Curriculum

Valerio Cutini

Full Professor at the University of Pisa
Department of Engineering of Energy, Systems, Territory and Buildings – DESTeC
Largo Lazzarino, 1
56126 Pisa (Italy)
e-mail: valerio.cutini@unipi.it
URL https://people.unipi.it/valerio_cutini/

 
Professional career and education
  • 2018-present: Full Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Pisa (Italy).
  • 2014-2017: Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Pisa (Italy).
  • 1996-2013: Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Pisa (Italy).
  • 1992-1994: Post-Doctoral scholarship in Urban and Regional Planning, University of Pisa (Italy)
  • 1994-1996: Post-Doctoral scholarship in Urban and Regional Planning, University of Pisa (Italy)
  • 1987-1991: PhD in Building and Urban Engineering, University of Bologna (Italy).
  • 1980–1986: Master in Civil Engineering, University of Pisa (Italy).
    Specialization: Building Engineering, Urban and Regional Planning.
  • 1974-1979: Classical High School Diploma, Liceo-Ginnasio Carducci-Ricasoli, Grosseto (Italy).
 
Academic teaching
  • 1996-present: University of Pisa – Graduate program in Civil Engineering, Master program in Building Engineering and Architecture –
  • 2016-2018: University of Pisa – Master program in Building Information Modelling – BIM Manager
  • 2012-2013: University of Pisa – Master program in Environmental Law
  • 2011-2012: University of Pisa – Master program in Participation and Decision Making in Territorial Planning
  • 2006-2007: University of Pisa – Master program in Methods and Techniques for Territorial Planning
  • 2005-2007: University of Pisa – Master program in Geographic Information Systems
  • 2004-2008: University of Pisa – Master program in Environmental Communication
  • 2001-2006: University of Pisa – PhD program in Sciences and Methods for European Cities and Territory
  • 2015-2023: Université de la Côte d’Azur, Nice (France) – Master program ‘Engineers for Smart Cities’
  • 2012-2013: University of Naples Federico II – PhD program of Hydraulic, Transport and Territorial Systems
  • 2012-2013: University of Chieti and Pescara Gabriele D’Annunzio – Federico II: PhD program in Architecture and Town Planning
  • 2010-2016: Politecnico of Milan – Master program in Town Planning and Analysis of Urban and Territorial Systems
  • 2009-2011: Accademia di Architettura of Mendrisio (CH) – Master program in Quantitative Methods for Territorial Analysis
  • 2002-2009: Accademia di Architettura of Mendrisio (CH) – Master program in Mathematics and Territory. Growth of Urban Systems. Interaction Models of Architecture and Environment
  •  2005: Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) – Visiting Professor at the Tauban College of Architecture
  • 2001-2002: Politecnico of Milan – Master program in Environmental Planning
 
Research activity

Main research themes: spatial analysis and modelling of urban space, urban morphology, knowledge tools applied to urban modelling

The research activity disseminated through publications (66 articles on peer-reviewed scientific journals, 7 scientific books, 85 chapters in scientific books or proceedings of international conferences), several symposia and conferences, as well as research projects and third mission activities (research results transferring outside the academic community), the latest here listed below.

 
Recent publications (2020-)
  1. Del Carlo F, Bianchini G, Altafini D, Caprili S, CUTINI V (2025) The Role of Urban Configuration in the Pre-Emergency and Post-Emergency Seismic Management Phase. International Journal of Architectural Heritage, pp. 1-22.
  2. Hacar M, Altafini D, CUTINI V (2024) Network-Based Hierarchical Feature Augmentation for Predicting Road Classes in OpenStreetMap. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 13(12):456, pp. 1-20.
  3. Mara F, CUTINI V (2024) The environmental approach to security: a historical-theoretical literature review on space and crime. Planning Theory & Practice, pp. 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2024.2415552.
  4. Altafini D, CUTINI V (2024) Spatial attractiveness towards industrial placement: a parametric index based on spatial-economic territorial exposure metrics. TeMA – Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 17 (1), pp. 89-108.
  5. CUTINI V (2024) The weak ties that bind a city: ‘to see bridges where others see holes’. In: Charalambous N, Psathiti C, Geddes I (eds.) Proceedings of the 14th Space Syntax Symposium. Nicosia, Cyprus, 2213-2136.
  6. Altafini D, Braga A, Musolino D, CUTINI V (2024) Configurational aftereffects of a stable connection across the Messina Strait: How a bridge transforms the Italian road-circulation network movement patterns. In: Charalambous N, Psathiti C, Geddes I (eds.) Proceedings of the 14th Space Syntax Symposium. Nicosia, Cyprus, 3453-3488.
  7. Hacar M, Öztürk Hacar O, Altafini D, Pappalardo D, Gülgen F, CUTINI V (2024)From streets to screens: A deep dive into urban configuration and Google reviews. In: Charalambous N, Psathiti C, Geddes I (eds.) Proceedings of the 14th Space Syntax Symposium. Nicosia, Cyprus, 3201-3222.
  8. Mara F, Altafini D, Hacar M, Öztürk Hacar O, Gülgen F, CUTINI V (2024) Does time matter? Temporal Dynamics and Configurational Hierarchy in Pedestrian Movement. In: Charalambous N, Psathiti C, Geddes I (eds.) Proceedings of the 14th Space Syntax Symposium. Nicosia, Cyprus, 3139-3158.
  9. Mara F, Hacar M, Öztürk Hacar O, Altafini D, CUTINI V (2024) Exploring Spatial Crime Impedance to highlight risky places: A Space Syntax-based environmental approach to urban security. In: Charalambous N, Psathiti C, Geddes I (eds.) Proceedings of the 14th Space Syntax Symposium. Nicosia, Cyprus, 2819-2840.
  10. Mara F, Altafini D, Salardi Jost M, CUTINI V (2024) Visualising the Visibility Graph Analysis: A Comparative Analysis of VGA Metrics Representation and Significance at Micro-Urban Scale. In: Charalambous N, Psathiti C, Geddes I (eds.) Proceedings of the 14th Space Syntax Symposium. Nicosia, Cyprus, 2009-2022.
  11. Altafini D, Salardi Jost M, CUTINI V (2024) Decoding small-worlds networks in a regional context: unveiling local-local and local-global centrality logics with Space Syntax. In: Charalambous N, Psathiti C, Geddes I (eds.) Proceedings of the 14th Space Syntax Symposium. Nicosia, Cyprus, 1625-1658.
  12. Altafini D, Del Carlo F, Caprili S, CUTINI V (2024) A Territorial-Configurational Index to evaluate seismic spatial vulnerability in urban-regional settings: Integrating network configuration and redundancy to risk. In: Charalambous N, Psathiti C, Geddes I (eds.) Proceedings of the 14th Space Syntax Symposium. Nicosia, Cyprus, 1501-1530.
  13. Mara F, CUTINI V  (2024). Space Syntax vs Agent Based Modelling in the maze of urban complexity: a critical comparison between top-down and bottom-up approaches and applications. In Marucci A, et al. (eds.) Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning. INPUT 2023. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol. 467. Cham: Springer, 585-596.
  14. Hacar M, Mara F, Altafini D, CUTINI V  (2024). Preprocessing open data for optimizing estimation times in urban network analysis: extracting, filtering, geoprocessing, and simplifying the road-center lines. In Marucci A, et al. (eds.) Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning. INPUT 2023. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol. 467. Cham: Springer, 551-562.
  15. Mara F, Anselmi C, Deri F, CUTINI V  (2024). The spatial roots of urban dynamics: modeling urban dynamics with Space Syntax. In Gervasi O, et al. (eds.) Computational Science and its Applications – Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 14817. Cham: Springer, 61-76.
  16. Mara F, CUTINI V  (2023). Modeling crime dynamics and risky places: a basic combination of crime theories and Space Syntax to evaluate spatial crime impedance. In Gervasi O, et al. (eds.) Computational Science and its Applications – Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 14110. Cham: Springer, 227-243.
  17. Altafini D, Mara F, CUTINI V  (2023). A data-driven approach for a city-university Mobility Plan: the case of the University of Pisa. In Gervasi O, et al. (eds.) Computational Science and its Applications – Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 14111. Cham: Springer, 401-417.
  18. CUTINI V, Averbakh M, Demydiuk O (2023). Urban space at the time of the war. Configuration and visual image of Kharkiv (Ukraine).TeMA – Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 16(1), 7-26. https://doi.org/10.6093/1970-9870/9912
  19. CUTINI V (2023) Il divenire della disciplina urbanistica: il contributo di Valerio Cutini. TeMA – Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 1, pp. 85-86.
  20. Pezzica C, CUTINI V, Bleil de Souza C, Aloini D (2022) The making of cities after disasters. Strategic planning and the Central Italy temporary housing process. In: Cities, 131 (104053), pp. 1-19.
  21. Altafini D, Musolino D, Da Costa Braga A, CUTINI V (2022) Spatial configuration and the Messina Strait question: A discussion on Reggio-Calabria and Messina road-networks linkage. In: Applied geography, 146, pp. 1-16.
  22. Benameur O, Zemmouri M, , CUTINI V, Leccese F, Salvadori G (2022) Exploration of environmental noise in Saharian oases on the basis of urban configurations: city of Biskra datasets. In: Data in Brief, vol. 43 (2), 108392, pp. 1-12.
  23. CUTINI V (2022) Piano non finito e Piano non-finito: l’incompiuto nelle previsioni urbanistiche. In: Malfona L, Giorgetti L, Ruszezewski S (eds.) Unfinished. Sul non finito. Pisa: Pisa University Press, 68-75. 
  24. Mahfoud S, Bada Y, CUTINI V (2022) The impact of the urban structure on the public squares uses: a syntactic analysis.In:International Review for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development, vol. 10 (2), pp. 92-110.
  25. CUTINI V (2022) Cities at risk: spatial matrices of resilience and security. In: Territorio, vol. 97, DOI: 10.3280/TR2021-097010, pp. 77-84.
  26. Giuliani F, De Falco A, CUTINI V (2022) Rethinking earthquake-related vulnerabilities of historic centers in Italy: insights from the Tuscan area. In: Journal of Cultural Heritage, vol. 54, 102261, pp. 79-93.
  27. Pezzica C, Altafini D, CUTINI V (2022) Urban-regional dynamics of street network resilience The spatial outcomes of Genoa’s and Bologna’s bridge crashes. In: Van Nes A, De Koning R (eds.) Proceedings of the 13th Space Syntax Symposium. Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL), Bergen, Norway.
  28. Mara F, Altafini D, CUTINI V (2022) Urban design, space syntax and crime. An evidence-based approach to evaluate urban crime geographical displacement and surveillance efficiency. In: Van Nes A, De Koning R (eds.) Proceedings of the 13th Space Syntax Symposium. Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL), Bergen, Norway.
  29. Altafini D, Poloni F, Meini B, Bini D, CUTINI V (2022) Markov-Chain-based centralities and Space Syntax’ Angular Analysis: an initial overview and application. In: Van Nes A, De Koning R (eds.) Proceedings of the 13th Space Syntax Symposium. Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL), Bergen, Norway.
  30. Altafini D, CUTINI V (2022) Towards a Spatial Approach to Territorialize Economic Data in Urban Areas’ Industrial Agglomerations. In Gervasi O, et al. (eds.) Computational Science and its Applications – Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 13377. Cham: Springer, 370-386.
  31. Mara F, CUTINI V (2022). Digital City-Surveillance Models and Urban Security: Integrating Isovist and Space Syntax in Realising Adaptive Decision Support Systems. In Gervasi O, et al. (eds.) Computational Science and its Applications – Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 13377. Cham: Springer, 353-369.
  32. Altafini D, Da Costa Braga A, CUTINI V (2022) Twin-cities over the Messina Strait : a discussion on Reggio Calabria and Messina road-networks linkage. In: Annual Conference Proceedings of the XXVIII International Seminar on Urban Form. University of Strathclyde Publishing, Glasgow, pp. 821-828.
  33. Altafini D, Da Costa Braga A, CUTINI V (2022). The influence of industrial complexes morphology on industrial placement. In AA.VV., Cities as Assemblages – Proceedings of the XXVI International Seminar on Urban Form 2019, vol. 3. 440-450.
  34. CUTINI V, Rusci S (2022). Uso, consumo e riuso: l’insostenibile reversibilità del costruire. In: Arcidiacono A, Di Simine D, Ronchi S, Salata S (eds.) Consumo di suolo, servizi ecosistemici e green infrastructures: metodi, ricerche e progetti innovativi per incrementare il capitale naturale e migliorare la resilienza urbana. Roma: INU Edizioni, 72-76.
  35. Altafini D, Da Costa Braga A, CUTINI V (2022). The influence of industrial complexes morphology on industrial placement. In AA.VV., Cities as Assemblages – Proceedings of the XXVI International Seminar on Urban Form 2019, vol. 3. 440-450.
  36. CUTINI V (2021). Alla ricerca della sintassi dello spazio urbano. Fondamenti concettuali e percorsi evolutivi. In: Albeverio S, Giordano P, Vancheri A (eds.) Metodi e modelli matematici per le dinamiche urbane. Cham: Springer, 249-282.
  37. CUTINI V (2021) Cities at risk: spatial matrices of resilience and security, Territorio, vol. 97,pp. 77-84.
  38. CUTINI V (2021) Cities at the time of Covid; and after. In: Scienze Regionali, vol. 3/2021, 1720-3929 DOI: 10.14650/101718, pp. 91-98.
  39. CUTINI V, Rusci S (2021) The virus was already among us. Temporary and permanent effectsof Covid19 on cities. In: Scienze Regionali, vol. 3/2021, 1720-3929 DOI: 10.14650/101723, pp.107-114.
  40. CUTINI V, Altafini D (2021) Territorial disparities in Tuscan industrial assets: a model to assess agglomeration and exposure patterns. In: TeMA – Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, v. 14, n. 2, DOI: 10.6092/1970-9870/7976, pp. 161-176.
  41. Giuliani F, De Falco A, CUTINI V (2021) Unpacking seismic risk in Italian historic centres: A critical overview for disaster risk reduction. In: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, vol. 59, 102261, pp. 1-15.
  42. CUTINI V (2021) Le debolezze della pianificazione debole. In: Scienze Regionali, vol. 1/2021, 1720-3929 DOI: 10.14650/97108, pp. 107-114.
  43. Giuliani F, De Falco A, CUTINI V, Di Sivo M (2021) A simplified methodology for risk analysis of historic centers: the world heritage site of San Gimignano, Italy. In: International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, 1759-5908 DOI: 10.1080/13563475.2021.1875810, pp. 1-19.
  44. Altafini D, Braga A, CUTINI V, (2021) Planning sustainable urban-industrial configurations: relations among industrial complexes and the centralities of a regional continuum. In: International Planning Studies, DOI: 10.1080/13563475.2021.1875810, pp. 1- 21.
  45. CUTINI V, Pezzica C (2021) Linking space syntax and cluster analysis to design and plan temporary housing neighborhoods: A taxonomy of sites in Norcia. In: Journal of Design for Resilience in Architecture and Planning, vol. 2, Special Issue, pp. 89-114.
  46. CUTINI V, Di Pinto V (2021) The inner geography of hill-top towns. A discussion on the effects of altimetry on configuration. In: Forma Civitatis: International journal of urban and territorial morphological studies (IJUTMS), vol. 1, N. 1, pp. 26-44.
  47. Pezzica C, CUTINI V, Bleil de Sousa C (2020) Mind the gap: state of the art on decision-making related to post-disaster housing assistance. In: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 101975, pp. 1-35.
  48. CUTINI V, Altafini D, (2020) Homothetic Behavior of Betweenness Centralities: A Multiscale Alternative Approach to Relate Cities and Large Regional Structures, Sustainability, vol. 12, 7925, pp. 1-19.
  49. CUTINI V, Pezzica C (2020) Street Network Resilience Put to the Test: The Dramatic Crash of Genoa and Bologna Bridges, Sustainability, vol. 12, 4706, pp. 1-20.
  50. CUTINI V, Giuliani F, De Falco A, (2020) The role of urban configuration during disasters. A scenario-based methodology for the post-earthquake emergency management of Italian historic centres, Safety Science, vol. 127, pp. 1-18.
  51. CUTINI V, Di Pinto V, Rinaldi A M, Rossini F (2020) Proximal Cities: Does Walkability Drive Informal Settlements?, Sustainability, vol. 12, 756, pp. 1-20.
  52. CUTINI V, Altafini D (2020). Tuscany configurational atlas: a GIS-based multiscale assessment of road-circulation networks centralities hierarchies. In: Gervasi O et al. (Eds) Computational Science and its Applications, Lecture notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer Nature, p. 291-306.
 
 
Recent scientific conferences (2020-)
  • 14th International Space Syntax Symposium (13SSS), Nicosia, Cyprus, 20-24 June 2024
  • 24th International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2024), Hanoi, Vietnam, 1-4 July 2024
  • 3rd International Architectural Sciences and Applications IArcSAS, Naples, 14-15 September 2023 – key note speaker
  • 12th International Conference on Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning (INPUT 2023), 
L’Aquila, 6-8 September 2023
  • 23rd International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2023), Athens, Greece, 3-6 July 2023
  • 2nd International Conference on Space Syntax, Sétif, 7-8 December 2022
  • 12th International Conference on Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning (INPUT 2022), 
Cagliari, 9-11 September 2022
  • 22nd International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2021), Malaga, Spain, 13-15 September 2022
  • 13th International Space Syntax Symposium (13SSS), Bergen, Norway, 20-24 June 2022
  • 1st Nobel X Urbanism Conference, Oslo, Norway, 8-10 December 2021
  • XXIII Conferenza Nazionale SIU Società Italiana degli Urbanisti, Turin, 17-18 June 2021
  • 21st International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA2021), Cagliari, 13-16 September 2021
  • 11th International Conference on Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning (INPUT 2021), Catania, 8-10 September 2021
  • XXVIII International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF2019), Glasgow (UK), 29 June – 3 July 2021
  • 1st International Space Syntax Workshop (1SSW), Biskra (Algeria), 16-18 February 2020
  • 5th International Symposium on Formal Methods in Architecture (5FMA), Lisbon, Portogallo, 13-16 October 2020
 
Recent research projects and contracts with public institutions (2020-)
  • 2023-2026 – Driving Urban Transition (DUT) European Project – The Evolutive Meshed Compact City. A pragmatic transition pathway to the 15-minutes City for European metropolitan peripheries.

         – financing institution: MUR

         – principal investigator Partner 3: Valerio Cutini
 
  • 2020-2023 – Master Plan and Urban Regulation of the Municipality of Viareggio for the redevelopment of the Southern urban edge – Darsena district

         – financing institution: Municipality of Viareggio

         – scientific coordinator: Valerio Cutini
 
  • 2022 – Sustainable Mobility Plan of the University of Pisa

         – financing institution: University of Pisa

         – scientific coordinator: Valerio Cutini 
 
  • 2020 – Construction of the opensource database Geographic Information System for the activities management plan

         – financing institution: Consorzio 4 Basso Valdarno – Regione Toscana

         – scientific coordinator: Valerio Cutini
 
  • 2020 – Training programme for the computer and technological knowledge for territorial data management

         – financing institution: Consorzio 4 Basso Valdarno – Regione Toscana

         – scientific coordinator: Valerio Cutini