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Prof. Giuseppe Borruso
Department of Economics, Business, Mathematics and Statistics, University of Trieste, Italy

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Published: 09 January 2021 in Sustainability
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Accessibility and Walkability represent, today, some of the most striking challenges contemporary cities are facing, particularly in light of the goals from UN Agenda 2030, aimed at a sustainable city, and particularly in terms of a livable, healthy and inclusive city. This can be also performed thanks to a set of high quality public services and a set of important and central services and infrastructures. These principles, however, are constrained by an overall, general fragmentation affecting many urban areas, particularly as an outcome of the vehicular accessibility needs. Scholars have debated through the years on the nature of cities and on the preference for centrality of services compared to the distribution of services towards dispersed neighborhood units. Recently, a need for a wider, minimum set of services that is easily reachable to most citizens is filling the scholars and city mayors’ agendas in order to improve urban performances. This is also coupled with a huge surge in the heritage of abandoned urban items coming from previous periods of time and alternative uses. The aim of this research is to evaluate the role of abandoned urban assets—particularly big-size buildings and compounds and their areas—to facilitate the implementation of the concept of a 15-minute city, a city that is capable of granting a wider social equality and access to main urban services to citizens and city users. To do this, we developed a set of indexes, capable of detecting porosity, crossing and attractiveness. This latter index in particular represents a combined index that can be used to improve the accessibility of pedestrians in urban central locations. In the present research, we decided to limit the analysis to a subset of disused public buildings in the historic center of a sample city, as Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy). This was done in order to understand if and in which terms they can contribute, after their redevelopment, to the development of the 15-minute city, as well as reducing the “enclave–effect: they are, at present, playing in the historic urban fabric.

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Ginevra Balletto; Mara Ladu; Alessandra Milesi; Giuseppe Borruso. A Methodological Approach on Disused Public Properties in the 15-Minute City Perspective. Sustainability 2021, 13, 593 .

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Ginevra Balletto, Mara Ladu, Alessandra Milesi, Giuseppe Borruso. A Methodological Approach on Disused Public Properties in the 15-Minute City Perspective. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (2):593.

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Ginevra Balletto; Mara Ladu; Alessandra Milesi; Giuseppe Borruso. 2021. "A Methodological Approach on Disused Public Properties in the 15-Minute City Perspective." Sustainability 13, no. 2: 593.

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Published: 15 December 2020
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Urban accessibility represents one of the great challenges of the contemporary city, which is required to adopt sustainable development models in line with the UN Agenda 2030 objectives, recently confirmed by the health emergency. Urban accessibility and walkability are topics closely related to those aiming at a livable, healthy and inclusive city, based on a system of high-quality public spaces and on a network of services and infrastructures. However, these principles collide with the fragmentation of many urban contexts, built following vehicular accessibility needs. Within this framework, the city of Cagliari represents an interesting case study as it is affected by the disposal of public properties which appear as “enclaves” in the historic urban fabric. This research aims to evaluate if and in which terms the abandoned assets can facilitate the development of the 15-minutes city, as a city reducing the need to move over a certain time and space and therefore granting a more equal access to urban services to a wide range of citizens. This is done by proposing indexes defined as porosity, crossing and attractiveness, which constitute a combined index to improve the pedestrian accessibility in the “central places” of the contemporary city, where the walkability can also become a possible “free choice” for a new healthy lifestyle. These indexes were calculated for the most significant large disused public buildings in the historic center to guide future scenarios towards a 15 minutes city.

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Ginevra Balletto; Mara Ladu; Alessandra Milesi; Giuseppe Borruso. A Methodological Approach on Disused Public Properties in the 15-Minute City Perspective. 2020, 1 .

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Ginevra Balletto, Mara Ladu, Alessandra Milesi, Giuseppe Borruso. A Methodological Approach on Disused Public Properties in the 15-Minute City Perspective. . 2020; ():1.

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Ginevra Balletto; Mara Ladu; Alessandra Milesi; Giuseppe Borruso. 2020. "A Methodological Approach on Disused Public Properties in the 15-Minute City Perspective." , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 11 November 2020 in Environmental Research
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The present work aims to study the role of air pollutants in relation to the number of deaths per each Italian province affected by COVID-19. To do that, specific mortality from COVID-19 has been standardized for each Italian province and per age group (10 groups) ranging from 0 to 9 years to >90 years, based on the 2019 national population figures. The link between air pollutants and COVID-19 mortality among Italian provinces was studied implementing a linear regression model, whereas the wide set of variables were examined by means of LISA (Local Indicators of Spatial Autocorrelation), relating the spatial component of COVID-19 related data with a mix of environmental variables as explanatory variables. As results, in some provinces, namely the Western Po Valley provinces, the SMR (Standardized Mortality Ratio) is much higher than expected, and the presence of PM10 was independently associated with the case status. Furthermore, the results for LISA on SMR and PM10 demonstrate clusters of high-high values in the wide Metropolitan area of Milan and the Po Valley area respectively, with a certain level of overlap of the two distributions in the area strictly considered Milan. In conclusion, this research appears to find elements to confirm the existence of a link between pollution and the risk of death due to the disease, in particular, considering land take and air pollution, this latter referred to particulate (PM10). For this reason, we can reiterate the need to act in favour of policies aimed at reducing pollutants in the atmosphere, by means of speeding up the already existing plans and policies, targeting all sources of atmospheric pollution: industries, home heating and traffic.

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Marco Dettori; Giovanna Deiana; Ginevra Balletto; Giuseppe Borruso; Beniamino Murgante; Antonella Arghittu; Antonio Azara; Paolo Castiglia. Air pollutants and risk of death due to COVID-19 in Italy. Environmental Research 2020, 192, 110459 .

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Marco Dettori, Giovanna Deiana, Ginevra Balletto, Giuseppe Borruso, Beniamino Murgante, Antonella Arghittu, Antonio Azara, Paolo Castiglia. Air pollutants and risk of death due to COVID-19 in Italy. Environmental Research. 2020; 192 ():110459.

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Marco Dettori; Giovanna Deiana; Ginevra Balletto; Giuseppe Borruso; Beniamino Murgante; Antonella Arghittu; Antonio Azara; Paolo Castiglia. 2020. "Air pollutants and risk of death due to COVID-19 in Italy." Environmental Research 192, no. : 110459.

Conference paper
Published: 30 September 2020 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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The process of economic transition from the old to the new economy produces significant effects also on cities and territories. The change in the production cycles has led to numerous and significant phenomena of delocalization and consequent abandonment of buildings and infrastructures, according to the markets. In Italy, starting from the 70 s, the divestment of industrial areas and the more recent Federalism Law have increased the interest on reuse of public properties as an act proper to municipal urban planning. However, the public real estate management (PREM) and the choice of new urban functions to be assigned represents a difficult challenge still today, at all levels of government, including that of the Metropolitan Cities (MCs), established by the Delrio Law. MCs, which define development strategies in a medium-term period through the Metropolitan Strategic Plan (SP), represent a great opportunity to integrate PREM and public policies objectives. Within this framework, the aim of the present study is to evaluate meaning and roles recognized to the public assets in the SP drawn up by the Metropolitan City of Milan (MCM) - Lombardy Region - and in the ongoing SP of the Metropolitan City of Cagliari (MCC) - Sardinia Region. The qualitative and quantitative analysis of the two case studies allows authors to make considerations on the multiple roles that public real estate can play in the context of strategic planning to pursue sustainable development of territories.

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Mara Ladu; Ginevra Balletto; Alessandra Milesi; Luigi Mundula; Giuseppe Borruso. Public Real Estate Assets and the Metropolitan Strategic Plan in Italy. The Two Cases of Milan and Cagliari. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2020, 12255, 472 -486.

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Mara Ladu, Ginevra Balletto, Alessandra Milesi, Luigi Mundula, Giuseppe Borruso. Public Real Estate Assets and the Metropolitan Strategic Plan in Italy. The Two Cases of Milan and Cagliari. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2020; 12255 ():472-486.

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Mara Ladu; Ginevra Balletto; Alessandra Milesi; Luigi Mundula; Giuseppe Borruso. 2020. "Public Real Estate Assets and the Metropolitan Strategic Plan in Italy. The Two Cases of Milan and Cagliari." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 12255, no. : 472-486.

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Published: 29 September 2020 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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The aim of this paper is to analyze data derived from Social Media. In our time people and devices constantly generate data. The network is generating location and other data that keeps services running and ready to use in every moment. This rapid development in the availability and access to data has induced the need for better analysis techniques to understand the various phenomena. We consider a Text Mining and a Sentiment Analysis of data extracted from Social Networks. The application regards a Text Mining Analysis and a Sentiment Analysis on Twitter, in particular on tweets regarding Coronavirus and SARS.

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Gabriella Schoier; Giuseppe Borruso; Pietro Tossut. A Text Mining Analysis on Big Data Extracted from Social Media. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2020, 12252, 351 -364.

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Gabriella Schoier, Giuseppe Borruso, Pietro Tossut. A Text Mining Analysis on Big Data Extracted from Social Media. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2020; 12252 ():351-364.

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Gabriella Schoier; Giuseppe Borruso; Pietro Tossut. 2020. "A Text Mining Analysis on Big Data Extracted from Social Media." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 12252, no. : 351-364.

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Published: 22 June 2020 in Sustainability
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COVID-19 hit Italy in February 2020 after its outbreak in China at the beginning of January. Why was Italy first among the Western countries? What are the conditions that made Italy more vulnerable and the first target of this disease? What characteristics and diffusion patterns could be highlighted and hypothesized from its outbreak to the end of March 2020, after containment measures, including a national lockdown, were introduced? In this paper, we try to provide some answers to these questions, analyzing the issue from medical, geographical and planning points of view. With reference to the Italian case, we observed the phenomenon in terms of the spatial diffusion process and by observing the relation between the epidemic and various environmental elements. In particular, we started from a hypothesis of the comparable economic, geographical, climatic and environmental conditions of the areas of Wuhan (in the Hubei Province in China, where the epidemic broke out) and the Po Valley area (in Italy) where most cases and deaths were registered. Via an ecological approach, we compared the spatial distribution and pattern of COVID-19-related mortality in Italy with several geographical, environmental and socio-economic variables at a Provincial level, analyzing them by means of spatial analytical techniques such as LISA (Local Indicators of Spatial Association). Possible evidence arose relating to COVID-19 cases and Nitrogen-related pollutants and land take, particularly in the Po Valley area.

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Beniamino Murgante; Giuseppe Borruso; Ginevra Balletto; Paolo Castiglia; Marco Dettori. Why Italy First? Health, Geographical and Planning Aspects of the COVID-19 Outbreak. Sustainability 2020, 12, 5064 .

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Beniamino Murgante, Giuseppe Borruso, Ginevra Balletto, Paolo Castiglia, Marco Dettori. Why Italy First? Health, Geographical and Planning Aspects of the COVID-19 Outbreak. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (12):5064.

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Beniamino Murgante; Giuseppe Borruso; Ginevra Balletto; Paolo Castiglia; Marco Dettori. 2020. "Why Italy First? Health, Geographical and Planning Aspects of the COVID-19 Outbreak." Sustainability 12, no. 12: 5064.

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Published: 05 May 2020
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The Covid-19 has hit Italy in February 2020 after its outbreak in China at the beginning of January. But why Italy first among Western countries? What are the conditions that made Italy more vulnerable and the first target of such disease? What characteristics and what diffusion patterns could be highlighted and hypothesized, from the outbreak to the end of March 2020, after containment measures - including a national lock down – were introduced? In this paper we try to provide some answers to these questions, analyzing the issue from the medical, geographical and planning points of view. In particular, we started from a hypothesis of very similar economic, geographical, climatic and environmental conditions of the areas of Wuhan – in Hubei Province in China, the outbreak of the epidemics – and the Po Valley area – in Italy – where most cases and deaths were registered. Adopting an ecological approach, we compared the spatial distribution and pattern of Covid-19-related mortality in Italy with several geographical, environmental and socio-economic variables at Provincial level, analyzing them by means of spatial analytical techniques as LISA – Local Indicators of Spatial Association. Possible evidence relating Covid-19 cases and Nitrogen-related pollutants and land take arise, particularly in the Po Valley area.

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Beniamino Murgante; Giuseppe Borruso; Ginevra Balletto; Paolo Castiglia; Marco Dettori. Why Italy First? Health, Geographical and Planning aspects of the Covid-19 outbreak. 2020, 1 .

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Beniamino Murgante, Giuseppe Borruso, Ginevra Balletto, Paolo Castiglia, Marco Dettori. Why Italy First? Health, Geographical and Planning aspects of the Covid-19 outbreak. . 2020; ():1.

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Beniamino Murgante; Giuseppe Borruso; Ginevra Balletto; Paolo Castiglia; Marco Dettori. 2020. "Why Italy First? Health, Geographical and Planning aspects of the Covid-19 outbreak." , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 28 April 2020 in Sustainability
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Spatial planning and territorial promotion can benefit largely from the application of the Information Communication Technology (ICT) at different scales. From knowledge acquisition to management and planning, their role in building an image of the territory, and constantly updating it to the benefit of users and planners, is of paramount importance. Institutional channels, together with social networks, are the means by which both a local community and a wider community of users share experiences and perceptions. ICTs are therefore strategic in supporting and promoting a sustainable tourism development of territories. Data and information aggregators as dashboards represent examples of decision support systems where digital data are organized and processed to produce an information output. The present paper is part of a wider research, related to the valorization of a former mining area in the Sulcis-Iglesiente area (Sardinia, Italy), where the extraction activity has left the place to abandonment, and only recently to tourism, stressing the concept of slow tourism. Such new opportunity has been launched with the Santa Barbara Walk (SBW), an ancient mining route currently trying to consolidate as a tourism attraction area. Such a territory is in constant transition with unique characters of anthropic and naturalistic characterization, setting itself as a green infrastructure, capable also of attracting a wide community of regional and extra-regional users. However, its digital network—consisting of intangible infrastructure and flows—is fragmented in terms of policies and contents. Additionally, a state of disorganization in slow tourism promotion activities can be observed. To implement the SBW capabilities, the present paper aims to develop a proposal for the framework of a circular dashboard applied to the SBW. In particular, we implement a set of indicators of performance of the SBW for the organization of information on the walk’s main characters, to facilitate a shared governance and an effective tourism promotion. The SBW is recognized as a network connecting the main points of interest preferred by the slow tourism (This paper is based on the Research project TSULKI—Tourism and Sustainability in the Sulcis (Sardinia-Italy)—and on the agreement protocol between DICAAR Department of Cagliari University and Foundation of the Santa Barbara Walk, signed in December 2018).

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Ginevra Balletto; Alessandra Milesi; Mara Ladu; Giuseppe Borruso. A Dashboard for Supporting Slow Tourism in Green Infrastructures. A Methodological Proposal in Sardinia (Italy). Sustainability 2020, 12, 3579 .

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Ginevra Balletto, Alessandra Milesi, Mara Ladu, Giuseppe Borruso. A Dashboard for Supporting Slow Tourism in Green Infrastructures. A Methodological Proposal in Sardinia (Italy). Sustainability. 2020; 12 (9):3579.

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Ginevra Balletto; Alessandra Milesi; Mara Ladu; Giuseppe Borruso. 2020. "A Dashboard for Supporting Slow Tourism in Green Infrastructures. A Methodological Proposal in Sardinia (Italy)." Sustainability 12, no. 9: 3579.

Journal article
Published: 15 January 2020 in Sustainability
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The paper addresses the issue of the concurrent use of coastal areas for military training and civil activities, namely tourism. In the paper, starting from the consideration of publicly owned assets as ‘semi-commons’, we propose a method based on the comparison of planning instruments related to the different uses, and try to model them in a grid, where different weights and degrees of evaluation can be considered, in order to promote, rather than blocking, possible activities, compatible with concurrent use. The military areas in Sardinia (region and island, Italy) are around 234 km2, which constitutes 60% of the national surface affected by military easements. This situation is due to its geographic position, considered centrality in the Mediterranean for strategic reasons. This contribution evaluates the performance of the Local Coastline Plan (LCP) and the Site management plan of Community Interest (SCI) in conditions of military constraint. The case study is the municipality of Villaputzu South Sardinia, Italy), where an important coastal military easement and the use of the coast for recreational tourism purposes coexist together through specific planning, a consequence of institutional agreements between the Municipal Administration of Villaputzu and the Ministry of Defense. The idea is considering the concurrent possible land uses guaranteed by the different planning instruments, instead of focusing, as it is generally the rule, on the sum of constraints provided by the laws. The local coastline plan has been identified as the ideal planning tool, which addresses the co-existence of apparently opposite land uses and interests, as those expressed by the local municipal planning and those expressed by the military. An evaluation of the congruence of the specific objectives of the LCP and SCI shows how their combined action favors the environmental enhancement of Sardinia, contributing to the formation of ecosystem services, even in particular conditions arising from military easements. These are sites that evolve from ‘anticommons’ to ‘semicommons’. In fact, the military release process in Sardinia, together with the promiscuous military and civil use, activates unique governance policies of their kind that find a significant field of application in Sardinia to guarantee sustainable renewal of economic development of the ‘semi-commons’ awaiting to become ‘commons’.

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Ginevra Balletto; Alessandra Milesi; Nicolò Fenu; Giuseppe Borruso; Luigi Mundula. Military Training Areas as Semicommons: The Territorial Valorization of Quirra (Sardinia) from Easements to Ecosystem Services. Sustainability 2020, 12, 622 .

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Ginevra Balletto, Alessandra Milesi, Nicolò Fenu, Giuseppe Borruso, Luigi Mundula. Military Training Areas as Semicommons: The Territorial Valorization of Quirra (Sardinia) from Easements to Ecosystem Services. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (2):622.

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Ginevra Balletto; Alessandra Milesi; Nicolò Fenu; Giuseppe Borruso; Luigi Mundula. 2020. "Military Training Areas as Semicommons: The Territorial Valorization of Quirra (Sardinia) from Easements to Ecosystem Services." Sustainability 12, no. 2: 622.

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Published: 16 December 2019
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Information and communication technologies play an increasingly important role in the process of acquiring knowledge from a territory and managing it at different scales. ICTs allow a rapid diffusion of data not only through institutional channels but also through social networks where the smart community share experiences and perceptions. In this sense, ICTs become strategic to support the promotion of sustainable tourism development of territories. An important tool to implement it, can be a circular smart dashboard, a decision support system in which the digital data are organized and processed to produce an information output, to be used, after the evaluation by the decision makers, as a new input for the system. The present paper deals with a wider research the authors are involved in, related to the reconversion and valorization of a former mining area towards slow tourism, as the Santa Barbara Walk (SBW), an ancient mining route in the Sulcis Iglesiente area (Sardinia, Italy) . In particular, we here focus on the design proposal of a dashboard, capable of organizing information concerning the main features of the walk, in order to facilitate a shared governance for an effective tourism promotion. The paper is based on a thorough recognition of the main characteristics of the Walk, both the material ones and the digital, immaterial ones. The SBW represents in fact a network connecting the main points of interest along the Walk. On the contrary, its digital network – consisting of intangible infrastructure and flows - is however fragmented in terms of policies and contents Also a state of disorganization in slow tourism promotion activities can be observed. The goal of this paper is to present and analysis of the area, and to propose an evaluation and planning tool as the design of a circular dashboard of the SBW.

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Ginevra Balletto; Giuseppe Borruso; Alessandra Milesi; Mara Ladu. Smart Dashboard and Slow Tourism. A Case Study of2 Santa Barbara Walk (Sulcis – Iglesiente, Sardinia, 3 Italy). 2019, 1 .

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Ginevra Balletto, Giuseppe Borruso, Alessandra Milesi, Mara Ladu. Smart Dashboard and Slow Tourism. A Case Study of2 Santa Barbara Walk (Sulcis – Iglesiente, Sardinia, 3 Italy). . 2019; ():1.

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Ginevra Balletto; Giuseppe Borruso; Alessandra Milesi; Mara Ladu. 2019. "Smart Dashboard and Slow Tourism. A Case Study of2 Santa Barbara Walk (Sulcis – Iglesiente, Sardinia, 3 Italy)." , no. : 1.

Conference paper
Published: 29 June 2019 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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Even if there is not a universally shared definition, the term “Smart City” recalls a sustainable, hyper-technological city that is self-sufficient in terms of energy; this type of city uses communication systems between the various technologies to optimize the efficiency of services and to better connect all citizens. Its huge acceptance, both by the scientific community and the urban governance institutions, highlights how the time of reinterpretation of the city had arrived. The smart city, correlated by the transition of the old to the new economy, is based on innovation aimed at achieving maximum efficiency in the urban system through the synergy between traditional functions attributable to the tangible part of the city (residences, services, infrastructures, etc.) and new functions attributable to the intangible one (IoT, virtual and augmented reality, etc.). Reaching these goals drives cities into a circle of continuous evolution, which implies, like all changes, both positive aspects, and side effects, i.e., a ‘dark side’. Aim of the paper is to highlight this aspect and its implications. This is found in economic-social dynamics, such as gentrification, filtering and sprawl, environmental and geo-political dynamics, related to finding the resources needed to support digital urban technological innovation and to guarantee high standards of quality of life, and governance dynamics, linked to the capacity of changing the ways of administrate the change and changing radically - thanks to technology - the way of addressing the daily - as well as the strategic - problems and challenges of the city.

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Luigi Mundula; Ginevra Balletto; Giuseppe Borruso. The ‘Dark Side’ of the Smartness. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2019, 253 -268.

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Luigi Mundula, Ginevra Balletto, Giuseppe Borruso. The ‘Dark Side’ of the Smartness. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2019; ():253-268.

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Luigi Mundula; Ginevra Balletto; Giuseppe Borruso. 2019. "The ‘Dark Side’ of the Smartness." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 253-268.

Conference paper
Published: 04 July 2018 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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The paper tackle the issue related to the promotion of internal areas of Sardinia, considered the contrast existing between a strong, peak coastal tourism and a lower development in the internal areas. Considered the vast amount of cultural and environmental goods present in the territory, particularly in internal areas, in this paper we promote a mixed qualitative – quantitative method for highlighting more promising areas for targeting ad hoc policies of development. We start with a hot spot analysis of cultural and environmental goods in Sardinia Region, with particular reference to the internal areas. We then proceed with highlighting the municipalities or aggregation of municipalities presenting the highest concentrations of such goods. Then we qualitatively evaluate those events or sites generally more renown and appreciated, observing if local – municipal or regional – policies have been activated for their promotion. Observed that, we suggest possible interventions to enhance the touristic offer of such part of the Sardinia island.

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Silvia Battino; Ginevra Balletto; Giuseppe Borruso; Carlo Donato. Internal Areas and Smart Tourism. Promoting Territories in Sardinia Island. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2018, 44 -57.

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Silvia Battino, Ginevra Balletto, Giuseppe Borruso, Carlo Donato. Internal Areas and Smart Tourism. Promoting Territories in Sardinia Island. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2018; ():44-57.

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Silvia Battino; Ginevra Balletto; Giuseppe Borruso; Carlo Donato. 2018. "Internal Areas and Smart Tourism. Promoting Territories in Sardinia Island." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 44-57.

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Published: 04 July 2018 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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In this paper we examine the changes in terms of urban rent and urban planning occurring after the introduction on the Italian law of 21 June 2017, n. 96 on Football stadiums property and management. Such law is actually paving the way to a set of new and still unexplored consequences on urban rents and urban renewal processes and real estate markets, as well as in terms of new patterns of urban behaviors. In detail, changes deal with the times strictly related to sport events, well scheduled in time (peak events), and those related to the ordinary life of the area (off peak events) as retail, transport and leisure/residential activities, often now coupled with the presence of such sport facilities. We briefly analyze some few Italian cases of football stadiums renewals, especially looking at those settled in cities hosting premier league clubs. We looked also at consequences they had in terms of urban rent, urban services. After, we started considering the possible implications that such investments can have on the cities that are likely to host such renewal processes in the near future, trying to highlight some possible changes in the “hedonic price” asset, and suggestions in terms of policy aimed at igniting a ‘good’ gentrification process.

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Ginevra Balletto; Giuseppe Borruso; Francesco Tajani; Carmelo M. Torre. Gentrification and Sport. Football Stadiums and Changes in the Urban Rent. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2018, 58 -74.

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Ginevra Balletto, Giuseppe Borruso, Francesco Tajani, Carmelo M. Torre. Gentrification and Sport. Football Stadiums and Changes in the Urban Rent. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2018; ():58-74.

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Ginevra Balletto; Giuseppe Borruso; Francesco Tajani; Carmelo M. Torre. 2018. "Gentrification and Sport. Football Stadiums and Changes in the Urban Rent." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 58-74.

Journal article
Published: 01 October 2016 in Journal of Air Transport Management
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Although much research has been performed on passengers' origin airport choice, there is little research on airports' catchment area size and even less on airports' catchment areas in cross-border regions. This paper addresses passengers' airport choice and analyzes airports' catchment area size and its homogeneity in the Upper Adriatic region. Using the results of passengers' survey at three regional airports (Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU), Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE) and Trieste Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza Airport (TRS)) we have estimated the airports' catchment areas and airports market shares therein using multinomial logit (MNL) model structure. To additionally explore the passengers' airport choice behavior considering the different sensitivity across travellers to regional, demographic and airports attributes and account for preference heterogeneity in airport choice a mixed logit model was used. The results indicated that the three airports have relatively small core catchment areas and that the market share rapidly decreases with the increasing access time to airport. Partially, the results reinforced earlier findings showing that access time to airport is the most important determinant in airport choice for all segments (business/leisure and cross-border/domestic), however the sensitivity to access time is more pronounced in business and domestic group. Additionally, the results indicated pronounced loyalty to domestic airports and generally low importance of ticket prices, and show that in market conditions where all airports in the region have a low-cost carrier (LCC) the effect of LCC on airport choice is limited. Finally, the results indicated that the borders might have an influence on airport choice and that overall, in the cross-border regions the passengers’ airport choice process is even more complex than in non cross-border regions.

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Dejan Paliska; Samo Drobne; Giuseppe Borruso; Massimo Gardina; Daša Fabjan. Passengers' airport choice and airports' catchment area analysis in cross-border Upper Adriatic multi-airport region. Journal of Air Transport Management 2016, 57, 143 -154.

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Dejan Paliska, Samo Drobne, Giuseppe Borruso, Massimo Gardina, Daša Fabjan. Passengers' airport choice and airports' catchment area analysis in cross-border Upper Adriatic multi-airport region. Journal of Air Transport Management. 2016; 57 ():143-154.

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Dejan Paliska; Samo Drobne; Giuseppe Borruso; Massimo Gardina; Daša Fabjan. 2016. "Passengers' airport choice and airports' catchment area analysis in cross-border Upper Adriatic multi-airport region." Journal of Air Transport Management 57, no. : 143-154.

Book chapter
Published: 31 May 2016 in Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
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The work done deals with the concept of Volunteered Geographic Information and is based on the use of a mobile mapping collection tool to retrieve geographical data from an urban fieldwork. The research has been carried on during the academic year 2014/2015, involving students from the course of Geography of Networks within the post graduate degrees in ‘Economics’ and ‘Business’ of the University of Trieste (Italy). The intent was testing the potential of crowdsourcing in retrieving data using a bottom up approach, relying on a set of trained and aware ‘urban sensors’ as data collectors. This allowed us to derive first-hand geographical data concerning a particular topic and analyze its spatial distribution by means of Geographical Information Systems and spatial analytical tools. The topic studied was represented by the urban ‘movida’, the analysis of the areas of the city that are more or less active during the days and during the week. This major aim was also coupled with an ancillary one, as the coverage of Wi-Fi hotspots and networks over the urban area of Trieste. It is known that many Italian cities still do not allow a very wide coverage of wireless networks to access the Internet. The city of Trieste, on the border between Italy and Slovenia, is suited with a certain degree of coverage, particularly in main roads and squares, thanks to free Wi-Fi coverage managed by the municipality and an academic network of Eduroam system, quite spread over European and world cities hosting universities and research centers.

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Giuseppe Borruso; Viola Defend. Mapping a City’s Activity. A Project of Volunteered Geographic Information Using Mobile Mapping Collection. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography 2016, 391 -411.

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Giuseppe Borruso, Viola Defend. Mapping a City’s Activity. A Project of Volunteered Geographic Information Using Mobile Mapping Collection. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. 2016; ():391-411.

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Giuseppe Borruso; Viola Defend. 2016. "Mapping a City’s Activity. A Project of Volunteered Geographic Information Using Mobile Mapping Collection." Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography , no. : 391-411.

Conference paper
Published: 20 June 2015 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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Research concerned about cities paid a particular attention, particularly in the past, related to the central places of a city, or the areas where central activities characterizing cities are located. That led to the definition of the so called Central Business District - also known as “Downtown” or “the City”. Some related concepts have been also developed for addressing tourism and recreation. That led to defining the Recreational Business District, a – not necessarily geographically – central part of a city generally hosting free time and leisure, lived by locals, visitors and tourists. Here a research is carried on, in order to evaluate the ways in which recreational areas tend to distribute and concentrate on urban environments. The analysis is carried on considering the municipality of Olbia in Sardinia (Italy). The idea is that of comparing the spatial distribution and extent of such Recreational areas in parts of a territory quite different in shapes, population and, in general geographical characters. The analysis was also performed over recreational activities considering their level of connectedness by means of social networks ad media, examining the pattern they draw in a tourist area. Different techniques are used, including a point pattern analysis based on Kernel Density Estimation.

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Silvia Battino; Giuseppe Borruso; Carlo Donato. Recreation Tourist Areas. An Exam on Recreational Business Districts in Olbia (Sardinia). Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2015, 662 -674.

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Silvia Battino, Giuseppe Borruso, Carlo Donato. Recreation Tourist Areas. An Exam on Recreational Business Districts in Olbia (Sardinia). Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2015; ():662-674.

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Silvia Battino; Giuseppe Borruso; Carlo Donato. 2015. "Recreation Tourist Areas. An Exam on Recreational Business Districts in Olbia (Sardinia)." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 662-674.

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Published: 20 June 2015 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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Different motivation are related with the analysis of Spatial Big Data (SBD). Google Earth, Google Maps, Navigation, location-based service allow to obtain a great amount of geo-referenced data. Often spatial datasets exceed the capacity of current computing systems to manage, process, or analyze the data with reasonable effort. Considering SBD history methodology as Data-intensive Computing and Data Mining techniques have been useful. In this context the problem regards the analysis of of high frequency spatial data. In this paper we present an approach to clustering of high dimensional data which allows a flexible approach to the statistical modeling of phenomena characterized by unobserved heterogeneity. We consider the MDBSCAN and compare it with the classical k-means approach. The applications concern a synthetic data set and a data set of satellite images.

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Gabriella Schoier; Giuseppe Borruso. On the Problem of Clustering Spatial Big Data. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2015, 688 -697.

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Gabriella Schoier, Giuseppe Borruso. On the Problem of Clustering Spatial Big Data. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2015; ():688-697.

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Gabriella Schoier; Giuseppe Borruso. 2015. "On the Problem of Clustering Spatial Big Data." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 688-697.

Book chapter
Published: 01 January 2015 in Dynamics of Disasters
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Very often the concept of smart city is strongly related to the flourishing of mobile applications, stressing the technological aspects and a top-down approach of high-tech centralized control systems capable of resolving all the urban issues, completely forgetting the essence of a city with its connected problems. The real challenge in future years will be a huge increase in the urban population and the changes this will produce in energy and resource consumption. It is fundamental to manage this phenomenon with clever approaches in order to guarantee a better management of resources and their sustainable access to present and future generations. This chapter develops some considerations on these aspects, trying to insert the technological issues within a framework closer to planning and with attention to the social impact.

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Beniamino Murgante; Giuseppe Borruso. Smart Cities in a Smart World. Dynamics of Disasters 2015, 13 -35.

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Beniamino Murgante, Giuseppe Borruso. Smart Cities in a Smart World. Dynamics of Disasters. 2015; ():13-35.

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Beniamino Murgante; Giuseppe Borruso. 2015. "Smart Cities in a Smart World." Dynamics of Disasters , no. : 13-35.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2015 in Geodetski vestnik
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Dejan Paliska; Samo Drobne; Giuseppe Borruso; Massimo Gardina; Daša Fabjan. Analysis of Catchment Areas of Three Airports in the Upper Adriatic Region. Geodetski vestnik 2015, 59, 28 -41.

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Dejan Paliska, Samo Drobne, Giuseppe Borruso, Massimo Gardina, Daša Fabjan. Analysis of Catchment Areas of Three Airports in the Upper Adriatic Region. Geodetski vestnik. 2015; 59 (1):28-41.

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Dejan Paliska; Samo Drobne; Giuseppe Borruso; Massimo Gardina; Daša Fabjan. 2015. "Analysis of Catchment Areas of Three Airports in the Upper Adriatic Region." Geodetski vestnik 59, no. 1: 28-41.

Conference paper
Published: 01 January 2013 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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The term “Smart City” is to-date widely used, but little clarity appears in the definition behind it. Several approaches led to a growing emphasis on the combined use of geographic information and communication technology to build cognitive frameworks in city planning and management. The present paper tackles an effort to define ‘smart cities’ and to identify both elements of smartness, and critical aspects related to the current interpretation of the term. In particular, the risk of considering the technological layer of Smart City as an innovative element has been observed, highlighting, on the contrary, the need to consider Smart Cities in terms of a major urban planning effort to coordinate and harmonize different urban players, sustained by ICT instruments.

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Beniamino Murgante; Giuseppe Borruso. Cities and Smartness: A Critical Analysis of Opportunities and Risks. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2013, 630 -642.

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Beniamino Murgante, Giuseppe Borruso. Cities and Smartness: A Critical Analysis of Opportunities and Risks. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2013; ():630-642.

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Beniamino Murgante; Giuseppe Borruso. 2013. "Cities and Smartness: A Critical Analysis of Opportunities and Risks." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 630-642.