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 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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Abstract The research is based on an extended spatial analysis executed through the application of GIS and Space Syntax, aiming at assessing the level of walkability for children in the ...
On May 13th, 2021 Systematica joined a roundtable discussion at the 6th Biennale dello Spazio Pubblico – BISP 2021, the biannual event dedicated to research, activities and practices devoted to ...
A professional case study in Torrance, California Introduction In 2016, we were appointed to study mobility dynamics in the city of Torrance, a city of roughly 100,000-inhabitants located in the ...
Security for women while walking Advanced urban transport planning activities are shifting towards a focus on pedestrian mobility and walkability (Buhrmann et al., 2019), namely referring to how friendly the ...
Proximity, density and diversity: Local centers to support living at neighborhood-scale The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically influenced the way we live and move. Movement within the city has been dramatically ...
