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Los aspectos de la sostenibilidad, hasta hoy, emergen como un tema central dentro de la gran cantidad de definiciones existentes de Smart City. En el debate actual, la conciencia de que las TIC es sólo una de las herramientas, pero no la... more
Los aspectos de la sostenibilidad, hasta hoy, emergen como un tema central dentro de la gran cantidad de definiciones existentes de Smart City. En el debate actual, la conciencia de que las TIC es sólo una de las herramientas, pero no la clave para el nuevo diseño del sistema urbano, especialmente de acuerdo con las nuevas exigencias para satisfacer las necesidades del presente sin comprometer la capacidad de las generaciones futuras para satisfacer sus propias necesidades, colocadas en la parte superior de los desafíos globales cada vez más apremiantes (cambio climático, energía, uso del suelo, etc.). Uno de los objetivos de la sostenibilidad urbana parece estar en contradicción con uno de los puntos principales del modelo de Smart City: la necesidad de densificar la ciudad, a causa del rápido crecimiento de la población. Si las ciudades están diseñadas para ser más compactas, para optimizar el uso del suelo, ¿cómo podemos evitar el riesgo de abarrotar la ciudad? Una posible respue...
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L’articolo propone la lettura dei contenuti del Preliminare del PTCP di Avellino, un piano per molti aspetti innovativo, soprattutto per aver coniugato pianificazione di area vasta di tipo tradizionale e logica “strategica”. In... more
L’articolo propone la lettura dei contenuti del Preliminare del PTCP di Avellino, un piano per molti aspetti innovativo, soprattutto per aver coniugato pianificazione di area vasta di tipo tradizionale e logica “strategica”. In particolare, l’articolo descrive idee guida, contenuti e strategie del piano orientate, prevalentemente, a stimolare lo sviluppo sostenibile di un’area in ritardo di sviluppo come la provincia irpina, attraverso la salvaguardia e valorizzazione delle risorse naturali e storico-culturali, la costruzione di reti di medie e piccole citta e reti di mobilita alle diverse scale, da quella urbana a quella internazionale, e interventi sul sistema della mobilita. Nel 2004, ormai piu di cinque anni fa, e stato adottato, a maggioranza assoluta (solo due gli astenuti), il Preliminare di Piano Territoriale di Coordinamento della Provincia di Avellino, dopo un lavoro di oltre due anni che ha visto impegnati gli uffici provinciali con due dipartimenti universitari. Il lavor...
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This Special Issue of TeMA Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment collects the research works of one of the sessions organised in the framework of the XX Scientific Meeting of the Societa Italiana degli Economisti dei Trasporti e... more
This Special Issue of TeMA Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment collects the research works of one of the sessions organised in the framework of the XX Scientific Meeting of the Societa Italiana degli Economisti dei Trasporti e della Logistica (SIET), focused on the MOBILAGE (Mobility and aging: daily life and welfare supportive networks at the neighbourhood level) research project financed by Fondazione Cariplo within the “Aging and social research: people, places and relations” 2017 Call for scientific research. The session was addressed to investigate elderly (people aged 65+) mobility, by exploring the supply and demand of Local Public Transport (LPT) in urban areas.
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La télématique, l'informatique, et plus en général l'innovation technologique dans le domaine des communications peuvent fournir les opportunités et les instruments pour définir de nouvelles façons d’approche et de solution à la... more
La télématique, l'informatique, et plus en général l'innovation technologique dans le domaine des communications peuvent fournir les opportunités et les instruments pour définir de nouvelles façons d’approche et de solution à la dégradation des villes. L'objectif principal de cette recherche est la formulation d’une proposition de projet pour l’aire métropolitaine de Naples dans laquelle on envisage un nouveau modèle d’aménagement et de gestion du système d’implantation métropolitaine. Le travail, dont le contenu est expressément d’action-projet, vise à analyser les fonctions urbaines les plus significatives dans le but de rationaliser et de contrôler la “demande urbaine’’ , toujours croissante, de mobilité, de fonctions et d’espace.
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Gargiulo Carmela, La Rocca Rosa Anna, Stanganelli Marialuce. Technological networks and regional competiveneness : reading elements and assessment criteria. In: NETCOM : Réseaux, communication et territoires / Networks and Communication... more
Gargiulo Carmela, La Rocca Rosa Anna, Stanganelli Marialuce. Technological networks and regional competiveneness : reading elements and assessment criteria. In: NETCOM : Réseaux, communication et territoires / Networks and Communication Studies, vol. 10 n°2, août 1996. pp. 539-571
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Laboratorio Territorio Mobilità e Ambiente - TeMALab Dipartimento di Pianificazione e Scienza del Territorio Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II e-mail: gargiulo@unina.it;galderis@unina... more
Laboratorio Territorio Mobilità e Ambiente - TeMALab Dipartimento di Pianificazione e Scienza del Territorio Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II e-mail: gargiulo@unina.it;galderis@unina .it;ceudech@unina.it;web:www.dipist.unina.it ... Trimestrale del Laboratorio Territorio ...
The emergency of COVID-19 changed the face of our cities, preventing most of the urban activities, limiting travels on large, medium and short distances and drastically reducing the number and the intensity of social relationships. The... more
The emergency of COVID-19 changed the face of our cities, preventing most of the urban activities, limiting travels on large, medium and short distances and drastically reducing the number and the intensity of social relationships. The restrictive measures, imposed to the entire population, sensibly affected the experience of our built environment as well as the assets of pedestrian and cycling network that lead to the achievement of essential urban services. On one hand these limitations drastically imposed a change in the people's habits who spend now more time walking and cycling in absence of any other entertainments; on the other, they have revealed the need of a reorganisation of pedestrians and cycling paths as well as of open spaces. The morphology of these urban spaces are unable to cope with the current social-distancing situation and to adapt to a “new different routine”. Local decision makers face with a new demand of urban space for pedestrian and cycling accessibil...
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In the framework of the Smart Energy Master (SEM) project, carried out by the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering (DICEA) in collaboration with four partners from industry, guidelines were drawn up "to... more
In the framework of the Smart Energy Master (SEM) project, carried out by the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering (DICEA) in collaboration with four partners from industry, guidelines were drawn up "to promote behaviour and lifestyles aiming to reduce energy consumption in the urban environment". Such guidelines provide general orientation for improving energy efficiency and reducing resource consumption in urban contexts. The study, carried out in a context of networking and sharing research processes, specifically aims to give useful indications for a psycho-social change in local communities with the ultimate objective of the system's environmental health. The purpose is to offer a theoretical and methodological frame of reference to promote ecologically sustainable behaviour and lifestyles of citizens in Europe's smart cities of the future.
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Much has changed since Krugman argued that only firms compete to each other and not territories (1994); it is now generally accepted that countries, regions and cities do compete against each other and this competition is getting fiercer,... more
Much has changed since Krugman argued that only firms compete to each other and not territories (1994); it is now generally accepted that countries, regions and cities do compete against each other and this competition is getting fiercer, especially since emerging countries and cities are growing faster, questioning the power of more developed urban realities. Since the economic crisis of 2009, Italy has been going through a difficult time, both in terms of financial and social; what type of impacts there have been from a competitive perspective at international and local scale? How Italian competitiveness has changed in the last twenty years? The aim of this paper1 is to describe the evolution of urban competitiveness in Italy from 1995 to 2013, referring it at provincial scale. The benchmarking has been done using a previous research as baseline and then updating it with the most recent data available. From the comparison seems clear that, despite the economic crisis, Italy tried to improve its competitiveness at international level by increasing its infrastructures and educational endowment, but the wider North-South divide has slowed down the growth of the country.
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Laboratorio Territorio Mobilità e Ambiente - TeMALab Dipartimento di Pianificazione e Scienza del Territorio Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II e-mail: gargiulo@unina.it;galderis@unina .it;ceudech@unina.it;web:www.dipist.unina.it ... Trimestrale del Laboratorio Territorio ...
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Evergreen section This article was published in Italian in 1995 with the title "La città come sistema complesso in crisi strutturale" as a contribution in the volume Bertuglia, S.C., Fuccella, R. & Sartorio, G. (eds), La città... more
Evergreen section This article was published in Italian in 1995 with the title "La città come sistema complesso in crisi strutturale" as a contribution in the volume Bertuglia, S.C., Fuccella, R. & Sartorio, G. (eds), La città come sistema complesso in crisi strutturale: strumenti e tecniche per il governo metropolitano, Giuffrè, Milano. The book is included in the Studi Urbanistici series published by Fondazione Aldo Della Rocca and it can be consulted, in its original version, at the following address: https://www.fondazionedellarocca.it/ We thank the President Gian Aldo Della Rocca for having authorized the publication of the research in English. The paper in this new section of TeMA Journal, Evergreen, is the literal English translation. This section aims at drawing the attention of the international scientific community to papers that, despite the passing of time, still present elements of significative scientific interest – insights, anticipations and reflections – e...
Cities accessible in 15 minutes represent a new possibility for reorganizing the urban system (times, spaces and activities) to try to respond to many current challenges, including ageing populations, energy saving and, more recently,... more
Cities accessible in 15 minutes represent a new possibility for reorganizing the urban system (times, spaces and activities) to try to respond to many current challenges, including ageing populations, energy saving and, more recently, Covid-19. A renewed concept of urban accessibility, together with the redefinition of public spaces and "soft" ways of moving (pedestrian and cycle) to reach neighbourhood services, represent a starting point not only from which to face new challenges but also to rediscover the sense of community, especially at the neighbourhood scale. The 15-minute city draws its origins from the concept of the "neighbourhood unit", developed in 1923 in a competition for the city of Chicago, to define compact residential neighbourhoods where the proximity between services and homes contributed to set out the identity character of that part of the city and to create "the sense of belonging" of a community to a place. The events of the last year strongly re-propose experimentation with this approach, also following the proposal by the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, aimed at giving a new face to Paris starting from the creation of extensive pedestrian green areas on the large boulevards that are now crossed by the cars and, therefore, to allow the inhabitants to reach, by walking, essential urban services within the 15-minute threshold. Other cities, such as New York and Milan, have also begun to work to make their neighbourhoods, especially peripheral ones, accessible in 15 minutes on foot or by bicycle, without neglecting the goal of transforming these neighbourhoods into attractive places for social gathering for local communities. In this perspective, the research work aims at identifying the urban characteristics that define a 15-minute city, starting from the cities that are launching this experimentation. Among the urban characteristics, the geomorphological, physical (concerning both the spaces and the paths, such as the geometry of the pedestrian and cycle networks), functional (distribution and location of services), socio-economic (of the population) and settlement ones are taken into consideration. According to the weights of the variables identified as significant, the work defines different areas accessible in 15 minutes based on users' willingness to walk and the geomorphological, physical, settlement and functional characteristics identified in each urban area. The work is carried out in selected districts of the city of Naples which, due to their demographic, morphological and settlement characteristics, make them a significant area of experimentation. © 2022 The Authors. Published by ELSEVIER B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0)
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Coastal cities represent the main vulnerable areas to the climate change impacts (especially to coastal fl ooding) because of the high concentration of people and economic assets that will are foreseen to increase in 2100. Since cities... more
Coastal cities represent the main vulnerable areas to the climate change impacts (especially to coastal fl ooding) because of the high concentration of people and economic assets that will are foreseen to increase in 2100. Since cities are important sites of global climate actions, urban planning plays a key role in the climate change challenge. In particular, the defi nition of urban adaptation strategies requires the adoption of a systemic approach. Through such an approach, indeed, it is possible to consider in a holistic way all elements, which affect the urban resilience of coastal areas to climate events, such as coastal fl ooding. However, the literature review and the analysis of urban planning experiences have shown that procedures for assessing the resilience level of coastal cities and tools for addressing decision-makers to implement resilient policies and actions in these areas are not well established. Therefore, the aim of this work is the introduction of a methodolog...
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The paper is part of the scientific research sector concerning the government of urban transformations in order to promote efficiency and reduction of energy consumption in urban areas. In this study, urban greenspaces (green areas) are... more
The paper is part of the scientific research sector concerning the government of urban transformations in order to promote efficiency and reduction of energy consumption in urban areas. In this study, urban greenspaces (green areas) are proposed as a strategy for cities to achieve both urban sustainability and resilience while addressing the issues of energy reduction and climate change adaptation. The study investigated the microclimate impact of greenspaces on the cooling energy needs of residential buildings in Naples, Italy, given different urban fabric characteristics by coupling the microclimate model ENVI-met with the building energy model EnergyPlus. The charts resulted from the study could represent an useful decision support tool for urban planners and policy-makers to locate and size greenspaces based on their effectiveness in terms of energy consumption reduction. The study found that—in general—a medium-size green area (4900 m2) would reduce the cooling energy consumpti...
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Until a few years ago, the elderly were considered as fragile, lonely, marginalized citizens, unable to live independently and had generally been "invisible" in studies and planning instruments that involved the governance of... more
Until a few years ago, the elderly were considered as fragile, lonely, marginalized citizens, unable to live independently and had generally been "invisible" in studies and planning instruments that involved the governance of urban transformations. In recent years, a major focus of attention has been paid to the matter in urban development policies too (OECD, 2015), which should be oriented towards the construction of an urban model aimed at reducing the social exclusion of the elderly. For this purpose, this contribution describes a first research segment developed by the University of Naples operating unit concerning the definition of a set of variables to measure accessibility of the elderly segment of the population to the neighbourhood scale. In particular, the paper pursues a twofold objective: cognitive and methodological. Firstly, to outline the cognitive framework on the issue of urban accessibility for the elderly through a review of the main studies on this topi...
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Climate change, energy issues and urban population growth are among the main themes on which the scientific debate focuses today. Over the last decades, the literature has proposed different approaches to face these challenges. This paper... more
Climate change, energy issues and urban population growth are among the main themes on which the scientific debate focuses today. Over the last decades, the literature has proposed different approaches to face these challenges. This paper focuses on two widely debated approaches: the smart and the resilient city paradigms, that continue to draw the attention of scholars and institutional bodies worldwide. The need to find strategies to reduce energy consumption and mitigate climate change impacts has been a prerequisite for the Smart Energy Master project for territorial governance of energy. One of the results is the Urban Saving Energy Model that "looks” at the several characteristics of a city in an integrated manner. This paper presents the results of a scientific and technical procedure that, starting from a thorough investigation of the physical and environmental characteristics of the city of Naples, has identified which variables have the greatest effect on energy consu...
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The academic debate has been turn the attention on pedestrian accessibility to urban services, as walking allow to solve several issues ranging from social and health problems also accentuated by the ongoing pandemic. The innovation in... more
The academic debate has been turn the attention on pedestrian accessibility to urban services, as walking allow to solve several issues ranging from social and health problems also accentuated by the ongoing pandemic. The innovation in geospatial field has encouraged the development of accessibility and walkability measures and indicators oriented to measure the main physical and functional characteristics of the built environment related to the accessibility of urban services at the neighbourhood scale. According to these premises, this research work, aimed at improving pedestrian accessibility and guaranteeing equal access to neighbourhood-scale services, proposes a seven-steps GIS method based on an Accessibility Indicator that integrates the main aspects of walkability indexes relating to connectivity, sense of security, geometry and amenity of urban built environment. This Accessibility Indicator defines the areas of easy accessibility to the local essential services, by referring to two different maximum distances: the first relates to the distance of 700 m defined in the literature as the distance that a user is willing to walk to use a neighborhood service and the second relates to the regulatory restrictions adopted in the most difficult periods of the pandemic (500 m). © 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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Nell’adattare le citta ai cambiamenti climatici, le aree verdi costituiscono un capitale prezioso in ragione del miglioramento del comfort termico e del risparmio energetico. Al fine di fornire uno strumento di supporto alle decisioni... more
Nell’adattare le citta ai cambiamenti climatici, le aree verdi costituiscono un capitale prezioso in ragione del miglioramento del comfort termico e del risparmio energetico. Al fine di fornire uno strumento di supporto alle decisioni basato sul rapporto tra rete del verde e caratteristiche urbane, questo lavoro propone un metodo orientato a: definire le porzioni urbane che risentono degli effetti di raffrescamento, in ragione delle caratteristiche insediative; definire gli interventi areali, puntuali e lineari della rete verde.
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This study aims to contribute to theoretical debate concerning urban planning, highlighting the need for a renewal of approaches and tools that could allow for the achievement of urban smartness. The concept of urban sustainability is... more
This study aims to contribute to theoretical debate concerning urban planning, highlighting the need for a renewal of approaches and tools that could allow for the achievement of urban smartness. The concept of urban sustainability is evolving, also in relation to the incoming world of “smart cities,” and it should be related to a systemic vision of the city. Referring to a systemic approach for the study of urban phenomena, sustainability can be considered as a target condition that cities have to achieve in order to contrast “urban entropy” and behave as smart cities. In this regard, our study starts from the premise that entropy is a negative state, which can affect the urban system in all its components. Among these components, the social subsystem can play a strategic role and some urban functions (such as the components of the functional subsystem) can be designated as “driving functions” that are able to lead the urban system towards a sustainable and smarter state of equilib...
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The challenges imposed by the changing climate and the energy-driven developments are very complex and need to be addressed from the global to the local scale. In the last decades, this issue has attracted the attention of policy makers... more
The challenges imposed by the changing climate and the energy-driven developments are very complex and need to be addressed from the global to the local scale. In the last decades, this issue has attracted the attention of policy makers at all levels of government, attempting to adopt an integrated and adaptive energy and climate strategy. This paper reviews and analyzes the main efforts that have been made in Europe to secure a transition toward a low-carbon and energy—efficiency society from a spatial planning perspective. To this aim, the paper presents an in-depth analysis of selected climate and energy policy documents elaborated at three different levels of governance: the European Union, the national and the local level. At the European level, our analysis shows that very limited attention has given to spatial planning as a strategy to reduce or ameliorate the impacts of the changing climate. At the national level, while mitigation policies are more inclined towards techno-centric solutions, adaptation policies partly recognize the anticipatory role of spatial planning to play in promoting robust adaptation measures. At the local level, where most of the causes and the effects of the changing climate are manifested, technological options are often well integrated with spatial planning. However, even at the local scale, energy and climate policies focus mainly on individual sectors or urban functions rather than systemic changes.
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In recent years European Commission has developed a set of documents for Members States tracing, directly or indirectly, recommendations for the transformation of the European city. The paper wants to outline which future EU draws for the... more
In recent years European Commission has developed a set of documents for Members States tracing, directly or indirectly, recommendations for the transformation of the European city. The paper wants to outline which future EU draws for the city, a future often suggested as Smart City. This aim is achieved through an integrated and contextual reading of addresses and strategies contained in the last documents elaborated by European Commission. Although the three main documents (Cohesion Policy 2014-2020 of European Community, Digital Agenda for Europe and European Urban Agenda) face the issue of the future development of European cities from different points of view, which are respectively social cohesion, ICT and urban dimension, each of them pays particular attention to urban and territorial dimension, identified by the name of Smart City. In other words, the paper aims at drawing the evolution scenario of Smart Cities that can be delineated through the contextual reading of the thr...
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City transformations are also due to the development of new energy sources, which have influenced economy and lifestyles, as well as the physical and functional organization of urban systems. Cities are the key place where it is need to... more
City transformations are also due to the development of new energy sources, which have influenced economy and lifestyles, as well as the physical and functional organization of urban systems. Cities are the key place where it is need to act for the achievement of strategic environmental objectives, such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions and energy saving. The hard resolution of these challenges depends on several factors: their multidimensional nature, the change of the economic and settlement development model, and also the complexity of the relationships between the elements that constitute the urban systems and that affect energy consumption. According to this awareness the Project Smart Energy Master for the energy management of territory financed by PON 04A2_00120 R & C Axis II, from 2012 to 2015 has been developed: it is aimed at supporting local authorities in the development of strategies for the reduction of energy consumption through actions designed to change behavior ...
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The issue of integration among city, mobility and energy plays a central role in the current EU policies, aimed at achieving energy saving targets, independence from fossil fuels and enhance of the urban systems resilience, but the... more
The issue of integration among city, mobility and energy plays a central role in the current EU policies, aimed at achieving energy saving targets, independence from fossil fuels and enhance of the urban systems resilience, but the strategies of the single states are, however, still far from its implementation. This paper proposes a reading of the current policies and of the recent initiatives aimed at improving the energy efficiency of settlements, implemented at both Community and national level, aimed at laying the groundwork for the definition of an integrated approach between city and mobility to resolve energy problem. Therefore, the paper is divided into six parts. The first part describes the transition from the concept of sustainability to the concept of resilience and illustrates the central role played by this one in the current urban and territorial research; the second part briefly analyzes the main and more recent European directives related to city, mobility and energ...
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In recent years European Commission has developed a set of documents for Members States tracing, directly or indirectly, recommendations for the transformation of the European city. The paper wants to outline which future EU draws for the... more
In recent years European Commission has developed a set of documents for Members States tracing, directly or indirectly, recommendations for the transformation of the European city. The paper wants to outline which future EU draws for the city, a future often suggested as Smart City. This aim is achieved through an integrated and contextual reading of addresses and strategies contained in the last documents elaborated by European Commission. Although the three main documents (Cohesion Policy 2014-2020 of European Community, Digital Agenda for Europe and European Urban Agenda) face the issue of the future development of European cities from different points of view, which are respectively social cohesion, ICT and urban dimension, each of them pays particular attention to urban and territorial dimension, identified by the name of Smart City. In other words, the paper aims at drawing the evolution scenario of Smart Cities that can be delineated through the contextual reading of the thr...
This paper describes a part of the research carried out by the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (DICEA) of the University of Naples “Federico II”, within the Project Smart Energy Master for the energy... more
This paper describes a part of the research carried out by the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (DICEA) of the University of Naples “Federico II”, within the Project Smart Energy Master for the energy management of territory, financed by PON 04a2_E R&C Axis II, from 2012 to 2015. Today that the idea of smart city draws the attention of urban planners and policy makers and, at the same time, global competitiveness is considered essential for the success of a city, the paper aims to investigate the relationship between the concept of smart city and that of competitive city, identifying common characteristics and differences and answer the question: is “smartness” a new concept for urban studies? The analysis has been conducted in the Italian context, comparing the competitive structure of Italian provinces with their performance as smart cities. To rank Italian provinces because of their level of competitiveness, a previous ranking, carried out in 1995,...
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The present paper illustrates the results of the first steps of a study on one aspect investigated as the preliminary step of the definition of the analysis - comprehension model of the relation between: city, buildings, and user... more
The present paper illustrates the results of the first steps of a study on one aspect investigated as the preliminary step of the definition of the analysis - comprehension model of the relation between: city, buildings, and user behavior, for the reduction of energy consumption within the research project “Smart Energy Master” for the energetic governance of the territory (PON_MIUR n. pos. 04a2_00120 CUP Ricerca: E61H12000130005), at the Department of Civil, Building and Environmental Engineering - University of Naples Federico II, principal investigator prof. Carmela Gargiulo. Specifically the literary review aimed at determining if, and in what measure, the presence of public and singular buildings is present in the energy consumption estimate models, proposed by the scientific community, for the city or neighborhood scale. The difficulties in defining the weight of these singular buildings on the total energy consumption and the impossibility to define mean values that are signi...
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The paper proposes a focus on three main aspects related to the spread of the new coronavirus in our country: the correlations that have been established between the spread of the Covid-19 virus and the settlement system of our... more
The paper proposes a focus on three main aspects related to the spread of the new coronavirus in our country: the correlations that have been established between the spread of the Covid-19 virus and the settlement system of our country;the urban and territorial phenomena that can be associated, positively or negatively, with the diffusion of the virus;and, finally, the correspondence between homogeneous clusters of Italian provinces (due to the current most significant urban phenomena) and the intensity and spread of the infection The research is divided in four steps: the identification of the scientific and disciplinary approach, the definition of territorial areas and their descriptive variables, the choice of computational models, and the evaluation of the results The main findings of the study highlight that significant correlations are not always identifiable between settlement characteristics and the spread of the infection The diffusion of the new coronavirus is closely rela...
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The volume contains the results of the research project "Governance Analysis Project (GAP) for the Smart Energy City. The actualization of Smart Cities in the Metropolitan Areas of Europe and Italy" conducted within the PON... more
The volume contains the results of the research project "Governance Analysis Project (GAP) for the Smart Energy City. The actualization of Smart Cities in the Metropolitan Areas of Europe and Italy" conducted within the PON "Smart Energy Master for the energy management of the territory" at the University Federico II of Naples (TeMA Lab of the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering). Smart Cities have gained increasing relevance in the scientific debate and in the national and international operational practice, emerging as one of the opportunities to rethink cities and, more generally, the life of urban communities. First reflections, researches and projects on the issue seem to converge towards the idea that a "smart" urban development should not only be a result of the yet necessary and unavoidable infrastructural endowment (physical capital) and of its continuing innovation, but also of the quality of human, social and envi...
The concept of “Smart City”, providing a solution for making cities more efficient and sustainable, has been quite popular in recent years, encouraging reflections, ideas, researches and projects for a “smart” urban development. A smart... more
The concept of “Smart City”, providing a solution for making cities more efficient and sustainable, has been quite popular in recent years, encouraging reflections, ideas, researches and projects for a “smart” urban development. A smart city is generally meant as a city capable of joining “competitiveness” and “sustainability”, by integrating different dimensions of development and addressing infrastructural investments able to support economic growth as well as the quality of life of communities, a more careful management of natural resources, a greater transparency and participation to decision-making processes. Based on those assumptions, this contribution tackle the controversial subject of Smart City, starting from the review of the scientific Italian and international literature that, from the Eighties to the Nineties, has been largely focused on ICTs and their impacts on urban development. Then, the focus shifts on the large debate on smart cities that has been developing fro...
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The phenomenon of rapid and unplanned urban growth, driven by the migration from rural to urban areas, has hindered healthy urbanization and undermined sustainable development. Sustainability assessment has become one of the popular terms... more
The phenomenon of rapid and unplanned urban growth, driven by the migration from rural to urban areas, has hindered healthy urbanization and undermined sustainable development. Sustainability assessment has become one of the popular terms in different fields, especially in architecture and urban planning, and world leading urban sustainability assessment tools have been proposed. Each tool is based on a set of weighted evaluation parameters, related to some main sustainability dimension (environment, economy, society …), and requires to reach a sustainability threshold. In this paper, after a brief review of the state of the art, a linear optimization model is presented, which aimed to find the minimum set of parameters needed to guarantee the sustainability threshold for each tool, taking into account all the sustainability dimensions. The model has been positively experienced with 144 input parameters belonging to five assessment tools. The tests prove that this procedure is able ...
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The new paradigm of smart city includes the topics of land consumption and climate change adaptation thus bringing to the fore the role of open spaces system in the strategic development of urban areas (Gill et al., 2007; Gargiulo &... more
The new paradigm of smart city includes the
topics of land consumption and climate
change adaptation thus bringing to the fore
the role of open spaces system in the
strategic development of urban areas (Gill et
al., 2007; Gargiulo & Zucaro, 2015). In this
context, the study of different
characteristics of urban settlements and the
focus on the relationship between full and
empty urban spaces, could provide an
important set of information for an energy
saving based design of open spaces (Jones et
al., 2001; Papa et al., 2014). In particular,
within the relations between the elements
composing the urban physical space, green
spaces play a major role thanks to the many
positive effects they produce on the urban
environment. Vegetation, in fact, in addition
to being a key component of quality of life,
has an important role to make cities more
sustainable and resilient, through the socalled
"oasis effect", significant for reducing
the energy consumption due to the use of
air conditioning in summer (Coronel &
Alvarez, 2001; Zhang et al., 2014). This
paper intends to propose a methodology for
measuring the impact of the green areas in
different types of urban fabric, in terms of
temperature mitigation and energy
consumption reduction in order to
contribute to the scientific debate on the
definition of new instruments able to
integrate climate and energy aspects in the
design of green space networks.
This work, in particular, represents a
development of a previous research aimed
at effectively localizing, dimensioning and
distributing green spaces, starting from data
related to a heterogeneous urban pattern
for density and presence of green in the
municipality of Naples.
The variable of building aspect ratio, related
to the geometry of the road network, was
inserted in the calculation parameters, thus
achieving, through the use of a thermal
simulation software, the incidence of solar
radiation on the main facades of the
buildings and its rated thermal input for air
conditioning of indoor environment. The
obtained data were integrated, through the
GIS system, with the results of the previous
study creating a useful decision support tool
to test the effectiveness of the green
network system in the analyzed urban
context, and to strategically define the areas
to place new vegetation elements, both
punctual (green spaces) and linear (tree
rows).
topics of land consumption and climate
change adaptation thus bringing to the fore
the role of open spaces system in the
strategic development of urban areas (Gill et
al., 2007; Gargiulo & Zucaro, 2015). In this
context, the study of different
characteristics of urban settlements and the
focus on the relationship between full and
empty urban spaces, could provide an
important set of information for an energy
saving based design of open spaces (Jones et
al., 2001; Papa et al., 2014). In particular,
within the relations between the elements
composing the urban physical space, green
spaces play a major role thanks to the many
positive effects they produce on the urban
environment. Vegetation, in fact, in addition
to being a key component of quality of life,
has an important role to make cities more
sustainable and resilient, through the socalled
"oasis effect", significant for reducing
the energy consumption due to the use of
air conditioning in summer (Coronel &
Alvarez, 2001; Zhang et al., 2014). This
paper intends to propose a methodology for
measuring the impact of the green areas in
different types of urban fabric, in terms of
temperature mitigation and energy
consumption reduction in order to
contribute to the scientific debate on the
definition of new instruments able to
integrate climate and energy aspects in the
design of green space networks.
This work, in particular, represents a
development of a previous research aimed
at effectively localizing, dimensioning and
distributing green spaces, starting from data
related to a heterogeneous urban pattern
for density and presence of green in the
municipality of Naples.
The variable of building aspect ratio, related
to the geometry of the road network, was
inserted in the calculation parameters, thus
achieving, through the use of a thermal
simulation software, the incidence of solar
radiation on the main facades of the
buildings and its rated thermal input for air
conditioning of indoor environment. The
obtained data were integrated, through the
GIS system, with the results of the previous
study creating a useful decision support tool
to test the effectiveness of the green
network system in the analyzed urban
context, and to strategically define the areas
to place new vegetation elements, both
punctual (green spaces) and linear (tree
rows).