Alessandra Oppio, Politecnico di Milano, Marta Bottero, Politecnico di Torino


Cities have long been at the centre of major transformations in responding to the challenges of sustainability. Among these, one phenomenon of particular importance concerns the increasing student mobility in university cities; this phenomenon poses significant problems from the point of view of the housing issue relating to the off-site student component, generating an unsustainable rental market with great difficulties for families.

In this sense, the subject of the right to housing appears to be very linked to that of the right to study, focusing on the analysis of housing needs and the urgency of strategies among all the actors involved (government, local authorities, universities, real estate operators).

A second aspect to recall concerns the fact that university settlements generate important spillovers and opportunities in the territory where they arise, not only in terms of human capital, know-how and income, but also services and infrastructure. In this perspective the university becomes a decisive factor of development with effects on the social, economic, productive, environmental and infrastructural components of a city.

Assessing the complexity of the effects of investments in university settlements is of fundamental importance in defining urban development policies, which aim, on the one hand, at satisfying demand for education and, on the other, at maximising impacts.

In this context, the seminar intends to reflect on the relationship between universities and the real estate market and, more generally, between universities and local economic systems.


PROGRAM

09:00 – 09:30 registrations

09:30 – 13:30 first part

09:30 – 09:35

Institutional greetings

09:35 – 10:15

Introductory report

Ezio Micelli, IUAV University of Venice
Oriol Nel lo i Colom, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Paper presentation

10:15 – 11:30

First session
Sustainability and urban regeneration

Discussant
Grazia Napoli

“Housing mobility at the time of the digital transition. Assessment tools and technologies to understand existing and future settlement needs in support of the processes of governance and regeneration of the territory”
Fabrizio Battisti, Orazio Campo, Fabiana Forte

“ri-Abitare Sociale in Venice – New values for social living in Venice”
Pietro Bonifaci, Sergio Copiello, Egidio Cutillo, Andrea Pastorello, Giulia Piacenti

“Students and tourists: the effects of university presence in a tourist city”
Cristian Cannaos, Giuseppe Omni, Alessandra Casu

“Innovative and sustainable models for the configuration of student halls
complex urban regeneration”
Rubina Canesi, Loreto Cipriani

“How much is the indoor comfort of residential buildings worth? A discrete choice experiment”
Raul Berto, Francesca Tintinaglia, Paolo Rosato

“Funding programmes for university residences: indicators of technological, environmental and economic financial performance”
Giovanna Acampa, Adolfo F.L. Baratta, Laura Calcagnini, Fabrizio Finucci

11:30 – 12:15

Second session
Assessment models and tools

Discussant
Giovanna Acampa

“University and real estate market: an application of the hedonic model in the Turin context”
Sebastiano Barbieri, Marta Bottero, Caterina Caprioli

“Right to study and waiting for profit in the framework of the PNRR: a possible balance?”
Francesca Torrieri, Alessandra Oppio, Marco Rossitti

“An analysis of the optimal functional mix in real estate development operations for student housing”
Pierluigi Morano, Marco Locurcio, Debora Anelli, Felicia Di Liddo, Francesco Tajani

“PNRR and investment in student housing: a proposal for evaluation
economic benefit of public social”
Giulia Datola, Danny Casprini, Marta Dell’Ovo

“Living in university residences or in rented housing. Analysis of differences in cost and effects on university career”
Maria Macchiaroli, Gianluigi De Mare, Luigi Dolores, Angelo Abate

“Estimating the impact of accessibility and urban congestion on housing prices in university cities: an analysis conducted through linear regression and artificial neural networks”
Gabriella Maselli, Antonio Nesticò, Francesca Bruno

12:15 – 13:30

Third session

Case studies

Discussant
Marta Bottero

“Economic feasibility and enhancement of university real estate in the context of the Strategic Plan of the University of Bologna”
Vanessa Assumma, Gian Luca Morini, Simona Tondelli

“University cities and student housing: between public governance and private markets. The case of Cagliari”
Ivan Blecic, Valeria Saiu

“The rent market for students away from home: the case of the University of Calabria”
Francesca Salvo, Daniela Tavano, Francesco Paolo Del Giudice, Valentina Conte

“Real estate market and university locations. A case study”
Mariangela Musolino, Domenico Enrico Massimo, Pierfrancesco De Paola, Francesco Surace, Carlo Bernardo, Alessandro Malerba, Roberta Errigo

“Real estate values, dynamism in residential sub-markets. The influence of university campuses in Turin”
Alice Barreca, Giorgia Malvasi, Diana Rolando, Cristina Coscia, Rocco Antonio Curto, Elena Fregonara

“The evolution of Italian medium-sized cities in relation to metropolitan cities”
Ezio Micelli, Eleonora Righetto

13:30

Conclusion

Audio-video contributions uploaded on the conference website as papers submitted for discussion:

“Sustainability of investments in student housing: proposed taxonomy and system of ESG indicators”
Francesco Tajani, Francesco Sica, Pierluigi Morano, Maria Rosaria Guarini, Giuseppe Cerullo

“Evaluation of real estate dynamics in the Italian university rental market”
Francesco Tajani, Felicia Di Liddo, Debora Anelli, Pierluigi Morano, Marco Locurcio

“Public-private partnership in student projects: proposal of a framework for the analysis of the economic and financial sustainability of investments”
Alessandro Micheli, Maria Rosaria Guarini, Pierluigi Morano, Francesco Sica

“Investment risk in the university rental market: the case of the University “Kore” of Enna”
Giovanna Acampa, Alessio Pino

“The intermittences of the well. Axiological contradictions of the beautiful city”
Maria Rosa Trovato, Vittoria Ventura, Ludovica Nasca, Salvatore Giuffrida

“The relationship between university, real estate market and quality of urban spaces. The case of Enna”
Giovanna Acampa, Fabrizio Battisti, Mariolina Grasso

“Tent or not tent: the trilemma of the University Student”
Paolo Rosasco, Alessandra Oppio, Antonio Farina, Leopoldo Sdino

“The factors that influence the choice of the university residence in Naples”
Irina Di Ruocco, Alessio D’Auria

“The real estate market: the diversification of the forms of the urban economy and the progressive change of the boundaries of the areas inside the cities: the case of Turin in the Italian context”
Rocco Antonio Curto, Alice Barreca, Cristina Coscia, Elena Fregonara, Giorgia Malvasi, Diana Rolando

“The public-private partnership for the enhancement of the residential offer for students. The case of Reggio Calabria”
Francesco Calabrò, Immaculate Lorè, Alessandro Rugolo

“The economic value of sustainability. Housing market and energy performance”
Ezio Micelli, Giulia Giliberto, Eleonora Righetto, Greta Tafuri