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Urban Landscapes in the Green Decade: in Conversation with Andrea Balestrini
Andrea Balestrini is a landscape planner with experience in nature-based solutions, public space design, and landscape governance within international R&I projects and consultancies. He studied at Politecnico di Milano and ...
Video Analytics for the Assessment of Street Experiments: The Case of Bologna
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 ...
Deep Learning Video Analytics to Assess VGA Measures in Public Spaces
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, ...
Spatial Data for Low Carbon Cities: in Conversation with Iacopo Testi
Iacopo Testi is a research affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Senseable City Laboratory) where he conducts research at the intersection of urban sustainability, data science and artificial intelligence. ...
Shifting Paradigm: the impact of Covid-19 on transport planning
How to Put AI at the Service of People in Cities, and Not Otherwise: in Conversation with Prof. Flavio S Correa da Silva
Prof. Flavio S Correa da Silva is a researcher in Artificial Intelligence, with over 30 years of experience in theoretical advancements of AI, as well as the development of AI ...
Analysing ‘Twitter Conversation’ of London Tube Stations: The Case of the Covid-19 Pandemic
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 ...
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 ...
Looking with Machine Eyes: Understanding Patterns in Urban Spaces
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), ...
Shaping the Future of Society and Cities Worldwide: in Conversation with Andrea Gorrini
Dr. Andrea Gorrini is an environmental psychologist with over 10 years experience in the empirical investigation of pedestrian mobility, walkability, and crowd dynamics. His research work is aimed at supporting ...
Fondazione Transform Transport Launch
On May 11, Systematica celebrated the launch of its research foundation Fondazione Transform Transport with collaborators, friends, and professionals from the mobility engineering field, at the Fonderia Napoleonica Eugenia in Milan. Since ...
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 ...