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 ...
