Daniele Villa, Phd in Urban Planning, is Assistant Professor at the chair of Fundamentals of Representation, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano. His main research interests are: urban and landscape wide-ranging representation and analysis, computer applications to visual simulation, comparative urban studies, qualitative representation, participatory planning and mapping, relational geography, drawing theory, urban theory, crowdsourcing, location-based content generation tools, qualitative-GIS, Cultural Heritage information and communication. http://lnx.quidtum.co.uk/wp/index.php/publications/