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How Can ICTs Be Drivers of Spatial Innovation? Urban Digital Nodes for the Smart Region Between Milan and Turin

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This chapter aims at presenting the research project partially explained in this monograph (entitled The smart region between Turin and Milan: mobile services as drivers of spatial innovation towards Expo 2015 and developed by the Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani (DAStU) in collaboration with Telecom Italia) by showing its origins in relation to its spatial scenario, the issues it deals with as well as the concepts it refers to and it promotes. Inspired by previous research conducted within the Osservatorio Milano Torino of DAStU and by multidisciplinary didactic projects developed within the Alta Scuola Politecnica (ASP) between Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino, the research project applyed its reflections to the spatial configuration of the Northern Italy mega-city region’s sector between Turin and Milan: a wide area where the recent completion of the infrastructural bundle is producing significant physical and socio-economic changes and where the large event of the 2015 Universal Exhibition is located (Fig. 1.1). Within this context, this chapter introduces the research focus, concerning the effects of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and, in particular, of mobile devices for the development of new services, spatial uses and collective behavior in the quest for a better quality of places, as well as the new research concepts of internet of places and urban digital nodes.

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  1. 1.

    The research was part of the activities concerning the spatial context of the Milan-Turin metropolitan region undertaken for almost a decade by a working group coordinated by Corinna Morandi and Andrea Rolando at Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani (DAStU).

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    Which includes two Regions (Lombardy and Piedmont), three Provinces (Biella, Novara and Vercelli), two new Metropolitan Cities (Milan and Turin) and dozens of Municipalities.

  3. 3.

    In particular, the seminars Dove va il MI-TO? Una rete di saperi: primo appuntamento (May 2011) and Torino Milano. Prospettive territoriali per una cooperazione competitiva (February 2012) and some publications (De Magistris and Rolando 2011; Morandi et al. 2013a; Rolando and Djordjevic 2013a; Rolando and Scandiffio 2013b).

  4. 4.

    The multidisciplinary projects COMPITO (ASP, I cycle), EXPOint (ASP, III cycle), EXPhOst (ASP, V cycle), E-Scape (ASP, VII cycle) and EXPeerIA (ASP, IX cycle).

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    These kinds of technologies are already available and used, beginning with precision agriculture methods.

  6. 6.

    See Sects. 3.2 and 3.3.

  7. 7.

    The research concerned in particular the 2015 Milan Expo scenario, not only at the local scale of the exhibition site or at the urban scale of the hosting city, but also at the wider scale of the metropolitan region between Milan and Turin. In this perspective, ICTs could be also exploited as governance tools in the post-event planning: that is, not only analyzing the spatial dynamics and encouraging the use and development of places, but also promoting participation in the formulation of policies, plans and projects in a synthesis of top-down and bottom-up approaches.

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    See Sect. 5.2.

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    See Sect. 2.4.

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    Colletta di Castelbianco has been transformed into an attractive place in which to live, work and spend a holiday, because the entire village has been converted into an innovative workplace as well as in a widespread hotel (website: http://www.borgotelematico.it/).

  11. 11.

    Website: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2016_bids/Esino_Lario.

  12. 12.

    See Sect. 5.2.

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Morandi, C., Rolando, A. (2016). How Can ICTs Be Drivers of Spatial Innovation? Urban Digital Nodes for the Smart Region Between Milan and Turin. In: From Smart City to Smart Region. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17338-2_1

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