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In the last decades the local and regional authorities worldwide have expressed an increasing interest in the application of development strategies that combine transport and land use actions to reduces the impacts of the negative... more
In the last decades the local and regional authorities worldwide have expressed an increasing interest in the application of development strategies that combine transport and land use actions to reduces the impacts of the negative environmental and socio-economic consequences generated by the mobility needs in the urban area. Like many other regional authorities in the world, the Campania Region faces the problem to improve the existing transport network and optimize the land-use. The regional railway network consists over 3.017 km of lines and 339 stations, operated by three transport companies. The main action of the regional authority in next years is not just renewal of transport infrastructures, also to improve the land-use component in the catchment areas of the urban and peripheral nodes of transport. In order to support the policymakers and technicians, this contribute proposes a quantitative analysis of railway nodes in Campania Region in terms of transport and land-use cha...
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Questo primo numero della rivista affronta un argomento di grande interesse per chi vuole studiare le relazioni tra sistemi urbani e sistema della mobilità: le High Speed Cities. L'obiettivo è riflettere sui molteplici effetti, non... more
Questo primo numero della rivista affronta un argomento di grande interesse per chi vuole studiare le relazioni tra sistemi urbani e sistema della mobilità: le High Speed Cities. L'obiettivo è riflettere sui molteplici effetti, non ancora sufficientemente indagati, che l'entrata in esercizio ...
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Publisher: FedOA Press (Federico II Open Access University Press). Series: Smart City, Urban Planning for a Sustainable Future. Pages: 597. Language: Italian. NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-22031 Abstract: The... more
Publisher: FedOA Press (Federico II Open Access University Press). Series: Smart City, Urban Planning for a Sustainable Future. Pages: 597. Language: Italian. NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-22031 Abstract: 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 d...
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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...
La rivista propone ricerche, sperimentazioni e contributi che affrontano con un approccio unitario i temi dell'urbanistica, della mobilità e dell'ambiente. La rivista si articola in quattro sezioni: ricerche, sperimentazioni,... more
La rivista propone ricerche, sperimentazioni e contributi che affrontano con un approccio unitario i temi dell'urbanistica, della mobilità e dell'ambiente. La rivista si articola in quattro sezioni: ricerche, sperimentazioni, contributi e osservatori. TeMA is the official journal of the TeMA Research Group of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning of the University of Naples Federico II. The journal seeks to encourage debate about the integration of urban, mobility and environmental planning. The journal is articulated into four sections: researches, applications, focuses, reviews. www.tema.unina.it
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Publisher: FedOA Press (Federico II Open Access University Press). Series: Smart City, Urban Planning for a Sustainable Future. Pages: 151. Language: Italian. Abstract : Theories about the origins and developments of modern cities... more
Publisher: FedOA Press (Federico II Open Access University Press). Series: Smart City, Urban Planning for a Sustainable Future. Pages: 151. Language: Italian. Abstract : Theories about the origins and developments of modern cities seem to agree, without exception, to a point: the city is the place of maximum concentration of exchange. Activities, in fact, are located into urban and metropolitan agglomerations to minimize the resources needed to meet the growing need for relationships and exchanges with other activities. In recent years, the concentration and specialization of these activities have led to an extraordinary increase in intensity and quality of exchange needs, with the obvious consequence of congestion in most metropolitan areas with predictable consequences on the sustainability of urban areas, on the quality of life of its inhabitants and on the energy consumption associated with the growing demand for mobility. As a result, in recent years, several authors have a...
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Le teorie sulla nascita e lo sviluppo della citta moderna sembrano concordare, senza eccezioni, su un punto: la citta e il luogo di massima concentrazione dello scambio. Le attivita, infatti, si insediano all’interno degli agglomerati... more
Le teorie sulla nascita e lo sviluppo della citta moderna sembrano concordare, senza eccezioni, su un punto: la citta e il luogo di massima concentrazione dello scambio. Le attivita, infatti, si insediano all’interno degli agglomerati urbani e metropolitani per minimizzare le risorse necessarie a soddisfare le crescenti necessita di relazione e di scambio con le altre attivita localizzate sul territorio. Negli ultimi anni la concentrazione e la specializzazione di queste attivita hanno comportato un aumento straordinario, per intensita e qualita, delle necessita di scambio, con la ovvia conseguenza di avviare alla congestione la maggior parte delle aree metropolitane con prevedibili conseguenze sulla sostenibilita delle aree urbane, sulla qualita della vita dei suoi abitanti e sui consumi energetici associati alla crescente domanda di mobilita. Come conseguenza, negli ultimi anni, diversi autori hanno sostenuto la necessita di una maggiore integrazione tra politiche di assetto urban...
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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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a n d t h e D i r e c t o r y o f O p e n A c c e s s J o u r n a l s (D O A J). T h e r e a r e a n u m b e r o f d i f f e r e n t f u t u r e-c i t y v i s i o n s b e i n g d e v e l o p e d a r o u n d t h e w o r l d a t t h e m o m... more
a n d t h e D i r e c t o r y o f O p e n A c c e s s J o u r n a l s (D O A J). T h e r e a r e a n u m b e r o f d i f f e r e n t f u t u r e-c i t y v i s i o n s b e i n g d e v e l o p e d a r o u n d t h e w o r l d a t t h e m o m e n t : o n e o f t h e m i s S m a r t C i t i e s : I C T a n d b i g d a t a a v a i l a-b i l i t y m a y c o n t r i b u t e t o b e t t e r u n d e r s t a
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...
Contemporary cities have to deal with numerous challenges, from the growth and aging of urban populations to the scarcity of resources; from environmental degradation to climate change. The latter, also due to the increasing severity of... more
Contemporary cities have to deal with numerous challenges, from the growth and aging of urban populations to the scarcity of resources; from environmental degradation to climate change. The latter, also due to the increasing severity of climate-related impacts on urban areas, is widely considered one of the most urgent challenges for urban development in the near future: cities are the main contributors to energy consumption and GHG emissions, paying, at the same time, the highest price for the climate impacts. Thus, climate issues have gained increasing importance in the last decades, both in terms of the metaphors coined by scholars relative to urban future (low-carbon cities, transition cities, smart cities, resilient cities, etc.) and in terms of the initiatives undertaken on different institutional levels. Unfortunately, mitigation and adaptation are generally regarded as two different approaches, neglecting the potential synergies and trade-offs between the related strategies....
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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...
Climate change is considered one of the main environmental issues challenging contemporary cities. Meanwhile, urban development patterns and the growth of urban population represent the main contributors to climate change, affecting the... more
Climate change is considered one of the main environmental issues challenging contemporary cities. Meanwhile, urban development patterns and the growth of urban population represent the main contributors to climate change, affecting the total energy consumptions and the related greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, a breakthrough in current urban development patterns is required to counterbalance the climate-related issues. This study focuses on the Smart City and Resilient City concepts; in detail, based on the review of existing literature, it analyzes the synergies between the two concepts, highlighting how the Smart City concept is more and more widely interpreted as a process addressed to make cities “more livable and resilient and, hence, able to respond quicker to new challenges” (Kunzmann, 2014). Nevertheless, current initiatives to improve cities’ smartness and resilience in the European cities are very fragmented and operational tools capable to support multi-objective stra...
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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 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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In recent years, the effects of climate change on urban areas have pushed more and more policy-makers and urban planners to deal with the management of territorial transformations in a systemic and multi-sector perspective, due to the... more
In recent years, the effects of climate change on urban areas have pushed more and more policy-makers and urban planners to deal with the management of territorial transformations in a systemic and multi-sector perspective, due to the complexity of the issue. In order to enhance the urban governance of climate change and cope with environmental sustainability, the concept of resilience can be used. In this perspective, the present work has a double purpose: on the one hand to reflect on he need to adopt a new comprehension/interpretive approach to the study of the city, which embraces the concept of resilience, and on the other hand to perform a reading of European strategies and plans oriented to mitigate the effects of climate change and to achieve the goals of energy and environmental sustainability. This paper describes some of the results of the knowledge framework of the Project Smart Energy Master for the energy management of territory financed by PON 04A2_00120 R & C Axis II...