The concept of the 15-minute city is receiving increasing attention, both in planning practices and academic literature, especially now that pandemic has made evident need for a minimum set proximity-based services accessible by active travel. Most issues this can be traced back to more or less past ideas such as garden city, neighbourhood unit, superblock etc.; however, further studies are needed, many theoretical methodological questions its implementation remain unresolved. paper presents...

Car dependency greatly contributes to the climate crisis and corrosion of public space. In response, cities are introducing pedestrianisation, cycle lanes or tactical urban interventions aimed at repurposing streets for other road users. Framed as ‘experiments’, these reallocations street space disrupt traditional transport planning procedures, often with promising results in promoting active travel. They also associated deep conflicts criticism, especially by citizens defending right drive....

To improve neighbourhood liveability and urban sustainability, Barcelona is seeking to re-organize its structure into superblocks, designed discourage cut-through traffic promote multiple uses of street space. Despite potential, this approach not without limits, that should be properly taken account. The implementation the Supermanzana model in Poblenou explored paper analyse potentialities constraints. Temporal synchronization between level turns out particularly important reduce conflicts...

The paper proposes a reflection on the superblock model - or supermanzana, in its well-known Spanish application context of debate 15-minute city and functional reorganization mobility public space to improve quality life, health accessibility urban areas. impacts car traffic livability cities neighborhoods, terms safety, air pollution, noise, but also consumption space, are widely acknowledged. These issues not new debate: since first decades 20th century, with advent rapid diffusion...

There is great uncertainty about the transition from human to autonomous driving vehicles (AVs), as well extent and direction of their potential impacts on urban built environment. Planners are aware importance leading this but hesitant how proceed, public administrations generally show a passive attitude. One reasons difficulty defining long-term visions identifying paths achieve desired future. The literature AVs growing rapidly most proposed so far do not consider in detail circulation...

La smart mobility e oggi spesso indicata, nelle strategie per le cities promosse sia da istituzionali pubbliche – dall’Unione europea alle singole citta big player privati, come una delle strade principali, se non “la strada” eccellenza, perseguire maggiore sostenibilita dei sistemi di trasporto. Molte opportunita che essa offre in tal senso sono connesse a innovazioni tecnologiche relative alla gestione organizzazione flussi spostamento, ai mezzi trasporto; ma gli impatti tali innovazioni,...

The article presents an overview of the recent institutionalization in Italy 'Metropolitan cities' as introduced by Law 56/2014. study analyses process this new level government, rationales reform promoted and reasons for its success making Metropolitan cities effective. Problematic issues that has not solved can weaken effectiveness are also examined, underpinning specifically question boundaries inner spatial organization cities, rescaling functions from Regions Municipalities to cities.

Transit Oriented Development (TOD) is an effective way to integrate land use and transport in pursuit of the goal sustainable development. Most literature on TOD devoted station areas urban contexts; even when considered with a regional approach, suburban rural stations are poorly investigated. Analysing case study, this paper explores spatial potentialities constraints for contexts. The results show that conditions around vary substantially from those stations. A broader, more complex...

Cycle logistics is emerging as a promising alternative in urban freight transport. Compared to fossil fuelled vans, the use of cycles for delivering goods within areas offers advantages terms environmental friendliness, economic efficiency, flexibility, and liveability neighbourhood. At same time, cycle has face limits weight volume that can be delivered, distances covered, spatial structures served. This latter issue till now received less attention scientific literature: it generally...

In the last twenty years, Transit oriented development (TOD) has received increasing attention all over world. It is recognized as a planning approach that allows to pursue, on one hand, more sustainable mobility patterns are less dependent car and based rail usage; other it in line with strategies promote polycentric contrast urban sprawl. this sense, seems quite suitable be applied Italian metropolitan areas, where recently many suburban railways have been reorganized integrated...

L'attuale crisi economico-finanziaria, pur caratterizzata da cause e dinamiche di scala globale, sta mostrando impatti fortemente differenziati in termini geografici spaziali, anche a livello urbano. Primi studi sono stati condotti sulle cittŕ della grande finanza, mancano invece su che presentano tuttora una forte componente industriale. Attraverso l'analisi serie indicatori socioeconomici, l'articolo mostra come la abbia colpito nel corso del 2009 l'area torinese misura piů significativa...

Integrating land use and transport planning is seen as a key approach to pursue more sustainable mobility patterns, but it requires an interdisciplinary pedagogy for those who will be working in these fields: architects, spatial planners engineers. This paper systematically examines – using syllabi analysis teacher questionnaires around 200 academic degree programmes offered by Italian universities, verify how what extent this topic taught future professionals. The findings show that the...