Press Coverage
MIT Special Seminar Spring 2023
X-Cities Exhibition at Politecnico di Milano
NetMob Conference in Madrid, Spain
Dr. Andrea Pimpinella presented as poster the results of a mobile radio data-driven study focused on the analysis of the effects of Covid-19 pandemic on cellular users presence in the Italian region of Valtellina, co-authored by Dr. Carmelo Ignaccolo and Dr. Cristina Boniotti. The abstract of the presented poster is available at the following link. The conference took place between October 4-6, 2023.
Changing Cities Conference in Rhodes, Greece
Dr. Carmelo Ignaccolo and MCP student Aika Nat presented the results of the “Smart Villages of Italy” practicum at the 6th edition of the Changing Cities Conference on the island of Rhodes, Greece. The title of the presentation was “Small-Town Renaissance.” An abstract of the presented talk is available at the following link. The conference took place between June 24-28, 2024.
IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications Conference (PIMRC) in Valencia, Spain
Building on top of the analysis presented in Madrid at NetMob2023, Dr Andrea Pimpinella presented at the Smart City Session of PIMRC Conference an extended version of the analysis of the effects of Covid-19 pandemic of cellular users presence in Valtellina. In this contribution, structured as Regular Paper and co-authored by Dr. Carmelo Ignaccolo and Dr. Cristina Boniotti, the authors envision a framework capable of profiling urban settlements based on the interplay between their attractiveness (measured in their work using the number of cellular users connected to the network as a proxy of people presence in the area) and the characteristics of the built and natural environment. Waiting for publication in IEEE Xplore repository, here attached a non-camera-ready version of the paper. The conference took place between September 2-5, 2024.
“Small-Town Renaissance” Book Project
The MIT and Politecnico teams are working towards publishing an edited volume titled “Small-Town Renaissance: Bridging Technology, Heritage, and Planning in Shrinking Italy.” Professors Fossa, Ryan, and Ignaccolo are the editors of this volume. Contributors include former students of the class, Professor Guenther, Dr. Pimpinella, Dr. Boniotti, and Dr. Militello. Fondazione Politecnico is supporting the publication of this volume with Springer.
