AirMAP was developed in response to the need to fill a gap in the information available regarding the expansion and historical evolution of short-term rentals facilitated by Airbnb in Italy. Institutional databases are often fragmented or incomplete, making it difficult for public decision-makers to assess the true scale of the phenomenon. The project aims to overcome these limitations by utilising datasets from AirDNA.

 

The FULL research centre has developed a bespoke database covering sixteen urban contexts, with the aim of producing a systematic and comparative mapping of the phenomenon, and has engaged and coordinated research teams from leading Italian universities, each dedicated to a specific city. For the first time, a range of diverse urban settings are being analysed using the same methodological approach, enabling a scientific comparison between different contexts. A report covering the whole of Italy has been produced, along with one for each of the following cities:

 

• Northern Italy: Bergamo, Genoa, Milan, Padua, Turin, Trieste, Venice.
• Central Italy: Bologna, Florence, Rome.
• Southern Italy and the Islands: Bari, Cagliari, Catania, Naples, Palermo, Reggio Calabria.

The analysis is structured across three geographical levels, derived from the relevant Local Labour Market System (Sistema Locale del Lavoro – SLL): the metropolitan capital (CM), the other municipalities within the SLL (OM), and the entire SLL as a single aggregate. The reports combine aggregated annual data (2017–2024) and monthly data for the most recent year (2024), including supply and demand indicators such as nights booked, beds, active units, average nightly rate, occupancy rate and revenue per unit and per host. The analysis also includes the spatial classification of listings in OM municipalities and CM cities.

 

A specific section is devoted to the professionalisation of the accommodation offering, through the classification of hosts into three categories: small hosts (1–2 properties managed), medium hosts (3–10 properties) and large hosts (10 or more properties). Finally, each report includes a thematic appendix compiled by the local research group, aimed at interpreting specific local dynamics.

Research groups involved:

• BARI – Mariella Annese, Fabrizio Di Alessandro, Gianfranco Viesti (Politecnico Bari)
• BOLOGNA – Alessandro Bozzetti, Silvia Bartolucci (UniBologna)
• CAGLIARI – Abir Benfradj, Michele Campagna, Laura Tolu (UniCagliari)
• CATANIA – Eliana Fischer, Teresa Graziano, Laura Saija (UniCatania)
• FLORENCE – Marco Bellandi, Alice Calamandrei, Giulia Chiara Ceresa, Valentina D’Ippolito, Federico Martellozzo, Camilla Perrone, Massimo Tofanelli (UniFirenze)
• GENOA – Lorenzo Barbanera, Emanuele Cinti, Igor Costarelli, Niccolò Morelli, Francesca Zagagni (UniGenova)
• MILAN – Silvia Mugnano, Valeria Marina Borodi, Riccardo Ramello (University of Milano-Bicocca)
• NAPLES – Gaia del Giudice, Cristina Mattiucci (UniNapoli – Federico II), Cecilia Pasquinelli (UniNapoli Parthenope)
• PADUA – Francesco Mauro, Lorenza Perini, Michelangelo Savino (UniPadova)
• PALERMO – Chiara Giubilaro, Marco Picone (UniPalermo)
• REGGIO CALABRIA – Benedetta Chiaro, Angelo Chiaro, Gabriella Pultrone (UniReggio Calabria)
• ROME – Antonia Astore, Carlo Cellammare (UniRoma – Sapienza), Luca Tricarico (CNR)
• TRIESTE – Elena Marchigiani, Valentina Novak, Andrea Peraz (UniTrieste)
• VENICE – Matteo Basso, Gianfranco Pozzer (IUAV), Giacomo-Maria Salerno (UniSiena)

The project was presented at a conference in Turin on 22 May 2026, and the reports are available in the RESOURCES section of the website.

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She is currently a PhD Candidate with a dedicated scholarship focusing on the topic “Urban Digital Twin and scenario planning. Challenges and paths for exploration”. Her academic journey began with a Bachelor’s Degree, awarded with honors, followed by a Master’s Degree in Sustainable Design, obtained from the Politecnico di Torino in 2019, and a Master in Ecodesign – I.O.T., Lifecycle & Urban Regeneration. She has further enriched her education with international experiences, having been awarded two Erasmus grants.

Over the years, she developed a strong interest in the digital field, where she gained significant research experience as a Research Fellow at the ISPC – CNR (Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale – Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. There, she conducted studies and developments in the field of Digital Twins.

Her Doctoral research combines her expertise as an architect with technological innovation, focusing on the application of “Urban Digital Twins” to create urban scenarios that assist stakeholders in managing and optimizing urban processes.

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Specifically, HACKERARE M0N0P0L1 is an expansion (consisting of new cards, tokens, and markers) which, when used together with the classic version of Monopoly, transforms the latter into a game that combines a playful dimension with an educational/informative component. The ‘hacking’ operation affects both the software and hardware of Monopoly (i.e., both the rules and components such as the ‘Chance’ and ‘Community Chest’ cards), making the game dynamics more relevant to the real processes affecting contemporary cities. For example, different starting conditions are established (some players start with only a modest amount of money, others have a lot of money and a property with a house on it, others own a chain of hotels, and so on); by rewriting the “Chance” and “Community Chest” cards, events are proposed that reflect realistic situations or public policies (for example, processes such as studentification or privatization of real estate assets); by “redefining” certain squares on the board, elements are introduced that allude to the real structure of the real estate sphere (for example, the residual presence of public housing) and the social sphere (for example, each time a player completes a lap and passes GO, they receive a different salary depending on their starting condition).

How to obtain the game

HACKERARE M0N0P0L1 is a non-profit project, created for educational and training purposes and protected by a Creative Commons Licence 4.0 BY-NC-SA. It is distributed free of charge in two forms:

1- the various components of the game (i.e. the new cards, the new rulebook and the ‘Small Dictionary of Housing Issues’ booklet) are freely downloadable from this page and can be printed with a simple home printer.

2- a limited number of packs of the game have been produced, available to those who intend to use it for educational or training purposes (e.g. secondary and high school teachers, university lecturers, activists* of social movements for the right to housing). Anyone wishing to receive a free box of the game (while stocks last; new boxes will be printed through the crowdfunding campaign indicated below) is invited to contact: francesco.chiodelli@unito.it

Anyone who would like to receive a pack of the game for individual use can participate by donating to the crowdfunding campaign: https://sostieni.link/38980

The printed pack of HACKERARE M0N0P0L1 contains: 6 people cards; 6 discrimination cards; 6 tokens; 4 ‘public housing’ markers; 1 ‘building abuse’ marker; 20 probability cards; 20 contingency cards; 3 ‘Contingency or probability?’ cards; rules; ‘Small dictionary of the housing issue’.

DOWNLOAD HERE THE FILES to print and play the game at home.

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A second training module entitled ‘Protecting the Future’, organised by PoliTO per il Sociale, will illustrate theories and practices on the themes of participation and co-design.

The addressees of the initiative are young administrators, under 35 or newly appointed, and young people under 29, in order to approach active citizenship paths by reducing the gap between politics and institutions, addressing topics that aim to increase passion for the common good, public commitment, value ethics and aimed at deepening topical issues.

At the end of the cycle, FULL issues a report to summarise the themes and methods of the initiative, a charter of intentions with the motions expressed by the course participants to be submitted to the administration, and the four-episode podcast ‘Zeta’.

Course program

March 21, 2025 – Visions for a fairer future

• At OGR
• Loris Servillo, Mauro Fontana, Erica Mangione, Manuela Ronci – Polytechnic University of Turin/FULL
Presentation of the course program and objectives.
Lecture on the challenges of planning and managing contemporary cities and the importance of thinking about the city of the future in the context of the “just city,” in line with SDG 11 of the UN Agenda: “Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.”

March 28, 2025 – Regeneration of urban spaces & community spaces

• Presso Scuola primaria “G. Parini” – Corso Giulio Cesare 26
• Cristiana Rossignolo – Politecnico di Torino, Monica Postiglione e Anna Pratt – esperte della materia
Spazi di comunità come hub ibridi sociali-culturali.
• At the “G. Parini” Primary School – Corso Giulio Cesare 26
• Cristiana Rossignolo – Turin Polytechnic, Monica Postiglione and Anna Pratt – experts in the field
Community spaces as hybrid social-cultural hubs.
The presentation will explore the role of urban regeneration of common goods in Italy, analyzing approaches, policies, and tools available to cities and citizens. We will start from the experience of community spaces as cultural hubs, highlighting their impact on urban dynamics and social and institutional innovations. Within this framework, we will present the results of the SPAZI DI COMUNITÀ (COMMUNITY SPACES) research project, carried out in 2024 by NUVAP (Nucleo di Valutazione e Analisi per la Programmazione, Evaluation and Analysis Unit for Planning) at the Department for Territorial Cohesion of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, as part of the SI.VALUTA project. The research analyzed these practices at the national level, with a focus on significant experiences in the Turin area.

April 11, 2025 – Space justice and social justice in the transition towards fairer roads.

• At the Mollino Room of the Valentino Castle
• Gabriele D’Adda and Elisa Vitale – Polytechnic University of Turin/FULL
Reflections, starting from the “Just Streets” project, on spatial justice and social justice in the context of the transition to active and sustainable mobility and the creation of fairer streets. In order to make the transition from car-dominated streets to public spaces characterized by active mobility and a variety of uses, it is essential not only to take into account but also to prioritize the needs and visions of social groups that are often underrepresented in urban planning. A “critical walk” is planned in the pedestrianized area of San Salvario.

May 9, 2025 – Green/blue infrastructure and the environmental transition

• At OGR
• Manuela Ronci and Tymon Wolender – Polytechnic University of Turin/FULL
Strategic planning in river environments
The first part of the meeting will take the form of a lecture and will consist of a theoretical introduction, an overview of the evolution of the main planning approaches, and an in-depth analysis of international case studies, characterized by different focuses and scales of intervention.
The second part of the afternoon will be dedicated to workshop activities. Starting from a reflection on key issues in the transformation of urban river areas, related to the content of the lecture and applicable to the context of Turin, the workshop will aim to identify areas with regenerative potential and to develop macro-objectives/strategies/actions that could potentially be applied in the river areas of the city of Turin.

May 23, 2025 – Digital infrastructure

• At OGR and the nearby Energy Center
• Maria Ferrara – Polytechnic University of Turin/FULL/EST@EnergyCenter team
Digital Twin and climate city contract
The meeting aims to outline the potential offered by digital twins on an urban scale to support the design, implementation, and monitoring of sustainability policies for cities. In this regard, the European context will be analyzed, and in particular the response of pilot cities to the EU Mission “Climate Neutral and Smart Cities,” including the City of Turin. The meeting will conclude at the Decision Theater of the Energy Center of the Polytechnic University of Turin, with a demonstration of the current capabilities of the digital platform under development to support the drafting and monitoring of the Climate City Contract of the City of Turin, outlining its potential for further development and replicability in other urban contexts.

June 6, 2025 – Intangible culture – data and citizen science

• At Officine Creative (Cecchi Point)
• Sofia Fellini and Tommaso Listo, Polytechnic University of Turin/FULL
Data and citizen science
The meeting will be structured as follows: 1) a theoretical lesson on citizen science as a practice of knowledge construction and exchange between the public and institutions; 2) a visit to La Biblioteca dell’Aria, a citizen science project based at Officine Creative; 3) a workshop activity, in which participants will be asked to work in small groups and propose a possible citizen science project on issues relevant to their local areas, to be discussed collectively.

June 13, 2025 – Young people and public engagement

• At OGR
• Loris Servillo, Mauro Fontana, Erica Mangione, Manuela Ronci – Politecnico di Torino/FULL
Final lesson in which participants are guided through a review of the course content, with the aim of presenting their images of the city of the future through two in-person activities:
• Drafting a letter of intent to be presented to the City of Turin
• The creation of an informative podcast together with a radio communication expert

PROTECTING THE FUTURE – curated by PoliTO for Social Issues

June 19, 2025 – Theories and practices on participation and co-design
• At Castello del Valentino or online

June 26, 2025 – Practical workshop on participation and co-design
• At Valentino Castle

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Subsequently, the focus shifted to the Dora district, a residential area to the east of the consolidated city, on which the project explorations conducted allowed the municipality to plan and systemise a series of operations concerning new school services and the redevelopment of some public spaces.

Following the two punctual experiences, the administration then asked the working group, together with FULL, to produce a strategic vision document on the future of the city, to support the PRGC Reconsideration process, which is currently being drafted.

The research work, which is currently in progress, no longer considers only a few transformation areas, but aims to provide the city with a new interpretation of the ongoing urban dynamics, capable of placing the individual transformation operations within a coherent strategic framework, which integrates explorations on a micro-urban scale on some specific places of attention, such as the ‘South Gate’ of the city, the Megalithic Area, and the sports complexes.

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The European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation (EGTCs), established under EC Regulation 1082/2006, are the first European cooperation structures to be granted legal personality. They evolved from forms of cross-border cooperation started in the 1950s, and gained strategic importance with the Interreg programmes (1989) until the recognition of territorial cooperation as a macro-objective of European cohesion policy (2007).

The research focuses on the growing relevance of EGTCs in the post-pandemic context, where COVID-19 highlighted both the fragility of sub-national integration processes – with the unilateral closures of national borders – and the strengthening of a coordinated movement of border regions claiming specific recognition and greater dissemination of cross-border public services.

The project analyses the 14 EGTCs with Italian participation officially registered with the Committee of the Regions (out of a total of 88 in Europe), which are characterised by considerable territorial, institutional and functional heterogeneity. This diversity – ascribable to specific territorial characteristics, longevity, pursued objectives, governance models, funding sources and levels of integration – calls for a systematic analytical approach that has been lacking until now.

The multi-disciplinary methodology combines legal-institutional, territorial and strategic-functional analysis through four operational phases:

• preliminary framing with comprehensive mapping and structured questionnaires;
• comparative analysis with taxonomy and modelling;
• in-depth interviews with the 14 case studies;
• and the elaboration of policy-oriented recommendations for DARA.

FULL conducts the analysis of the territorial aspects of EGTCs, focusing on spatial dimensions, multi-level governance and operational performance. The research examines internal and external governance models, organisational and financial dynamics, contextualising them in the European territorial cooperation landscape. Particular attention is devoted to the litterature review, as well as to the identification of the distinctive features of the most effective experiences in order to gain an understanding of the factors that determine operational success or criticality.

The objective is to produce in-depth scientific knowledge of the legal, organisational and operational forms of the Italian EGTCs, developing taxonomies and systematic comparisons in order to identify performance improvement guidelines. The project also aims at facilitating the exchange of experiences and good practices among EGTCs, supporting DARA in the definition of policies and guidelines for ex-ante evaluations and future assessments.

The results will include a concluding scientific report with policy-oriented recommendations, operational guidelines for EGTCs, academic publications and a public presentation event. The dissemination activities will involve diversified stakeholders – EGTCs, local institutions, civil society, research centres – using the communication channels of the National Research Council – Institute for Studies on Regional, Federal and Autonomous Systems “Massimo Severo Giannini” (CNR ISSIRFA).

Thanks to ITALIAE, it will be possible to set up the first systematic study on Italian EGTCs, providing a solid empirical basis for evidence-based policies and scientific support for the strengthening of European territorial cooperation in a context of increasing cross-border challenges.

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Border regions in the ESPON (European Spatial Planning Observation Network) area face complex obstacles that transcend legal and administrative dimensions, involving economic, political, cultural, cognitive and interpersonal aspects. The diversity of contexts – characterising the 27 EU Member States plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom – requires specific bottom-up approaches for multi-level cooperation, going beyond traditional ‘universal’ solutions.

Developed under the ESPON 2030 programme, CROSSGOV proposes an innovative approach centred on cross-border functional areas as a means of reducing barriers and facilitating the flows of people, goods, materials and knowledge. The perspective adopted goes beyond traditional definitions of ‘border regions’, developing new analytical frameworks to understand real interactions across administrative borders.

Integration is analysed through two dimensions: spatial interactions based on flows and barriers, and convergence of spatial characteristics driven by processes of homogeneity and discontinuity. However, these areas remain inadequately explained in their daily activities, representing a knowledge gap for European cohesion policies.

The methodology combines official Eurostat statistics, georeferenced big data and advanced web scraping techniques to dynamically represent functional areas. The main challenges include: scarcity of harmonised European data, lack of systematic information on functional flows (labour mobility, access to services, production networks), and complexity in the cartographic representation of institutional-territorial intertwining.

Comparative mapping, interactive visualisation and spatial analysis are the key tools to support more effective and evidence-based cooperation policies. The objective is to provide rigorous scientific understanding of functional areas and to formulate concrete recommendations for improving governance mechanisms in the ESPON space.

The research examines status quo and unexpressed potential of functional integration, identifying drivers, structural obstacles, emerging opportunities and evolutionary trends. Specific focus on multi-level governance mechanisms applicable to different European contexts.
FULL is also currently implementing two strategic case studies: the Espace Mont Blanc (Italy-France-Switzerland), an Alpine area with high functional integration and consolidated governance, and the Trieste Karst (Italy-Slovenia), a post-frontier region in the process of re-integration. These cases will make it possible to empirically test the models developed and develop recommendations that can be transferred to other European contexts.

Project outputs:

• Official ESPON website
• Final report
• Case studies analysed by FULL: Espace Mont Blanc and Kras-Carso-Trieste

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