Comparative Domestic Policy Program Fellowship 2009 Application

Deadline for Submission: July 31, 2009

Personal Information Name

Caneparo Luca Last First Middle Address

Strada Volante Guido Alessandro, 37 Street Address

Torino I-10133 Italy City State Zip Country Contact Information

+39 011 6610052 +39 011 564 6501 Home/Cell Phone Number Work/Office Phone Number

+39 011 564 6599 luca.caneparo@polito.it Fax Number Email Address Professional Information

Prof. Arch. LAQ-TIP Laboratory, Politecnico di Torino

Job Title Current Employer or Organizational Affiliation

Proposal Information Comparing Visioning Processes for Sustainable Turin Metropolitan Area Title of Project Policy Focus Area (please circle one)

Urban Sustainability Education & Workforce Development

Affordable Housing & Cost of Living Combating Social Exclusion

Six months, starting from November and concluding in June Proposed Length and Dates of Fellowship (Please keep in mind that the fellowship is intended to take place between October 2009 and June 2010.) Language Abilities (please highlight your level of fluency) English (Spoken): Excellent Good Fair English (Written): Excellent Good Fair

Other Language Skills (please indicate level of fluency) French Spoken Fair In addition to this form, the following materials are required as part of the application: Cover Letter Resume or Curriculum Vitae Proposal (4-5 pages) Budget (please use template found on GMF website) Two signed professional references A signed letter from your employer, supervisor or board chair confirming

their agreement to your absence from your place of employment for the term of the fellowship.

By signing below, I indicate that I have read the Call for Applications and understand the parameters of the CDP Fellowship Program. I understand that if I am selected as a Fellow I will be expected to conduct my fellowship within the timeframe I proposed.

July 31, 2009

Signature Date With questions or concerns and to submit your application, please contact:

Lizzie Woods Program Assistant, Comparative Domestic Policy Program The German Marshall Fund of the United States 1744 R Street NW Washington, DC 20009 Phone: (202) 683-2620 Fax: (202) 265-1662 Email: ewoods@gmfus.org

Department of Architectural Design Department of Territorial Studies and Planning

LABORATORIO DI ALTA QUALITÀ - PROGETTO TERRITORIALE INTEGRATO POLITECNICO DI TORINO - Corso Castelfidardo 30/A - 10138 Torino - Italia tel +39 011 1975 1801 - fax +39 011 1975 1122 - laq-tip@polito.it - www.laq-tip.polito.it

Turin, 31 July 2009 Ms Lizzie Woods Program Assistant, Comparative Domestic Policy Program The German Marshall Fund of the United States 1744 R Street NW Washington, DC 20009 USA Subject: Fellowship Fall 2009 Application to Comparative Domestic Policy Program

Dear Ms. Woods,

In response to the German Marshall Fund Fall 2009 Call for Applications for Fellowships, I am submitting my Proposal.

The enclosed Proposal focuses on Comparing Visioning Processes for Sustainable Turin Metropolitan Area.

I have appreciated the opportunity to challenge a transatlantic perspective in planning- and policy-making, offered by the Comparative Domestic Policy Program. Thank you for your consideration,

Sincerely,

Prof. Luca Caneparo

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Curriculum Vitae Prof. Arch. Luca Caneparo

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Masters Degree in Architecture, Politecnico di Torino

PhD Doctor in Architecture, Politecnico di Torino

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Politecnico di Torino

2003 – Associate Director of the High-Quality Laboratory - Territorial

Integrated Project, funders Department of Architectural Design and

Department of Territorial Studies and Planning, Politecnico di Torino

2001-2004 Assistant Professor non tenured, Department of Architectural Design,

Politecnico di Torino

2001 Offer of Associate Professor Position with tenure-track at the

Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Illinois Institute of

Technology

1999 Offer of Senior Lecturer Position (equivalent to Associate Professor

with tenure-track) in Digital Design Media, School of Architecture,

University of Sidney

1988 – founding partner of Archimedia, a company specialised in simulation

for local governments and firms. Archimedia company has

worked with Aosta, Beinasco, Chivasso, Milan, Turin Municipalities,

with INCISA, ICIS, POLICREO, Fiatengineering companies, and with

Studio 65, Cucchiarati, Rosental, Hutter firms.

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As Director of the High-Quality Laboratory – Territorial Integrated Project he has the

responsibility of about thirty projects at different scales. with local authorities. The

Laboratory has started with a funding of € 500,000, and in five years raised about €

700,000 from contracts with local authorities (e.g. Municipal, Province, Regional) and

Institutions National and European:

2004 Experimentation of advanced tools for urban-simulation and -design to the

projects foreseen on the Spina2 area. Commissioned by Turin Municipality. Partners

CSI Piemonte, Gruppo Torinese Trasporti SpA. The Project was the early testbed for

the facilities and methodologies developed at the LAQ-TIP. Two future scenarios for

the area were generated, simulated and analysed. Accordingly, every scenario has

been elaborated into 3D virtual models, not just realistic models, but also symbolic

ones, for the communication to decision-makers, as well as to a larger audience.

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2003 Simulation of scenarios on the Susa Valley. Commissioned by the Province of

Turin. Partners Space Applications Institute, European Commission, CSI Piemonte.

The project referred to a simulation of the Valley, site of the Winter Olympic Games,

covering the next two decades and considering four scenarios, in order to highlight the

problems and resources of this area. The scenarios were used as tools to support the

decision-making process, as regards strategic planning, and to deploy the visions to a

broad audience. Although the simulation was commissioned early on, the Province

regrettably decided to adopt the methodologies and results of this project at a late

stage of the process.

2004 Transformation of Porta Nuova area in Turin: the railway infrastructures,

economic issues and urban form. Commissioned by Higher Institute on Innovation

Territorial Systems. Partners Italian National Railway, Turin Municipality. The research

outlines possible futures for the main railway-station and –infrastructure in Torino. The

future urban form is simulated starting from simplified hypotheses, at different

densities and typologies. These are not forecasts, but design simulation of plausible

layouts.

2005 Experimentation of advanced tools of simulation and visualisation for the

Project Virtual Piedmont. Commissioned by Piedmont Region. Partners Vodafone,

Telecom. The Lab has developed a methodology and tech to generate full regional

models at the very high resolution, linking GIS data, Census records, weather series,

satellite and aerial imagery etc.

2006 Integrated land use-transportation simulation of Turin Metropolitan area.

Funder Turin Municipality, International Turin Association, Institure for Scientific

Interchange. Partners Metropolitan Transportation Agency, Turin Province, CSI.

2007 University sites and the future layout of the metropolitan area. Commissioned

by the University: synthesis and outcomes of the “Master Plan” addressing an

integrated project for university sites.

2008 Experimentation of innovative analysis, simulation, and representation

technologies on the impact of the new European North-South Corridor through the

Gottardo. Commissioned by the region of Lombardy. The projects aims to

communicate the capabilities and criticalities, identified through simulations, of the

new major road axis across Europe to decision-makers and citizens.

2008 Chairman of the Main Session Tools for Governance, Visioning and engaging

the future at World Congress of Architecture, where those responsible best visioning

practices worldwide presented and discussed their experiences.

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Caneparo, Luca et al. (Eds). Future Cities and Regions. Simulation, Scenario and

Visioning, Governance and Scales. New York, Heidelberg: Springer, forthcoming.

Caneparo, Luca; Guerra, Francesco; Montuori, Alfonso. “Uncertainty and Feature

Selection of Integrated Land Use-Transportation Microsimulation Models”, in

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. ISSN: 0198-9715, forthcoming.

Caneparo, Luca; Collo, Mattia; Di Giannantonio, Davide; Lombardo, Vincenzo;

Montuori, Alfonso; Pensa, Stefano. “Generating Urban Morphologies from Ontologies”.

In: Teller, J. Tweed, C. E Rabino Giovanni (Eds). Conceptual Models for Urban

Practitioners. Bologna: Società Editrice Esculapio, pp. 171-184. ISBN: 88-7488-208-4.

2008.

Caneparo, Luca. “Generative platform for urban and regional design”, in Automation in

Construction, 16, 2007, pp. 70-77.

Caneparo, Luca. Collo, Mattia. Montuori, Alfonso. Stefano, Pensa. “Urban Generator”,

in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural

Design Futures. New York: Springer, 2007. pp. 347-360.

Caneparo, Luca. Robiglio, Matteo. “UrbanLab. Agent-Based Simulation of Urban and

Regional Dynamics”, in Chiu, Mao-Lin et al. (eds). Digital Design, Proceedings of

CAAD Futures. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, pp. 279-290.

Caneparo, Luca; Masala, Elena. Robiglio, Matteo. “Dynamic Generative Modelling

System for Urban and Regional Design”, in Computer Aided Architectural Design

Futures. New York: Springer, 2005, pp. 259-268.

Caneparo, Luca; Robiglio, Matteo. “Evolutionary Automata for Suburban Form

Simulation”, in de Vries, Bauke; van Leeuwen, Jos; Achten, Henri. (a cura di).

Proceedings of CAAD Futures. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001, pp.

767-780

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Partner of French project ULTISIM Vers un modèle intégré transport-urbanisme

européen, 2009-2011.

Partner of European Concerted Research Action (COST) TU0801, project Semantic

enrichment of 3D city models for sustainable urban development, 2009-2012.

Web based INtelligent Design Support for Architecture and Civil Engineering, I.S.T.

Programme, Flexible University, V Framework, (IST–1999–10253)

Multimedia and Optimization for Virtual Engineering and Architecture, Leonardo da

Vinci Programme, (E/96/2/1656/PI/II1.1.c./FPC)

funStep Interest Group, FSIG ESPRIT Project, (EP 29711)

Coordinator of the research Unit of the project Information and Communication

Technologies for collaborative design, funded by the Ministry of University and

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first place “Truevision International Videographics Competition”, ACM Siggraph Las

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second place Eurographics Vienna

first place “Truevision International Videographics Competition”, Siggraph Chicago;

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second place al “Truevision International Videographics Competition”, Siggraph

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second and third place Eurographics Oslo

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Comparing Visioning Processes for Sustainable Turin Metropolitan Area

Prof. Luca Caneparo

Professional Background and Current Work Prof. Luca Caneparo has been Director of the High Quality Laboratory-Territorial Integrated Project since it was set up in 2003 by the Politecnico di Torino and the Department of Architectural Design and Department of Territorial Studies and Planning in response to a project call, reviewed by an international panel. According to Lab’s mission statement, it «experiments the use of innovative technologies for analysis, simulation, modelling, representation and interaction to support the processes of design and the implementation of procedures for governance, planning and decision-making relating to the change in cities and regions». As Director, Luca Caneparo has followed up around thirty projects with local authorities (Municipal, Provincial, and Regional), for instance Simulation of scenarios on the Susa Valley, University sites and the future layout of the metropolitan area, Experimentation of innovative analysis, simulation, and representation technologies of the impact of the new European North-South Corridor through the Gottardo (cf. Curriculum Vitae). The Lab and its Director are currently working on the Turin Metropolitan area in cooperation with the 34 Municipalities involved and the Province, with a view to «experimenting and implementing innovative approaches to metropolitan challenges» (from the attached reference letter of Arch. Marta Levi, Councillor for Decentralisation and the Metropolitan Area, Municipality of Turin). The approaches adopted by the Lab are considered highly innovative as they are directed towards sharpening visions through the use of advanced computer-based models intended to support decision- and policy-makers, technicians and also businesses, citizens and groups, to inform, elevate and expand debate on what is desirable and possible for the sustainable development of the metropolitan area. «We urge ground-breaking methodologies and technologies to deal with metropolitan and decentralisation issues, as a holistic approach, interrelating compact urban form, intermodal transport, preserving ecosystems, and improving equity. All and every of these issues requires us long-term visioning approach: we appreciate the contribution of the Laboratory with advanced computer simulations to understand the interactions of activities and transportation in the time dimension, highlighting links between individuals’ decisions and governments’ policies and projects. The mission for the Lab is collecting the Municipalities’ trajectories of development, as either policies or plans (for instance pertaining social, demographic, economic, infrastructural transformations), and translating them into scenarios. We require these simulated scenarios not just to be insights into the next decades of the Metropolitan area, but becoming active tools for sharing visions, with the aim of crossing local governments (34 Municipalities) and jurisdictional competencies of Agencies/Councils within every Municipality, towards communities’ and citizens’ involvement.» (from the letter of the Councillor for Decentralisation and the Metropolitan Area).

Issues of Turin Metropolitan area In terms of process, the ongoing work with the Governments of the Turin Metropolitan area addresses four key issues:

a. Sustainable Plans, Projects, Visions Planning decisions, especially those about urban growth and infrastructure, can influence the directions of urban development and determine the local sustainability. To make sound decisions, it is critical to evaluate the effectiveness of infrastructural plans and projects and the robustness of urban planning strategies under different future perspectives. Scenarios and visions have emerged in EU and USA «as an effort to face key

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economic, social, environmental and growth issues in a manner that represents the values of the region’s residents and stakeholders» [Lurcott, 2005]. In the Turin Metropolitan area the planning and the visioning processes is the offshoot of the underlining question of the “local autonomies” which, in Italy, represented the earliest and most effective form of decentralisation to the Regions, Provinces and Municipalities. Principally land-use planning has been decentralised to the Municipalities: this local land-use autonomy and the degree of local responsiveness to planning opportunities are critical to shaping a sustainable metropolitan area. Some further major aspects of planning have proved to be difficult to manage on a municipal scale, notably infrastructures. In US, to what extent has visioning demonstrated its effectiveness as a tool to link land use and transportation and to offset the differences between the various scales of (local) governments?

b. Envisioning Tools The Lab supports the ongoing visioning process on Turin metropolitan area through the use of: Advanced computer modelling techniques, an integrated land use-transportation model for the 34 Municipalities supporting planning strategies. The model is utilised to assess and test alternative visions for the metropolitan area, with the aim to affect a shift toward more sustainable transportation through land use planning, and to promote efficient land use and economic growth through strategic transport investment. These aspects are considered crucial in the creation of sustainable Turin metropolitan: «to deal with metropolitan and decentralisation issues, as a holistic approach, interrelating compact urban form, intermodal transport, preserving ecosystems, and improving equity.» (quoted from the letter of the Councillor on Decentralisation and Metropolitan Area). The US visioning practices, grounding on integrated modelling, will be considered in the light of the mixed success of the land use-transport strategies, for fully understanding their potential and the assessed impacts. Different media for communication and interaction to promote dissemination and cooperation on the metropolitan scale. In visioning practices, the saying “a picture is worth a thousand words” can be interpreted in a variety of ways, but, generally, governments and agencies tend to avoid detailed representations of the future due to the intrinsic uncertainties of the forecasts and because detailed 3D representations could prove to be binding and restrictive; on the other hand a detailed 3D representation of the built environment is the most understandable and intuitive representation for the “the man in the street”. The US has a long track record of advanced computer-modelling and computer-visualisation at different scales: from the local up to the regional: “we have the ability to use 21st Century technology to look into the future and choose the most attractive paths.” [Chicago Metropolis 2020]. In recent years visualisation tools have been receiving increasing attention in the US: since the 2005 Federal Transportation Legislation has called upon planning agencies to use visualisation techniques in their processes. For the Turin Metropolitan area the US experiments may have positive repercussions on two series of issues: technological, i.e. how the models are defined and used, the data collected, the indicators defined, and the scenarios simulated; methodological, i.e. how the US experimentations have succeeded in balancing the contrasting requirements of large scale 2D plans and detailed 3D outlooks of cities/regions.

c. Metropolitan Governance The visioning processes lays the bases for consensual and cooperative governance. A decade of strategic planning in Turin Metropolitan area has revealed that priorities or plans have not always been shared and, on several occasions, friction towards consolidate decision-making processes, oriented to primacy and competition among stakeholders or decision-makers, has emerged. The US has consolidated a significant number of visioning processes (Appendix A). In many cases, these visioning processes have been voluntarily implemented by the participants, while in various cases they also recommended solutions that involve structural changes in local governments, as ways of aligning local interests with broader interests at metropolitan/regional scale.

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Such a rich, multi-varied panorama of governance processes represents a valuable legacy for the effective implementation of the visioning process to the Turin Metropolitan area. Certainly, the specific social and political dimensions of each case of governance studied must be considered, also taking into account the peculiar aspects of the individualities and organisations involved. In the proposed research, due consideration will be given to these dimensions in order to correlate them correctly with our specific context.

d. Complexity of the Government US visioning processes have deployed a number of strategies to stimulate changes in the government structure. For example, in several cases, the visioning have worked within the existing institutions (e.g. Utah, Florida), while in other cases they have fostered the creation of new institutions or mechanisms, either from the ground up or merging already existing (e.g. Chicago Metropolitan Plan). These strategies are of great importance for the Turin Metropolitan process. The pros and cons of each case, and also the related context, will be considered in order to evaluate the potential impact for Turin. Particular importance is attributed to US experiments on the interrelationship of Governments at different scales and to varying degrees: from single-tier regional government over the system of local control, juxtaposed to more neutral approaches based on veto over local decisions. As far as the architecture of governments and autonomies of the Turin and Italy are concerned, we consider that these institutional experiments are of great interests as effective “laboratories” in which government measures are tested and evaluated against their efficacy in political participation and “civic capacity” for tackling the metropolitan issues. «Certainly, from an international perspective we will benefit insights and directions on ideas and tools for supporting decision- and policy-making at the metropolitan extent, for embedding multijurisdictional issues, and catalysing for collaborations between local governments, public-private collaborations.» (quoted from the reference letter of the Councillor on Decentralisation and Metropolitan Area)

Goals and methodologies of the fellowship The goals of the fellowship reflects the questions posed in relation to each of the key issues considered above. To achieve these goals, the following methodology and phases are defined.

1. Collection Collecting and reviewing US visioning practice will create the bases for visioning of the Turin Metropolitan area, identifying the main subject matters that may have a positive effect on the local level practices. Working on a list of visioning practices aligned with the four issues and goals outlined above (i.e. visions, tools, governance, and government). The preliminary list is in the Appendix A, and will be narrowed or extended in collaboration with GMF CDP. These visioning practices will become the targets for the collection, the review and the evaluation. The fellowship will utilise Prof. Caneparo’s work on best visioning practices worldwide, consolidated with the Main Session Tools for Governance, Visioning and engaging the future at 2008 World Congress of Architecture, where those responsible for best practices presented and discussed their experiences, and the forthcoming book Future Cities and Regions. Simulation, Scenario and Visioning, Governance and Scales, editor Luca Caneparo et al. New York, Heidelberg: Springer (a synopsis of the book is provided in Appendix C). Furthermore, the research will utilise CPD network for collecting references, information and data on the practices. Before and during the collection, contacts are established with the project leaders, stakeholders and consultants responsible/involved in the visioning processes. The four targeted issues contributes to establishing the relevance and priority of every US project for the Turin Metropolitan area and to defining the projects that will be investigated in more depth at meetings with the project leaders. Further study of three projects (e.g. Boston, Chicago and San Francisco) is planned, also arranging meetings and interviews.

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2. Review The visioning practices will be reviewed according to the four issues adressed:

2.1 Sustainable Plans, Projects, Visions Impact of the visions on multijurisdictional areas: «There is not even a single unit of government, let alone a specific agency, with the authority to make all of the changes that need to be made. Achieving the vision of the Chicago Metropolis Plan will require policy changes at every level of government.» [Chicago Metropolis 2020]. The visioning practices will be reviewed in order to identify the role played with the various local authorities, analysing the tools used, such as the interrelationships with plans and projects. If the visioning states a desired or future environment for a city/region, what role has played plans and projects in managing this desired or planned sustainable environment? What are the best practices that have demonstrated innovative in the strategies on the interaction between land use and transport, specially aimed at the sustainability of metropolitan areas?

2.2 Envisioning Tools Visioning practices in the US have tested various tools for diverse purposes and at different extents. To measure the potential of these tools with regard to the Turin Metropolitan action, the different aspects of the technologies (as indicated above, how the models are defined and used, the data collected, the indicators defined, and the scenarios simulated) and of the methodologies, in particular the methods to communicate within the local authorities and with a broader audience, will be examined. For every case considered, the fellowship will attempt to identify its milieu, according to political, social, economical or cultural dimensions, and to answer to some framing questions: What does the practices teach about the relationship between the built environment and transportation? How do models contribute to assessing the effectiveness of the plans or visions? What planning interventions exist that intend to leverage the land use-transport interaction? What priorities remain unmatched?

2.3 Metropolitan Governance and Complexity of the Government Governance and government are crucial to the success of any visioning process. For the Turin Metropolitan, particular attention will be directed towards reviewing the processes of governance and the structures of government that are peculiar to any visioning practice, with regard to their structure, successes and challenges, with the aim of potential valuable exchange and learning for the Turin practice. To achieve this aim, the characteristics of the US cases, including geographical and also further dimensions, such as socio-political, the number and heterogeneity of stakeholders involved in the practice, leadership, public management, citizen involvement, will be considered. Key questions are: What lessons can be drawn from comparison of different approaches to metropolitan governance and government, regional and municipal finance, community development and local democracy? What experiences exists of neighbourhood management, governance and engaging the private sector in new kinds of public/private partnership? These aspects and questions are relevant to all the practices and have implications for successful application beyond a local, specific context. A product of this phase is a report illustrating each visioning process considered and highlighting its governance and government structure. The report is intended for Italian local administrators, in particular those of Turin involved in dealing with similar issues. To this end, the report will include a “How-To” section on best successful practices in governance and government being implemented in US. Excerpts from this report are being considered for publication in the forthcoming book Future Cities and Regions. Simulation, Scenario and Visioning, Governance and Scales, editor Luca Caneparo et al. New York, Heidelberg: Springer.

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3. Modelling the knowledge in a practice A US visioning project is selected from those targeted according to its potential for application in the Turin context. This project is proposed to gather and model the relevant part of its knowledge with Knowledge-Based Engineering (KBE) technology which our Laboratory has implemented and tested in the specific domain of urban and regional planning (Caneparo, 2007). Knowledge-Based Engineering makes it possible to understand not only the set of procedures and mechanisms specific to the case considered, which may, to some degree, be peculiar to the institutional, social or economic framework, but also the knowledge required and developed for the regional visioning process. Although a minor part of this knowledge is explicit, i.e. in acts, policies, plans, programs, codes or regulations, the major part is implicit in the practices of a plurality of actors of the process, for example of decision-makers technicians, stakeholders and communities. KBE technology has demonstrated its effectiveness in structuring and recording knowledge so that this can be reused, transferred and expanded. The reuse and ease of transfer of knowledge will help to meet the demand to apply procedures and policies to diverse contexts, even radically different from those in which they were conceived and put into practice.

3.1 Distinctions/similarities between US and Turin contexts (This goal and phase is not part of the Fellowship proposal, because it carried out mainly in Turin; however, it is mentioned and put forward as it is considered both relevant and integrant part of the value added for the proposer’s community and the professional domain.) The knowledge base modelled from the US best practice will be experimented within the Turin Metropolitan visioning process. As KBE assures reusability, transferability and expandability of the knowledge, it is expected that a significant portion of the knowledge modelled within the US case could be relevant for the local context. Namely, the experimentation is expected to highlight the distinctions/similarities between the two contexts, in US and Turin, as regards political, social, economical or cultural aspects. According to these distinctions/similarities, KBE will facilitate the recognition of aspects of the modelled governance process and government structure more suitable for the context of Turin.

4. Dissemination Strategy For Turin Metropolitan visioning process, the Laboratory, which cooperates with the Municipalities and the Province, will implement and test the envisioning tools (cf. 2.) that will emerge to be both innovative and appropriate for the local metropolitan issues. Prof. Caneparo, as Director of the Lab, is committed to developing these tools and to tailoring them to the peculiarities of the Turin context. US visioning processes, considered interesting - suitable for the Turin context, will be presented and discussed with the local administrators and the stakeholders. Workshops will be also part of the strategy to support the dissemination of the fellowship outcomes, designed to maximise their impact on the local practices, highlighting governance process and government structures. Several Turin Metropolitan Governments have demonstrated a keen interest to innovation (cf. reference letter of Councillor on Decentralisation and Metropolitan Area): effective impact is more likely when successful cases show the ways and the advantages (as well as the challenges), because cases are easy to understand and apply. Moreover, recent changes in the Regional Law (L.R. N° 1) enforces co-planning Conferences for the procedure of “structural variants” to plans. To implement and enforce this Law, the local authorities are already oriented to consider the capabilities of visioning for interpreting the Conferences. To this end, both the workshops and the report will present a “How-To” section on best practices in governance and government being implemented in US. The report will be produced, addressing Italian local administrators, in particular Turin ones. Excerpts from this report may be published in the forthcoming book Future Cities and Regions. Simulation, Scenario and Visioning, Governance and Scales, editor Luca Caneparo et al. New York, Heidelberg: Springer.

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Finally, the experiment on modelling the knowledge of a US visioning practice will be published in papers for the Letter of the Municipality and for an international planning journal. Besides, the knowledge base modelled and the tool to browse it will be posted on the Internet.

Timeline

The chart details the timeline of the phases from November 2009 to May 2010.

Nov-09 Dec-09 Feb-10 Apr-10 May-10

4. Dissemination Strategy

3.1 Distinctions/similarities between contexts

3. Modelling the knowledge in a practice

2.3 Metropolitan Governance, Complexity of the Government

2.2 Envisioning Tools

2.1 Sustainable Plans, Projects, Visions

2. Review

1. Collection

Timeline of the phases

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Preliminary list of the visioning practices

APPENDIX A The preliminary list is of the visioning practices, fulfilling the four issues and goals considered (i.e. visions, tools, governance, and government), consists of (alphabetically): • Austin area, Envision Central Texas; • Baltimore Vision 2030, Baltimore Metro Council; • Boston Metro Regional Visioning Project; • Chicago Metropolis 2020, in The Metropolis Plan: Choices for the Chicago Region; • Florida 2060, 1000 Friends of Florida; • Florida, Tampa Bay Region Vision; • Great Salt Lake and Wasatch Area, Envision Utah; • Northeastern Illinois Envisioning 2040, in Regional Framework Plan; • Portland Metro 2040 Framework; • Sacramento Area Council of Governments, Sacramento Blueprint; • San Francisco Area, Smart Growth Strategy. Shaping the Future o f the Nine-County Bay Area.

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References

APPENDIX B Boyd, Susan; Chan, Roy. Placemaking tools for community action. CONCERN, 2002. Brail, Richard K. Planning support systems for cities and regions. Cambridge (MA): New Lincoln Institute, 2008. Downs, Anthony. New Visions for Metropolitan America. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1994. Hopkins, Lewis D.; Zapata, Marisa A. Engaging the Future: Forecasts, Scenarios, Plans, and Projects. Cambridge (MA): New Lincoln Institute, 2007. Kwartler, Michael; Longo, Gianni. Visioning and Visualization: People, Pixels, and Plans. Cambridge (MA): New Lincoln Institute, 2008. Lurcott, Robert. Regional Visioning Public Participation. Best Practices. Sustainable Pittsburgh. 2005. Myron, Orfield. Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1998. Savitch, H.V; Vogel, Ronald. “Paths to new regionalism”, in State and Local Government Review, 12, pp. 158-168, 2000.

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ASSESSORE DECENTRAMENTO, AREA METROPOLITANA, PARI OPPORTUNITA’, TEMPI E ORARI, POLITICHE GIOVANILI

Prot. 787/T.1.16.4

Torino, 17 July 2009

Comparative Domestic Policy

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USA To whom it may concern, It is with great conviction that I introduce the collaboration between LAQ-TIP Laboratory, Directed by Prof. Luca Caneparo, and the Council on Decentralisation and Metropolitan Area of the Turin Municipality. The cooperation with the Laboratory focuses on experimenting and implementing innovative approaches to metropolitan challenges. Because of the scale and extent of these challenges, we urge ground-breaking methodologies and technologies to deal with metropolitan and decentralisation issues, as a holistic approach, interrelating compact urban form, intermodal transport, preserving ecosystems, and improving equity. All and every of these issues requires us long-term visioning approach: we appreciate the contribution of the Laboratory with advanced computer simulations to understand the interactions of activities and transportation in the time dimension, highlighting links between individuals’ decisions and governments’ policies and projects. The mission for the Lab is collecting the Municipalities’ trajectories of development, as either policies or plans (for instance pertaining social, demographic, economic, infrastructural transformations), and translating them into scenarios. We require these simulated scenarios not just to be insights into the next decades of the Metropolitan area, but becoming active tools for sharing visions, with the aim of crossing local governments (34 Municipalities) and jurisdictional competencies of Agencies/Councils within every Municipality, towards communities’ and citizens’ involvement. Certainly, from an international perspective we will benefit insights and directions on ideas and tools for supporting decision- and policy-making at the metropolitan extent, for embedding multijurisdictional issues, and catalysing for collaborations between local governments, public-private collaborations. To this aim, I esteem LAQ-TIP Director, Prof. Luca Caneparo, because of his experience and background, he can positively analyse international experiences and interpret them for our local context. If you need further facts, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Sincerely,

POLITECNICO DI TORINO

IL DIRETTORE DEL DIPARTIMENTO Liliana Bazzanella

Politecnico di Torino – Dipartimento di Progettazione Architettonica e di Disegno industriale Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 – 10129 Torino Italia tel: +39 011 564 6501 fax: +39 011 564 6599 e-mail: direttore.dipra@polito.it url: www.polito.it/dip/dipra/ D

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To whom it may concern:

I reply with great pleasure to the request for references about Prof. Luca Caneparo, in connection with his application at the Comparative Domestic Policy.

I have had the opportunity of appreciating the professional distinctive qualifications of Prof. Caneparo from when he started working at our Department in 2001. His professional preparation, constantly brought up to date and grounded on solid theoretical and technical bases has been successfully put to the test, at both a national and an international level.

It is as a result of the preparation and the willingness of Prof. Caneparo to experiment into the most challenging aspects of design, planning and policy that has led to the setting up of the High Quality Laboratory-Territorial Integrated Project at Turin Polytechnic.

Under the supervision of the Scientific Committee and myself, and with Prof. Caneparo in complete technical charge, this Laboratory, though set up only a few years ago, has already succeeded in undertaking important commissions from local administrations, public and private institutions.

At the same time Prof. Caneparo intelligently sensed the developments that the techniques experimented on and developed by him in the Laboratory might have in the professional field.

In this field, thanks to his gifts of enterprise and management ability, he has been able to construct a web of cooperation locally, nationally and internationally.

In the course of his activities Prof. Caneparo has often had to operate within complex structures, some of which have also had different historical and cultural bases. The originality of his work, his creativity and the complete independence with which he has worked have always characterised his work and have been recognised by the institutions with which he has collaborated.

I must also emphasise the notable ability in leadership and management shown by Luca Caneparo in the formation and co-ordination of a work-group of about ten young collaborators who are currently working in the Laboratory. He has shown, in fact, from the beginning of his activity, the concern of leveraging competencies, particularly in support to innovative practices.

I hope I have replied, even if briefly, to your requests for references. If you need further details, please do not hesitate to contact me.

With best wishes,

Head of the Department

March 6, 2008 School of Resource Management and Geography, University of Melbourne, 221 Bouverie Street, Carlton, Victoria, 3010, Australia TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: This is to certify that Luca Caneparo is well known around the world as a truly innovative researcher. I first met Luca in the early 1990’s at an international conference on Decision Support Systems that was organized by the University of Eindhoven at Vaals in the Netherlands. Luca presented a most interesting paper there, and it was well received by the audience. Subsequently, I have taken an interest in his work at the Turin Polytechnic. Luca displays considerable energy, and he works at the absolute research frontier of his discipline. Moreover, he has been a pioneer in terms of applying computerized, visualization methods to real-world, urban and environmental design problems in participative, stakeholder-oriented environments. Luca Caneparo’s most striking characteristic is his fearlessness in the face of new technology, and his adventurous approach has made him a leading early adopter in the area of practical, three dimensional plotting and rendering. Accordingly, his group in Turin has come up with several new contributions over the years and this has been reflected in publications, by Luca and his colleagues, in such high-impact journals as Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (CEUS). I strongly recommend that Luca Caneparo be granted recognition for his contributions over a sustained period. I am willing to supply further information on request. Yours sincerely,

……………………… (Dr) Ray Wyatt Associate Professor ray.wyatt@unimelb.edu.au

POLITECNICO DI TORINO

IL DIRETTORE DEL DIPARTIMENTO Liliana Bazzanella

Politecnico di Torino – Dipartimento di Progettazione Architettonica e di Disegno industriale Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 – 10129 Torino Italia tel: +39 011 564 6501 fax: +39 011 564 6599 e-mail: direttore.dipra@polito.it url: www.polito.it/dip/dipra/ D

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Subject: Prof. Caneparo’s Absence from the Department. As Head of the Department and President of the High Quality Laboratory-Territorial Integrated Project I value the theme of the proposed research, Comparing Visioning Processes for Sustainable Turin Metropolitan Area, to German Marshall Fund Comparative Domestic Policy, therefore I appreciate Prof. Luca Caneparo spending up to half a year in the US for the Fellowship. Kind regards,

Head of the Department