Agatino Rizzo
Agatino Rizzo

Agatino Rizzo

Biträdande professor
Luleå tekniska universitet
Arkitektur
Arkitektur och vatten
Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och naturresurser
agatino.rizzo@ltu.se
0920-493438
F247 Luleå

Academic Profile

Agatino Rizzo (里佐), Ph.D., is a tenured, associate professor in urban planning and design at LTU. Since 2005, Dr. Rizzo has worked as a researcher, visiting fellow, and then lecturer in urban planning and design in several institutions in Europe and Asia. Agatino works at the intersection of planning, design, and geography in contexts as different as Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Canada, Malaysia, Malta, Italy, Singapore, Qatar and the UAE. His main interests are the study of the resource-urbanization nexus and development of a vision to transition to resource-integrated urbanization. Cross-cutting themes are resilience, climate, landscape, heritage, energy, and knowledge production.

Teaching
GIS/Spatial Analysis, Sustainable Planning & Resilience.

External reviewer assignments

  • External Expert: Assessment proposals for Leading Integrated Research for Agenda 2030 in  Africa (LIRA 2030 Africa)
  • Management Committee Member, COST Action "Implementing nature based solutions for creating a resourceful circular city" (Circular City Re.Solution)
  • Member of the scientific committee UPLanD - Journal of Urban Planning, Landscape & environmental Design.
  • External Expert:  intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST, European Union);
  • Referee for academic international journals such as the "International Journal of Urban and Regional Research", “Urban Affairs Review”, “Landscape and Urban Planning”, and “Cities”.

Doktorander

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Social

[https://www.linkedin.com/in/agatinorizzo]

[https://mobile.twitter.com/aga_tinorizzo]

[https://ltu-se.academia.edu/AgatinoRizzo]

[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Agatino_Rizzo]

[http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6831-8857]

[http://cityleft.blogspot.se/]

Research Projects/Activities

Datacenter Farming
The purpose of this project (funded by Vinnova) is to find technical, economic and social synergies between greenhouse gases and data centers that can help make agriculture competitive and sustainable in the Nordic region

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Cloudberry: Multifunctional datacenters for Attractive Cities
The aim of the project (funded by the Swedish energy authority through the Cloudberry research center) is to develop and test a new model of datacenter-urban district integration to re-use wasted energy and contribute to urban sustainability.

[https://www.ltu.se/research/subjects/Byggproduktion-och-teknik/Nyheter/Multifunktionella-datacenter-1.175976?l=en]

Solar City Lulea
Vi kommer att undersöka hur man stöder "prosumers" genom att använda design thinking och deltagande strategier (finansierat av Energimyndigheten).

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Ecodistrict Porsön
The Luleå University of Technology campus will be part of a living lab for a new study in how smaller neighborhoods or communities in cold climate can become more self-sufficient (funded by Formas)

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UNaLab
The UNaLab project (funded by the EU commission with H2020) sets out to provide a framework for future upscaling of the Nature Based Solutions in the demonstration cities, as well as replicate the solutions in seven replication cities.

[https://www.unalab.eu/]

Kiruna Sustainability Center
I Kiruna Sustainability Center ska kommun, näringsliv, forskningsaktörer och samhällsinvånare arbeta tillsammans för att utveckla och testa idéer, metoder och lösningar inom hållbarhet (multiple funders)..

[http://kiruna.se/ksc/]

Food on the Roof
The aim of this project is to explore the possibility to smartly integrate food production in cold urban environments (funded by Enabling ICT).

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MIN-SPIRE project
The aim of this project is to explore the challenges and opportunities in integrating planning and design considerations already into mainstream minining engineering (funded by HLRC)..

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RES-LINK: Workshop on Resource and Urbanization in the Arctic
The aim of this network (funded within the Strategic Funding Joint Arctic Agenda) is to set an interdisciplinary network to initiate research on arctic cities and resources

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Publikationer

Artikel i tidskrift

Energy-efficiency measures for heritage buildings (2019)

a literature review
 Lidelöw. S, Örn. T, Luciani. A, Rizzo. A
Sustainable cities and society, ISSN: 2210-6707, Vol. 45, s. 231-242
Artikel i tidskrift

Climate-sensitive urban design; enabling connectivity for soft mobility in winter (2018)

Chapman. D, Nilsson. K, Rizzo. A, Larsson. A
Urban Design International, ISSN: 1357-5317
Rapport

Food on the Roof (2018)

Developing an IT platform to visualize and identify suitable locations for roof farming in cold climates
 Rizzo. A, Sandberg. M, Johansson. T, Wenngren. J
Dokument
Artikel i tidskrift

Microclimate assessment method for urban design (2018)

A case study in subarctic climate
 Ebrahimabadi. S, Johansson. C, Rizzo. A, Nilsson. K
Urban Design International, ISSN: 1357-5317, Vol. 23, nr. 2, s. 116-131
Konferensbidrag

Towards resource-integrated urbanism (2018)

Rethinking cities through the resource-urbanization nexus (RUN)
 Rizzo. A
Paper presented at : 2018 AESOP Congress, Gothenburg, 10-14 July 2018
Publicerad:22 december 2013
Uppdaterad: 11 januari 2019
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