{"id":263,"date":"2014-06-17T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.unica.it\/urbangis\/?page_id=263"},"modified":"2017-07-19T09:10:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T09:10:54","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.unica.it\/urbangis\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">UrbanGIS is a\u00a0research laboratory, founded at the University of Cagliari by Prof. Giancarlo Deplano in the 1990s, and it is coordinated by Prof. Michele Campagna since 2009.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #333300\">Urban<\/span><span style=\"color: #800000\">GIS<\/span><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0brings together a number of senior and junior researchers specialized in <strong><em><span style=\"color: #008000\">Geo<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff9900\">design<\/span><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0who apply spatial information science methods and tools to spatial planning, environmental impact assessment and territorial governance. Methods and techniques for the representation, analysis, design and evaluation are applied to supporting decision-making processes in\u00a0territorial government, in urban, regional and landscape planning as well as in other sectors of physical planning according to Geodesign principles. Geographic information systems and Planning Support Systems (PSS) have been developed and\u00a0applied at various scales, from the urban\u00a0to the territorial one.\u00a0 Our most recent research results enabled us to develop innovative tools for the integration and the analysis of authoritative data from Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) and Volunteered Geographic\u00a0 Informations\u00a0(VGI) in spatial decision support. The skills of the UrbanGIS lab staff find application in all fields in which the spatial dimension of the analysis is crucial for analysis, design and decision-making.<\/p>\n<p>Michele Campagna and the UrbanGIS team since 2014 are active internationally in promoting Geodesign workshops in planning research, teaching, and practice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The UrbanGIS\u00a0Lab\u00a0 is a member of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories for Europe since 2001 \u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.agile-online.org\/index.php\/about-agile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AGILE &#8211; http:\/\/www.agile-online.org\/index.php\/about-agile<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>For any inquiry, please contact campagna@unica.it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UrbanGIS is a\u00a0research laboratory, founded at the University of Cagliari by Prof. Giancarlo Deplano in the 1990s, and it is coordinated by Prof. Michele Campagna since 2009. UrbanGIS\u00a0brings together a number of senior and junior researchers specialized in Geodesign\u00a0who apply spatial information science methods and tools to spatial planning, environmental impact assessment and territorial governance. Methods and techniques for the representation, analysis, design and evaluation are applied to supporting decision-making processes in\u00a0territorial government, in urban, regional and landscape planning as well as in other sectors of physical planning according to Geodesign principles. Geographic information systems and Planning Support Systems (PSS) <a href='https:\/\/people.unica.it\/urbangis\/about-us\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-263","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.unica.it\/urbangis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.unica.it\/urbangis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.unica.it\/urbangis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.unica.it\/urbangis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.unica.it\/urbangis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/people.unica.it\/urbangis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/people.unica.it\/urbangis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/263\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.unica.it\/urbangis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}