How to design or retrofit our streets in order to become centers of social life? We are increasingly aware of the crucial role played by our streets, sidewalks, parks and squares: this capillary infrastructure can fight climate change, soften the impact of pandemics, curb inequalities and connect a rich diversity of people. We are extensively studying best practices and seeing how these can be improved.
In January 2024, Bologna implemented the “Città 30” policy, lowering urban speed limits to 30 km/h to improve safety and livability. A study was conducted to assess the policy’s impact on traffic flow, using TomTom data to analyze changes in ... Read More
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 to estimate tree canopy height with high precision. This research ... Read More
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 on identifying conflict areas and their relationship to accidents, the ... Read More
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 infrastructure against vehicular and cycling flows and accidents. Introduction Cycling ... Read More
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 to evaluate the six implementation sections of the GRAB against ... Read More
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 comfort can be grouped in environment-based and human-based ones. Quantifying ... Read More
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 compiled by the New York City Department of Parks and ... Read More
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 absorb pollutants. The project combined two datasets describing the city ... Read More
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 of knowledge regarding the impact of social distancing on crowding, ... Read More
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 cycling. It is essentially a rights-based model promoting hyper-proximity as ... Read More
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 service accessibility. If not already prompted by global sustainability agendas, ... Read More
Abstract The spread of e-scooters in urban regions as a form of shared micro-mobility or last-mile mobility has been impressive in the last few years. As an example, between December 2019 and September 2020, shared e-scooters have increased, in Italy, ... Read More
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 County of Los Angeles, 30 km southwest of downtown LA. ... Read More
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 reduced in both the number of trips and duration of ... Read More
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 process should aim to achieve environment-related goals at local and ... Read More
The study follows an analytical approach aiming to address the transition of the city towards a wider and more homogeneous supply of public space.
As it is now known, the current pandemic is affecting change in consolidated social behaviours, which ... Read More
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 as inadequate to guarantee the correct social distancing measures necessary ... Read More
Overcrowding and population density are by definition two crucial factors in the subject of pandemic risk. In a hyper-connected global world, inhabited by 7.5 billion people, 55% of whom are concentrated in urban areas (70% in 2050), emergency health ... Read More
Urban parks, playgrounds and private gardens can be exploited in the forthcoming re-opening phase
… starting in Milan!
The research shows that parks can be used safely by families with children, simply by planning their visits.
The main purpose of the study is ... Read More
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