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Dipartimento di Architettura, Ingegneria delle Costruzioni e Ambiente Costruito
Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering
Prof. Luca Marescotti - Facoltà di Architettura e Società - Politecnico di Milano
Title Architect
Birth date November 21st, 1945.
graduated 1969
Italian.
Language Italian, english, franch, spanish.
Academic title Associate professor
scientific interests: Urban and regional planning, theory and operational, Gis, Cultural Heritage, Transportation System
Url: https://beep.metid.polimi.it/it
http://polimi.academia.edu/LucaMarescotti
Urban and regional planner, teacher at Politecnico di Milano and in a post-graduated School for
Architectural and Landscape Heritage (Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Architettonici e del
paesaggio SSBAP).
He graduated in architecture at Politecnico di Milano in 1969. From 1969 to 1976 it was charged as
collaborator and assistant with ministerial scholarship and grant. Assistant professor from 1976 to
the 1982. Associated professor since 1982, always at the Polytechnic in Milan.
He was president of the Centre for Cultural Heritage and Environment in Lombardy (Centro per i
Beni Culturali e Ambientali della Lombardia) from 1986 to 2003, he belonged to the scientific
Committee of MONDOGIS from 2001-2005, he was member of the scientific Committee of ASITA
from 2004 to 2009 and of AMFM Gis Italy from 2005 to the 2008.
His main interests were on theory of the urbanism, with particular attention to transportation
systems, to cultural heritage and environmental sustainability. He deepened the devices of the
urban development, the relationships among data, information and knowledge in the model
applications to regional analysis related to the transport net, to the facilities planning and to the
more adequate and suitable techniques for decision making. In the concerning studies the territorial
analyses he has deepened the potentialities of the cartography and the geographical information
systems as Decision Support System in planning and managing. He has collaborated with university
and industrial firms (Olivetti spa, Ibm Semea spa, ComputerVision Spa, Consortium Milan
Ricerche, Erasmus and Cilea) for researches and educational activities on themes of computer
science and information technologies applied to land planning, transportation and cultural heritage.
He was scientific manager of two research unities (Politecnico di Milano and Consortium Milano
Ricerche) within the Finalized Projects on Transportation promoted by the CNR. From these
experiences he worked with Italtel Telesis to develop software for a traffic control system in real
time, always combining practices with theoretical implications and their transfer to institutional
education and publications. That was the start-up for a new firm: in 1993 with the arch. Adele Maria
Cunietti (unique administrator) and arch. Vincent Curti they founded in Milan the society of
engineering Nus solution for the urban and territorial planning srl. Nus was operating as society
specialized in traffic planning and road design until 2012. He with Lorenzo Mussone promoted a
Cluster named Motus "Models, Tools and Technologies for the Government of the Mobility" which
participate the Department INDACO (Department of Industrial Design, of the Arts, of the
Communication and of the Fashion), the DEI (Department of Electronics and Information) and the
DIAP (Department of Architecture and Planning) 2007-2013.
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Dipartimento di Architettura, Ingegneria delle Costruzioni e Ambiente Costruito
Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering
Prof. Luca Marescotti - Facoltà di Architettura e Società - Politecnico di Milano
Books Published
 Luca Marescotti, Urbanistica, Accademia, Milano, 1979.
 Mara De Benedetti, Luca Marescotti, Giulio Morbelli, Liliana Padovani, La questione dei
centri storici e del recupero del patrimonio edilizio in Europa. Documentazione
bibliografica: Francia, Gran Bretagna, Italia, Repubblica Federale Tedesca - 1970-1979,
Quaderni del Centro di Documentazione, Clup, Milano, 1979.
 Luca Marescotti, Fondamenti di urbanistica, Clup, Milano, 19811
.
 Vincenzo Curti, Paolo Demaestri, Luca Marescotti, Anna Moretti, Considerazioni sull’uso
di indicatori geometrici nell’analisi delle reti di trasporti, Clup, Milano, 1988.
 Marina Alberti, Lorenzo Bagini, Luca Marescotti, Marta Puppo, Sistemi informativi
ambientali e urbanistica, Il Rostro, Milano, 1995.
 Luca Marescotti, Lorenzo Mussone, Traffico urbano: possibilità del controllo, strumenti e
loro efficacia, Il Rostro, Milano, 1998.
 Vincenzo M. Curti, Luca Marescotti, Lorenzo Mussone, Pianificazione dei trasporti e
gestione del traffico urbano, Il Rostro, Milano, 1999.
 Vincenzo M. Curti, Luca Marescotti, Lorenzo Mussone, Rotonde. Tecnologie per la
progettazione, per la realizzazione e la valutazione delle rotonde, Libreria Clup, Milano,
2004, pp. 3572
.
 Luca Marescotti, Città tecnologie ambiente. Le tecnologie per la sostenibilità e la
protezione ambientale, Libreria Clup, Milano, 2004, pp. 410.
 Luca Marescotti, Lorenzo Mussone (editors), Conoscenza e monitoraggio della domanda di
mobilità nelle aree metropolitane: teoria, applicazioni e tecnologia, Libreria Clup, Milano,
2007.
 Luca Marescotti, Lorenzo Mussone (editors), Grandi infrastrutture per la mobilità di
trasporto e sistemi metropolitani: Milano, Roma e Napoli, Libreria Clup, Milano, 2007.
 Luca Marescotti, Urbanistica. Fondamenti e teoria, Maggioli, Santarcangelo di Romagna,
2008, pp. xxx+6953
.
 Vincenzo M. Curti, Luca Marescotti, Lorenzo Mussone, Rotonde. Tecnologie per la
progettazione, per la realizzazione e la valutazione delle rotonde, Maggioli, Santarcangelo
di Romagna, 2008 pp. 4234
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1 Riedizione di Marescotti 1979.
2 Terza edizione completamente riveduta e ampliata. Prima edizione: 2002.
3 Edizione completamente rivista e ampliata del testo Urbanistica del 1979.
4 Quarta edizione riveduta, ampliata con casi studio e con immagini. Prima edizione: 2002.
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