Activities

Research and Analysis:

LaGeS explores a wide range of topics concerning the territory:

  • Sustainable urban mobility, accessibility and transport
  • Sustainable tourism
  • Regional development
  • Tangible and intangible cultural heritage
  • Urban public space
  • Environment and energy
  • Regional marketing and promotion
  • Agri-food supply chains, food and cities

On these and other subjects, LaGeS conducts the following national and international research activities:

  • Analysis of regional dynamics and socio-economic changes, at the urban and regional scale
  • Quantitative and qualitative field research and production of socio-geographic data
  • Statistical processing of socio-geographic data
  • Digital map production and GIS spatial analysis
  • 3D Spatial data modeling
  • Big data and sentiment analysis

 

Urban and territorial planning

LaGeS boasts solid experience in developing urban and regional plans, using a sectorial approach (mobility, accessibility, transport and tourism plans) as well as a transversal approach (sustainable development, spatial and regional redevelopment, regeneration and reuse plans), in the following areas:

  • Development and enhancement of regional resources
  • International cooperation and development
  • Management, protection and enhancement of the cultural tangible and intangible heritage
  • Transport and sustainable mobility
  • Sustainable tourism
  • Urban strategic planning

 

Education and training

LaGeS has developed several education and training programs, targeted especially toward public officials and employees, in Italy and abroad, covering the following topics:

  • Methods and tools for socio-regional analysis
  • Statistical software and geographic information systems (GIS)
  • Urban analysis and planning
  • Geography, sustainable transport and mobility planning
  • Sustainable development, environment and regional policies

The LaGeS also contributes to the delivery of teaching in the following courses at the University of Florence:

  • Advanced course: Recognition and protection of cultural heritage in crisis contexts
  • Urban Geography I: Theories and Methods (Master’s degree in Geography, Spatial Management, Heritage for International Cooperation)
  • Urban Geography II: Praxis (Master’s degree in Geography, Spatial Management, Heritage for International Cooperation)