Urban green spaces provide essential ecosystem services that benefit community health. Analyzing tree coverage in urban areas at a detailed scale is crucial. Recently, deep learning models have been developed ...
Milan is working towards promoting cycling as a major mode of transportation. This article is the second part of a comprehensive study on the city’s cyclability. While the first part focused ...
Recognising the diversity of urban characteristics, street design, possible routes and user types, the research focuses on assessing the level of walkability in the city of Milan (Italy) according to ...
Sharing mobility, carsharing in particular, requires a thorough analytical approach to be fully understood and planned. The aim of this article is to provide an extensive analysis of the relation ...
During the last years, sharing mobility is one of the emerging transport modes, but seldom its planning is entrusted to private operators and not seen as a major vector of ...
Milan aims to make cycling a more prominent form of transportation. This investigation was undertaken to better understand the state of cycling in Milan, analyzing the current and planned cycling ...
The Walk Score is an urban metric that gives a comprehensive overview of a city’s walkability and is widely used to assess the accessibility of cities, neighborhoods and specific places ...
The scientific research project “STEP UP – Walkability for Women in Milan” (Grant No. 2022-1643), submitted under the call for proposals “INEQUALITIES RESEARCH – Generating new knowledge to reduce inequalities” ...
Rome aims to increase cycling levels and its cycling infrastructure. The Grande Raccordo Anulare delle Bici (GRAB) is a planned 48.300 km cycle route. This investigation used a multicriteria analysis ...
The research investigated citizens’ travel data in Bologna using the GPS data collected through the Pollicino project. The proposed analysis uncovered soft modes as predominant and concentrated in central zones. ...
Pedestrian thermal comfort is a quantitative and qualitative measure of how comfortable the average pedestrian is when walking, sitting, or standing in an outdoors environment. Factors that influence outdoor thermal ...
This work aimed at evaluating how a temporary school square, implemented in March 2022 in the city of Bologna under the principles of the tactical urbanism approach, impacted on vehicular ...
This research is the first part of a study focusing on New York City’s urban forest infrastructure. In particular, this study examines the city’s street trees and parkland inventory as ...
Thanks to the recent developments in ICT tools for collecting traffic data in the urban environment, there is an ever-growing availability of videos capturing the nerve centers of cities (e.g., ...
Affordable housing is an integral aspect that determines the level of equity, for it to function sustainably, it is important to ensure that these units are placed in high-opportunity neighborhoods, ...
In March 2022, Fondazione Innovazione Urbana and the Municipality of Bologna built a new public space for children in Via Procaccini (Bologna) near a middle school (see Figure 1), using ...
Since the introduction of the Social Logic of Space (Hillier and Hanson, 1984) and the further developments of Space Syntax theories during the following decades (Hillier et al., 1996; Hillier, ...
Covid-19 pandemic has deeply affected urban mobility: the social-distancing strategies adopted to cope with the virus transmission pushed the majority of city users into avoiding public transport services in favour ...
The research was aimed at defining an innovative nature-based approach to effectively tackle vehicle emissions by considering the role of urban green areas, relying on the capacity of trees to ...
The relevance of computer-based pedestrian crowd simulations has become crucial in transport planning considering the unprecedented effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on urban mobility. However, there is still a lack ...
The development of new technologies is shaping the growth of cities in many ways. Among these, the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), the high-resolution global positioning system (GPS), ...
The 15-minute city idea is founded on a radical approach to urban planning that revaluates the neighbourhood scale and prioritizes accessibility to daily services on the basis of walking and ...
Utilizing GIS and location-based open data, this study examined the level of walkability for women in New York City. As highlighted through a thematic literature review, women experience the city ...
The recent developments of ICT tools for collecting traffic data in the urban environment have allowed a tremendous increase in the quality and amount of easily accessible data. This enables ...
Almost 70 years after Jane Jacobs’ arguments for smaller, mixed-use, connected neighbourhoods were published, the world is beginning to fully grasp the importance of neighbourhood-scale urban planning and actively supported ...
