Nature-based Solutions to Mitigate Vehicular Traffic Pollution Beyond SUMPs
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 ...
How Covid-19 is Affecting Pedestrian Modeling and Simulation: The Case of Venice
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 ...
Walkability and the 15-minute City Model: An Integrated Approach for the City of Milan
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 ...
Assessing the Level of Walkability for Women Using GIS and Location-Based Open Data: The Case of New York City
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 ...
Stories: a platform built for place–based storytelling
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 ...
Walkability for Children in Bologna: GIS and Space Syntax Applications
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 ...
Proximity services for children: the case of Bologna
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 ...
Space syntax as a foundation for a transport development strategy
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 ...
WALKABILITY FOR WOMEN: GIS AND APP-BASED TOOLS
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 ...
Living local: Mapping Milan micro-centers
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 ...
How Covid-19 is affecting pedestrian modelling
Sustainable mobility and walkability The rising demand for transport services and infrastructure linked to urbanization (United Nations, 2014) requires an institutional process to effectively design and plan future cities. This ...
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Access to green areas and public realm: the case of Milan
Milan Streets Retrofitting Strategy
This article is based on the results of the study Milan sidewalks, in which the width of all the sidewalks of Milan has been mapped and narrow sidewalks were classified ...