Lorenzo is a landscape architect and urban planner from Lecce, Italy – a city close to the south-east coast of Italy. He has recently joined the FinEst Centre team for six months, however, using the opportunity of modern technologies and the Centre’s flexible arrangement, and working mostly virtually from distance.
Apart from urban planning, he said to have a great enthusiasm for music and art, having played guitar and bass guitar for many years, including the guitar he built himself! One of his favorites is Led Zeppelin.
Let’s see more about Lorenzo’s research interests!
What is the research area of your PhD studies? How does it associate with smart cities?
The research area falls within the Dept. of Engineering for Innovation, specifically within the Management Engineering area of the University of Salento.
The framework involves the study and definition of a new techno-organisational model of the ‘Interactive City‘, understood as a smart city/community model, based on an ecosystem of dynamic clusters adopting digital technologies and data to support decision-making and improve the quality of life.
It is combined with smart cities as it picks up some of the concepts of the six dimensions of the smart city, proposed as an evolution from a technology-driven approach to a human-centred one, with a focus on innovative technologies and Artificial Intelligence algorithms.
