Real Estate evaluation. A.A. 2020/21, ARCHITETTURA (ARCHITECTURE). Titolare del corso
• Comprendere l'ambiente e il clima - Talenti. A.A. 2019/20, ARCHITETTURA. Collaboratore del corso
• Real Estate evaluation. A.A. 2019/20, ARCHITETTURA (ARCHITECTURE). Titolare del corso

https://sites.google.com/view/lucadacci/teaching

https://sites.google.com/view/lucadacci/projects

1. 2022: University College London & Royal Town Planning Institute : “Future Urban Growth Lab”: Isobenefit Urbanism (won January 2022)

2. Laboratório de Ecologia Urbana, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2022, Cnpq) https://leur.ufsc.br/en/parceiros.html

3. Temporalidades do território universitário: entre o espaço edificado e o espaço propositivo sent for the Brasilian call: CNPq Nº 26/2021 (March 2022 sent)

4. 2021: HORIZON 2020: EU Green Deal call (Feb 2021 sent), 5M€

5. 2021: PRIN: Sustainable Urban Mobility (Feb 2021 sent), 1M€

6. 2020: Platform for the resilience of cities. Federal University of Santa Catarina UFSC.

7. 2019-2020: Future Urban Growth Lab: Isobenefit Urbanism. University College London. UCL Grand Challenges Small Grant.

8. 2016: the Liveable City project. University of Birmingham, Lancaster University, UCL, University of Southampton, EPSRC.

9. 2016: Land Value Capture Instruments. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

10. 2016: Asian Development Bank (ADB) training project in Vietnam: Training on Urban Management for Climate Change.

11. 2016: TA-8781 MAL, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Sustainable Urban Management (Green Cities), Melaka, Malaysia.

12. 2015-2016: SUSTAIN: Strengthening Urban Sustainability (curricula) in Higher Education in Europe and Asia, European Commission, Erasmus Mundus programme.

13. 2015: Sustainability Benefit Assessment (A handbook for green growth projects in urban areas) for the World Bank – with IHS

14. 2008-09: JESSICA: Joint European Support for Sustainable Investment in City Areas. Research in collaboration with SINLOC, Prometeia, SiTI, and ISMU – with SiTI.

15. 2008-09: Evaluations of the real estate property of the ASL and ASO of the Piedmont Region. In SiTI (Higher Institute on Territorial Systems).

16. 2005/06: PRIN member (Research Projects of Relevant National Interest). Research topic: effects of urban transformation on local economical systems and real estate markets – with Politecnico di Torino.

• D'Acci, Luca (2025)
  Empirical overview of urban scaling, Urban allometry origins, critics and city performance evaluations. In: Urban Scaling. Allometry in Urban Studies and Spatial Science / D'Acci L., S.L., Routledge, pp. 18-27. ISBN: 978-1-032-26440-0
  Contributo in Volume
• D'Acci, Luca (2025)
  Planning New Cities and Isobenefit Urbanism. In: Free Global Cities / S.N., S.L., Bloomsbury, pp. 233-248. ISBN: 9781509976416
  Contributo in Volume
• D'Acci, Luca S.; Banister, David; White, Roger W. (2024)
  Liveable urban forms: planning, self-organisation, and a third way (Isobenefit urbanism). In: HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 11. ISSN 2662-9992
  Contributo su Rivista
• D'Acci, Luca S. (2023)
  A morphological cellular automata-agent based model prototype for simulating future isobenefit urbanism growth. In: UK Ireland Planning Research 2023, Glasgow
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• D'Acci, L. S.; Voto, M. (2023)
  Morphogenesis of Isobenefit urbanism: Isobenefit-cities simulator. In: SOFTWAREX, vol. 23. ISSN 2352-7110
  Contributo su Rivista
• D'Acci, Ls (2023)
  Is housing price distribution across cities, scale invariant? Fractal distribution of settlements' house prices as signature of self-organized complexity. In: CHAOS, SOLITONS AND FRACTALS, vol. 174. ISSN 0960-0779
  Contributo su Rivista
• Carta, Maurizio; Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez, ; Accossato, Katia; Baggio, Marilena; ... (2022)
  The Peccioli Charter, the New Constitution of the Nation of the Italian Resilient Communities. In: Resilient Communities and the Peccioli Charter / S.N., S.L., Springer. ISBN: 978-3-030-85846-9
  Contributo in Volume
• D'Acci, Luca (2021)
  Preferring or Needing Cities? (Evolutionary) psychology, utility and life satisfaction of urban living. In: CITY, CULTURE AND SOCIETY. ISSN 1877-9166
  Contributo su Rivista
• D'Acci, L.; Voto, M. (2021)
  A cellular automata for e-planning sustainable urban forms. In: Italian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics - conference, Parma, 2021
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• D'Acci, L.; Marshall, S.; van Oort, F.; Rogers, C. D. F.; Gabrieli, T.; Voto, M. (2021)
  Planning, environmental, economic perspectives of urban isobenefit morphogenesis. In: 14th Ecocity World Summit (Ecocity 2022), Rotterdam, 2022
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• D’Acci, Luca (2020)
  Urbanicity mental costs valuation: a review and urban-societal planning consideration. In: MIND & SOCIETY. ISSN 1593-7879
  Contributo su Rivista
• Grafakos, Stelios; Tsatsou, Alexandra; D'Acci, Luca; Kostaras, James; Patricia López ... (2019)
  Exploring the Use of Land Value Capture Instruments for Green Resilient Infrastructure Benefits: A Framework Applied in Cali, Colombia. , Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
  Altro
• D’Acci, Luca (2019)
  A new type of cities for liveable futures. Isobenefit Urbanism morphogenesis. In: JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, vol. 246. ISSN 1095-8630
  Contributo su Rivista
• D'Acci, Luca (2019)
  The Mathematics of Urban Morphology. S.L., Springer, P. 564. ISBN: 9783030123819
  Libro
• D'Acci, Luca (2019)
  On Urban Morphology and Mathematics. In: The Mathematics of Urban Morphology / S.N., S.L., Springer. ISBN: 9783030123819
  Contributo in Volume
• D'Acci, Luca (2019)
  Orientational versus esthetical parametrization in space syntax. In: Spatial Cognition & Computation. ISSN 1542-7633
  Contributo su Rivista
• D'Acci, Luca (2019)
  Aesthetical cognitive perceptions of urban street form. Pedestrian preferences toward straight or curvy route shapes. In: JOURNAL OF URBAN DESIGN. ISSN 1469-9664
  Contributo su Rivista
• D'Acci, L. (2019)
  Quality of urban area, distance from city centre, and housing value. Case study on real estate values in Turin. In: CITIES, vol. 91, pp. 71-92. ISSN 0264-2751
  Contributo su Rivista
• D'Acci, L. (2019)
  Orientational versus esthetical urban street morphology parameterization in Space Syntax. In: SPATIAL COGNITION AND COMPUTATION, vol. 19, pp. 172-189. ISSN 1387-5868
  Contributo su Rivista
• D'Acci, Luca; van Oort, Frank (2017)
  The punctiform city: a functional perspective. In: AAG 2017
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• D'Acci, Luca (2017)
  The Punctiform City: a functional perspective. In: American Associations of Geographers AGG 2017, Boston, April 2017
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• D'Acci, Luca (2016)
  Humanistic and scientific approaches to understanding cities. In: URBAN PLANNING, vol. 1. ISSN 2183-7635
  Contributo su Rivista
• Grafakos, . S.; Tsatsou, A.; D'Acci, L.; Morales, Carlos (2016)
  Land-related sustainability and resilience benefits of urban green infrastructure projects. The case of Cañaveralejo river environmental corridor in Cali, Colombia. In: Urban Transitions Global Summit 2016
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Grafakos, S.; Gianoli, A.; Tsatsou, A.; D’Acci, L. (2015)
  Towards the development of an integrated sustainability and resilience benefits assessment framework of urban interventions. In: International Conference on Urban Resilience - RESURBE II
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• D’Acci, L; Gianoli, A; Grafakos, S. (2015)
  Where people lives matters to their wellbeing. In: 55th ERSA Congress, The European Regional Science Association (ERSA).
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Grafakos, S.; Gianoli, A.; Sharma, S.; D’Acci, L. (2015)
  Integrating low carbon and climate adaptation benefits in an integrated Sustainability Benefits Assessment methodology. In: European Climate Change Adaptation Conference
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• D'Acci, Luca (2014)
  Monetary, subjective and quantitative approaches to assess urban quality of life and pleasantness in cities (Hedonic Price, Willingness-to-pay, Positional Value, life satisfaction, Isobenefit lines). In: SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH, vol. 115, pp. 531-559. ISSN 1573-0921
  Contributo su Rivista
• D'Acci, Luca; Medrano, Leandro (2011)
  Megacities in developing countries. In: European Urban Research Association (EURA), Cities without limits
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• D’Acci, L.; Sabatino, S.; Ingaramo, L (2009)
  Emerging trends in the Italian housing market. In: ERES Annual European Real Estate Society Conference
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• D'Acci, Luca; Zorzi, Ferruccio (2007)
  Un modello per la simulazione dei valori immobiliari. In: Sistemi economici locali e mercati immobiliari / Mollica E., S.L., Gangemi
  Contributo in Volume