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Author Tira, Maurizio

Title Pedestrians, Urban Spaces and Health Proceedings of the XXIV International Conference on Living and Walking in Cities (LWC, September 12-13, 2019, Brescia, Italy)
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (279 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Organizing Committee -- Introduction -- Pedestrians, urban spaces and health -- Network and infrastructure to improve pedestrian mobility -- E-thinking the road infrastructure for new urban mobility needs -- Sensitivity analysis and the alternative optimization of the pedestrian level of service: Some considerations applied to apedestrian street in Greece -- Urban spaces and mobility in Makkah city: Ordinary organization and big events
Increasing urban walkability: Evidences from aparticipatory process based on spatial configuration analysis -- Auditing streets' pedestrian compatibility: Astudy of school sites' requalification -- Sustainable and resilient urban spaces -- Improving city resilience through demand and supply urban dynamics -- Definition of pedestrian friendly street parameters and evaluation in the case of Erzurum city -- Well-being, perception, participation and mobility strategieS. The sustainability of the contemporary city. -- Urban resilience and anthropic risks. The case of the Polcevera Valley in Genoa
Gamification for the enhancement of urban spaces: Cases and tools -- Nature-based solutions for urban resilience -- Walkability and redevelopment -- The walkability of a city with difficult terrain- evaluation of barriers to use of spatial qualities for users and main guidelines for improvement -- Spillover effect of urban regeneration on pedestrian accessibility and walkability -- Pedestrian mobility as urban regeneration strategy -- Urban accessibility as an approach for the regeneration of urban peripheries. The experience of the Sant'Avendrace district in Cagliari
In field assessment of existing pedestrian paths: Acomprehensive approach towards pedestrian oriented neighbourhoods -- Acitizen science approach to assess the perceived walkable environment and identify elements that influence pedestrian experience at the University of Malta -- Freewheeling thoughts about public space -- Green infrastructures / Public transport -- Green infrastructures for urban and territorial regeneration. The sustainability of the contemporary city of Somerville -- Boston healthy city: The harborwalk experience
The node-place model to improve walkability in railway station catchment areas to promote healthy city environments. An application to the municipality of Cercola (NA) -- HSR stations' urban redevelopments as an impulse for pedestrian mobility. An evaluation model for acomparative perspective -- Sustainable, safe and resilient urban spaces -- Open source data and tools for disaster risk management: Definition of urban exposure index -- Strategies able to improve the level of safety and protection from seismic and hydro-geo-morphological risks
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Flood vulnerability functions for people and vehicles in urban areas
Form Electronic book
Author Pezzagno, Michèle
Richiedei, Anna
ISBN 9781000296907
1000296903