The work of carlorattiassociati draws on Carlo’s research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A list of patents and papers is enclosed; more information can be found on the MIT websites.

/ Patents
/ Docket No. D-22; M.I.T. ID: 10275T;This application is a Non-Provisional of U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 60/463,273 filed 4/16/2003 and Provisional U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 60/463,357 filed 4/17/2003;Title: "Methods and apparatus for visualizing volumetric data by projecting an image representing data at a surface -volume intersection onto a deformable physical object that defines the geometry of the surface"; Inventors: Carlo Ratti; Ben Piper; Yao Wang; Hiroshii Ishii. Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

/ Docket No. D-20; M.I.T. ID: 9771T;This application is a Non-Provisional of U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 60/463,273 filed 4/16/2003;Title: "A three dimensional tangible interface for interacting with spatial-temporal data using a laser scanner"; Inventors: Ben Piper; Carlo Ratti; Hiroshii Ishii. Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

/ Docket No. D-21; M.I.T. ID: 10274T;This application is a Non-Provisional of U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 60/463,357 filed 4/17/2003;Title: "A three dimensional tangible interface for interacting with spatial-temporal data using infrared light sources and infrared detectors"; Inventors: Yao Wang; Assaf Biderman; Carlo Ratti; Ben Piper; Hiroshii Ishii. Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

/ Papers
/ Ratti C., Berry D., "Sense of the City: Wireless and the Emergence of Real-Time Urban Systems", in: Chatelet V. (editor), Interactive cities, Editions XYZ (forthcoming)
/ Ratti C., Di Sabatino S., Britter R., 2005, "Texture and the urban wind field", Theoretical and Applied Climatology (forthcoming - invited article based on the plenary keynote address delivered at the ICUC 03 conference in Lotz, Poland, September 2003) ISSN 0177798X
/ Berry D., Mattiello A., Morello E., Sevtsuk A., Ratti C., 2005, "MMS_Graz", in: De Michelis M. (editor), M-Cities (forthcoming)
/ Raydan D., Ratti C., Steemers K., 2005, "Courtyards: a bioclimatic form?", in Courtyard Housing, edited by: Brian Edwards, Magda Sibley, Peter Land, Mohammad Hakmi, Attilio Petruccioli, Spon Press, ISBN 0415262720
/ Ratti C., "Suggestions for developments in space syntax", in Van Nes A. (editor), 2005, "Space Syntax", Delft University Press
/ Ratti C., Pulselli R. M., Williams S., Frenchman D., 2005, "Mobile Landscapes", submitted for publication to Environment and Planning B - Planning and Design
/ Sevtsuk A., Ratti C., 2005, "iSPOT: describing the use of space on the MIT campus through the analysis of WiFi networks", Proceedings of CUPUM '05: The Ninth International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management, London, 29 June - 1 July 2005
/ Ratti C., Morello, 2005, SunScapes: extending the 'solar envelopes' concept through 'iso-solar surfaces', long paper submitted to the International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture PLEA 2005, November 2005, Beirut, Lebanon
/ Morello E., Ratti C., 2005, 21st Century Milan: using new image processing techniques to assess the environmental quality of the Milan Fair masterplan, short paper submitted to the International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture PLEA 2005, November 2005, Beirut, Lebanon
/ Pulselli R. M., Ratti C., 2005, "Mobile Landscapes", Equilbri (Il Mulino), April 2005
/ Pulselli R. M., Pulselli F. M., Ratti C., Tiezzi E., 2005, "Dynamics and evolution of urban patterns: the evidence of the Mobile Landscape project", Ecosud 2005, Fifth International Conference on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development, 3-5 May 2005, Cadiz, Spain
/ Puri Purini N., Boralevi T., Ratti C., 2005, "La cittą sostenibile", Aspenia n. 28
/ Pulselli R.M., Pulselli F.M., Ratti C. and Tiezzi E., 2005, "Dissipative structures for understanding cities: resource flows and mobility patterns", BECON 2005 - Built Environment Complexity Network, Liverpool, 11-14 September (forthcoming)
/ Pulselli R. M., Ratti C., Tiezzi E., 2005, "Cities out of chaos: evidence from the mobile landscapes project", submitted for publication to the International Journal of Ecodynamics
/ Ratti C., 2004, "Urban texture and radiation exchange", submitted for publication to Solar Energy
/ Ratti C., Mitasova H., 2004, "Tangible GIS: new human-computer interfaces for exploring landscape", 32nd International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy, 20-28 August 2004, 66-5
/ Ratti C., Baker N., Steemers K., 2004, "Energy consumption and urban texture", submitted for publication in Energy and Buildings ISSN 0378-7788
/ Goldman J., Ratti C., 2004, "Beijing: the lost city?", Aspenia (selected papers from Aspenia translated into English)
/ Ratti C., 2005, "The lineage of the line: space syntax parameters from the analysis of urban DEMs", Environment and Planning B - Planning and Design, 32, pp. 547-566, ISSN 02658135
/ Ishii H., Biderman A., Ratti C., 2004, "Continuous Tangible Interfaces: Bringing clay and sand into digital design", BT Journal, 22:4 pp. 287-299, ISSN 1358-3948
/ Ratti C., Biederman A., Piper B., Wang Y., Ishii H., 2004, "Phoxel-Space: an Interface for Exploring Volumetric Data with Physical Voxels", Proceedings of DIS-CHI 2004, Cambridge, MA, 1-4 August 2004, pp. 289-296
/ Ratti C., Wang Y., Ishii H., Piper B., Frenchman D., 2004, "Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs): a novel paradigm for GIS", TGIS Transactions in GIS, 8:4, pp. 487-421, ISSN 1361-1682
/ Ratti C., 2004, "Rejoinder to Hillier and Penn", Environment and Planning B - Planning and Design, 31, pp. 513-516, ISSN 02658135
/ Hillier B., Penn A., 2004, Rejoinder to Carlo Ratti, Environment and Planning B - Planning and Design, 31, pp. 501-511, ISSN 02658135
/ Ratti C., 2004, "Space Syntax: some inconsistencies", Environment and Planning B - Planning and Design (forthcoming), 31, pp. 487-499, ISSN 02658135
/ Ratti C., Richens S., 2004, "Raster analysis of urban texture", Environment and Planning B - Planning and Design, 31, pp. 297-309, ISSN 02658135 (the article was awarded the Michael Breheny Prize for the Best Paper in Environment and Planning B in 2004
/ Goldman J., Ratti C., 2004, "Pechino: la cittą perduta?", Aspenia / Seitinger S., Ratti C., 2004, "Cannes reloaded", Cluster #2 (special issue on wireless), pp. 20-23
/ Ratti C., Baker N., 2003, "Urban infoscapes: new tools to inform city design and planning", ARQ - Architectural Research Quarterly, vol. 7 no. 1 ISSN 1359-1355
/ Frisa A., Ratti C., 2003, "Progettare la cittą: come?", in: Dalla cittą diffusa alla cittą diramata, edited by Angelo Detragiache, Franco Angeli (Milan) ISBN 8846442539
/ Ratti C., 2003, "Instant city" (a report on the urban development of Shenzhen, China), Aspenia (selected papers from Aspenia translated into English; including articles by Francis Fukuyama, Joseph Stiglitz and Alberto Alesina)
/ Ratti C., 2003, "La cittą istantanea" (Shenzhen, China), Aspenia no. 19
/ Ratti C., Di Sabatino S., Britter R., 2002, "Analysis of 3-d urban databases with respect to air pollution dispersion for a number of European and American cities", Water, Air and Soil Pollution: Focus, 2:5 (2002) 459-469 ISSN 1567-7230
/ Ratti C., Raydan D., Steemers K., 2002, "Building form and environmental performance: archetypes, analysis and an arid climate", Energy and Buildings, 1459 (2002) 1-10 ISSN 0378-7788
/ Brown M.J., Burian S.J., Linger S.P., Velugubantla S.P., Ratti C., 2002, "An overview of building morphological characteristics derived from 3D building databases", Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on the Urban Environment, May 2002, Norfolk, Virgina
/ Di Sabatino S., Ratti C., Britter R., 2002, "Modelling the urban flow field and pollution dispersion using digital elevation models", Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on the Urban Environment, May 2002, Norfolk, Virginia
/ Piper B., Ratti C., Ishii H., 2002, "Illuminating Clay: A 3-D Tangible Interface for Landscape Analysis", Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM-CHI 2002), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, April 2002, ISBN 1 58113 453 3
/ Piper B., Ratti C., Ishii H., 2002, "Illuminating Clay: a tangible interface with potential GRASS applications", Proceedings of the open-source GIS - GRASS users conference, Trento, Italy, September 2002
/ Frisa A., Ratti C., 2001, "Progettare la cittą: come?", Proceedings of 'Dalla cittą diffusa alla cittą diramata', 15-16 November 2001, Turin, Italy

/ Brown M., Grimmond S., Ratti C., 2001, "Comparison of Methodologies for Computing Sky View Factor in Urban Environments", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Environmental Hydraulics, 5-8 December 2001, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
/ Ratti C., Di Sabatino S., Britter R., Brown M., Caton F., Burian S., 2001, "Analysis of 3-d urban databases with respect to air pollution dispersion for a number of European and American cities", Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Urban Air Quality, Loutraki, March 2001, Greece
/ Ratti C., Robinson D., Baker N., Steemers K., 2000, "LT Urban: the energy modelling of urban form", in: Steemers K. and Yanna S. (editors), Architecture City Environment, Proceedings of the International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture PLEA 2000, July 2000, Cambridge UK, ISBN 1 902916 16 6
/ Baker N., Ratti C., 2000, "Simplified urban climate models from medium-scale morphological parameters", World Meteorological Organisation WMO/TD no. 1026, Selected Papers from the International Conference in Urban Climatology, ICUC '99, Sydney, November 1999
/ Raydan D., Ratti C., Steemers K., 2000, "Courtyards: a bioclimatic form?", Proceedings of the Conference on Courtyard Housing in Arab cities: directions for the 21st century, 11-13 November 2000, Homs, Syria
/ Ratti C., Di Sabatino S., Caton F., Britter R., 2000, "Morphological parameters for urban dispersion models", Proceedings of the Third Symposium on the Urban Environment (American Meteorological Society), August 2000, Davis, CA
/ Ratti C., Caton F., Di Sabatino S., Britter R., 2000, "Morphological parameters for urban dispersion models", in: Steemers K. and Yanna S. (editors), Architecture City Environment, Proceedings of the International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture PLEA 2000, July 2000, Cambridge UK (short paper) ISBN 1 902916 16 6
/ Stevens Q. and Ratti C., 1999, "Urban Design Project for the town of Kriva Palanka (Republic of Macedonia)", in: Korobar V. (Editor), Urban Space Design, Skopje (University SS Cyril and Methodius Press, Skopje), ISBN 9989 9906 3 8
/ Steemers K., Baker M., Dubiel J., Ratti C., 1999, "Urban texture and microclimate studies", in: Sartogo F. (editor), Saline Ostia Antica, Firenze (Alinea), ISBN 88 8125 257 0
/ Baker N., Ratti C., 1999, "Simplified urban climate models from medium-scale morphological parameters", Proceedings of the International Conference in Urban Climatology, ICUC '99, Sydney, November 1999 ISBN 1 86408 543 6
/ De Vivo F., Einaudi L., Magliocchetti M., Ratti C., 1999, Le strutture collegiali in Italia, Inghilterra, Francia e Stati Uniti: analisi comparativa e basi progettuali, Quaderno n. 2 della Compagnia di Sanpaolo, Turin, June 1999, 175 page published report
/ Ratti C., Richens P., 1999, "Urban texture analysis with image processing techniques", in: Augenbroe G., Eastman C., Computers in Building: Proceedings of the CAADFutures '99 Conference, Atlanta, June 1999, ISBN 0 7923 8536 5
/ Steemers K., Ratti C, 1999, "Informing Urban Bioclimatic Design", Proceedings of the Architecture and Engineering Conference, European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE), University of Plymouth, February 1999, ISBN 2 930301 00 7
/ Steemers K., Ratti C., "Nuovi strumenti per la progettazione bioclimatica urbana", Housing n. 9, Etas Libri, Milan, ISBN 88 453 0840 5
/ Ratti C., Baker N., "Daylighting e il modello di porosita' urbana", Proceedings of the conference Il Progetto di Architettura - Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Rome, May 1998
/ Steemers K., Baker N., Crowther D., Dubiel J., Nikolopoulou M., Ratti C., "City texture and microclimate", Urban Design Studies, Vol. 3, 1997, p. 25-50, ISSN: 1358 3255 ISBN: 1 870606 05 1
/ Steemers K., Baker N., Crowther D., Dubiel J., Nikolopoulou M., Ratti C., Towards zero emission urban development, EU Commission Report, Brussels, 1997