Melis Quoted on Tuscan Village

IDC Foundation Endowed Chair and Professor Alessandro Melis, Ph.D., is quoted in a BBC.com story about Peccioli, this year’s winner in the annual contest to find Il Borgo dei Borghi, the “Village of Villages.”

“[Peccioli] is full of infrastructure that you cannot see anywhere else,” said Melis; New York Tech’s School of Architecture and curated an on-campus exhibition about the town. “For instance, in the city centre the village provides free car sharing for everybody. There are two robots, one robot is collecting the waste from the houses. And another robot is making shopping for elderly or disabled people in the city. It’s like science fiction.”