To-uS
Summer School on Urban Studies
for Smart Cities

Turin, Italy
DEADLINE | 15.06.2013
Politecnico di Torino
Città di Torino 

The Summer School on Urban Studies for Smart City (To_uS) is promoted by the City of Torino and the Politecnico of Torino. Its aim is to provide high level education to PhD students interested in understanding how and to what extent our cities are changing, following – or contrasting – the path of the so-called “smart cities revolution”. 
 

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SUMMER SCHOOL
The To_uS Summer School programme will explore links of the smart city model with other powerful visions of cities in transformation, such as:
• the Sustainable City, as a model of good practices leading towards a brighter and greener common future;
• the Slow City, as opposed to a too fast development process, in which the core meaning of shared spaces and common futures seems to be lost;
• the Shrinking City, in which the need to control soil consumption and the redefinition of urbanization processes in industrialized countries promote strategies of adaptation.
Such visions and ideas will be confronted also with specific models and approaches to address the transformation of urban areas, e.g the Senseable City (as developed by MIT).
Academics and experts in different fields, including planners, evaluators, urban sociologists, urban geographers, urban designers, political scientists, urban managers, will contribute to the subject, providing a plural perspective on the smart cities debate.

The Summer School courses will ensure 45 hours of lecturing for PhD. Credits will be accounted by each belonging affiliation.
The application will be assessed by the Organization Committee by 30.06.2013 and the 30 selected candidates will be informed and be able to organize their staying in Torino. 

INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
• Constance Bodurow | LTU; Detroit, USA
• Mark Deakin | Edinburgh Napier University, UK 
• Leonel Fadigas | Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portogallo
• Felix Guenther | ETH, Zurigo, Svizzera
• Takao Ozasa | Hokkaido University, Japan
• Mike Raco | Bartlett School, London, UK

SCIENTIFIC COORDINATOR
• Patrizia Lombradi, Politecnico di Torino 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE & TUTORS
Politecnico di Torino
• Silvia Giordano
• Isabella Lami
• Marco Santangelo
• Luca Staricco 
Università di Torino
• Alberto Vanolo

IMPORTANT DATES 
15.06.2013 | Application deadline
30.06.2013 | Admission results

OTHER INFORMATIONS
Cost | Free admission
Accomodation | 20 foreign candidates will have free accomodation 

INFORMATIONS & CONTACTS
Summer School Website
EMAIL | to-us@polito.it