Cities accessible in 15 minutes represent a new possibility for reorganizing the urban system (times, spaces and activities) to try respond many current challenges, including ageing populations, energy saving and, more recently, Covid-19. A renewed concept of accessibility, together with redefinition public "soft" ways moving (pedestrian cycle) reach neighbourhood services, starting point not only from which face challenges but also rediscover sense community, especially at scale. The...

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 projects “smart” urban development. A smart city is generally meant as capable joining “competitiveness” “sustainability”, by integrating different dimensions development addressing infrastructural investments able to support economic growth well the quality life communities, careful management natural...

From an urban planner perspective, a city is smart when able to respond the needs of its inhabitants in more efficient and sustainable way, mainly by properly using information communication technologies (ICTs). This definition highlights importance two main factors for development smarter cities: citizens technology. Human social capital, indeed, play key role, new have be integrated into citizens' habits order effectively improve sustainability. Such considerations apply especially...

The state of abandonment which historical districts have experienced from the second post-war period is rooted in inadequacy urban services, lower level accessibility, lack green areas and shift economic activities suburbs. Urban regeneration, since mid-1990s, has been promoted to enhance improve these by considering their vocations opportunities. It aim protect renew existing heritage, as well intervene multiple dimensions systems. Given this multidimensional nature, we considered...

To rapidly adapt cities to the growing impacts of climate change, open space system can play important functions as regulators and accelerators sustainable urban development. this end, paper aims provide a methodology that classifies spaces on basis their physical characteristics contribution vulnerability articulates them according costs required for adaptation benefits brought. The method was applied city Naples, which is an interesting case study due its heterogeneous territory in terms...

The consequences of climate change urges researchers to investigate the issues environmental sustainability, and definition policies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) has become more urgent.In this context, urban areas play a significant role since here, economic, productive social activities are concentrated and, therefore, majority GHG produced.For these reasons, many cities worldwide making big efforts improve their level but is worthy investment in terms territorial...

The emergency of COVID-19 changed the face our cities, preventing most urban activities, limiting travels on large, medium and short distances drastically reducing number intensity social relationships. restrictive measures, imposed to entire population, sensibly affected experience built environment as well assets pedestrian cycling network that lead achievement essential services. On one hand these limitations a change in people's habits who spend now more time walking absence any other...

In recent years European Commission has developed a set of documents for Members States tracing, directly or indirectly, recommendations the transformation city. The paper wants to outline which future EU draws city, through an integrated and contextual reading addresses strategies contained in last documents, often suggested as Smart City. Although three main (Cohesion Policy 2014-2020 Community, Digital Agenda Europe Urban Agenda) face issue development cities from different points view,...

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 planning instruments that involved governance of urban transformations. In recent years, major focus attention has paid matter development policies too (OECD, 2015), which should be oriented towards construction an model aimed at reducing social exclusion elderly. For this purpose, contribution describes first research segment...

This study aims to contribute theoretical debate concerning urban planning, highlighting the need for a renewal of approaches and tools that could allow achievement smartness. The concept sustainability is evolving, also in relation incoming world “smart cities,” it should be related systemic vision city. Referring approach phenomena, can considered as target condition cities have achieve order contrast “urban entropy” behave smart cities. In this regard, our starts from premise entropy...

City transformations are also due to the development of new energy sources, which have influenced economy and lifestyles, as well physical functional organization urban systems. Cities key place where it is need act for achievement strategic environmental objectives, such reducing greenhouse gas emissions saving. The hard resolution these challenges depends on several factors: their multidimensional nature, change economic settlement model, complexity relationships between elements that...

The paper proposes a focus on three main aspects related to the spread of new coronavirus in our country: correlations that have been established between Covid-19 virus and settlement system country;the urban territorial phenomena can be associated, positively or negatively, with diffusion virus;and, finally, correspondence homogeneous clusters Italian provinces (due current most significant phenomena) intensity infection research is divided four steps: identification scientific disciplinary...