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Prof. Chiara Garau
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture, University of Cagliari, 09123 Cagliari, Italy

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Published: 11 May 2021 in Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
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Processes of urbanization, market liberalization and exploitation of heritage can engender the fragmentation and deterioration of historical urban landscapes. Cultural paths are a central aspect of policies of cultural heritage valorisation. Hence, this study proposes the Cultural Paths Assessment Tool (PAST) as a methodological framework for individuating a network of paths connecting cultural heritage components and for assessing their usefulness. The relevance of the PAST lies in the combination of Space Syntax techniques, GIS analytic tools and qualitative analysis within a Multi-criteria analysis framework. The proposed methodology—applied to the analysis of the historical district of Marina in the city of Cagliari (Italy)—addresses the need to establish methodologies and analytic tools that support decision making processes for conserving, managing and valorising historic Urban landscapes.

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Alfonso Annunziata; Chiara Garau. Identification and Assessment of Thematic Paths Through the Cultural Paths Assessment Tool (PAST). The Case Study of Cagliari, Italy. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering 2021, 541 -550.

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Alfonso Annunziata, Chiara Garau. Identification and Assessment of Thematic Paths Through the Cultural Paths Assessment Tool (PAST). The Case Study of Cagliari, Italy. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering. 2021; ():541-550.

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Alfonso Annunziata; Chiara Garau. 2021. "Identification and Assessment of Thematic Paths Through the Cultural Paths Assessment Tool (PAST). The Case Study of Cagliari, Italy." Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering , no. : 541-550.

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Published: 11 May 2021 in Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
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This paper intends to enhance the tourist offer in a dynamic meaning in which, referring to the paradigm of resilience and smartness, aims at the so-called multicultural tourism, suggesting for Sardinia the proposal for an integrated offer of typologically different goods. This offer is also adaptable to different needs without losing sight of all the territorial determinants that contribute to enhancing the central effects which, in a nutshell, are closely correlated with the prevailing cultural good. The proposals will take into consideration two factors: the first is the evolution of the demand for interest of users in a framework of components not only of cultural heritage but also of other factors that contribute to the characterization and identity of the context. The second will consider the possibility that the integrated offer of cultural goods proposed may vary in real time due to an evolution in the demand of the users and due to the different evolutions of the territory of a natural or artificial type. This objective will be achieved considering first of all the most used cultural assets, and then systematically aggregate different tourist offers, aimed at enhancing the two main economic natures of Sardinia, that of cultural heritage and the pastoral agricultural one, which, at present, do not appear almost never present in integrated actions within common programming activities.

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Chiara Garau; Giulia Desogus; Federica Banchiero; Pasquale Mistretta. A Multicultural Tourism for Evaluating the Cultural Heritage: The Case Study of the Region of Sardinia (Italy). Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering 2021, 551 -560.

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Chiara Garau, Giulia Desogus, Federica Banchiero, Pasquale Mistretta. A Multicultural Tourism for Evaluating the Cultural Heritage: The Case Study of the Region of Sardinia (Italy). Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering. 2021; ():551-560.

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Chiara Garau; Giulia Desogus; Federica Banchiero; Pasquale Mistretta. 2021. "A Multicultural Tourism for Evaluating the Cultural Heritage: The Case Study of the Region of Sardinia (Italy)." Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering , no. : 551-560.

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Published: 19 March 2021 in Sustainability
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Bill Hillier’s space syntax method and theory enables us to describe the spatial properties of a sustainable city. Empirical testing of the space syntax method over time has confirmed the capacity and innovativeness of analyzing spatial relationships with the purpose of understanding and explaining the socio-spatial organization of built environments. However, the conceptual framework of space syntax elements is scattered around in various academic writings. This article, therefore, gives a holistic and compact overview of the various concepts that are used in space syntax, from its basic elements to various analytical techniques and theories. To achieve this compact overview, we reviewed all space syntax literature accessible since the 1970s for finding core references to various concepts used in space syntax. Following a short description of its foundation and evolution through the work of Bill Hillier, we explain its basic concepts and measures in the form of an extended glossary. Explanations are enriched with various space syntax analyses and scenario testing on various scales that were applied to the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. We conclude with a discussion about the advantages and limitations of space syntax and about how this method adds value to the creation of sustainable cities.

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Claudia Yamu; Akkelies van Nes; Chiara Garau. Bill Hillier’s Legacy: Space Syntax—A Synopsis of Basic Concepts, Measures, and Empirical Application. Sustainability 2021, 13, 3394 .

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Claudia Yamu, Akkelies van Nes, Chiara Garau. Bill Hillier’s Legacy: Space Syntax—A Synopsis of Basic Concepts, Measures, and Empirical Application. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (6):3394.

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Claudia Yamu; Akkelies van Nes; Chiara Garau. 2021. "Bill Hillier’s Legacy: Space Syntax—A Synopsis of Basic Concepts, Measures, and Empirical Application." Sustainability 13, no. 6: 3394.

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Published: 12 March 2021 in Computers and Games
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Osvaldo Gervasi; Beniamino Murgante; Sanjay Misra; Chiara Garau; Ivan Blečić; David Taniar; Bernady O. Apduhan; Ana Maria A. C. Rocha; Eufemia Tarantino; Carmelo Maria Torre; Yeliz Karaca. Correction to: Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2020. Computers and Games 2021, 12249, C1 -C1.

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Osvaldo Gervasi, Beniamino Murgante, Sanjay Misra, Chiara Garau, Ivan Blečić, David Taniar, Bernady O. Apduhan, Ana Maria A. C. Rocha, Eufemia Tarantino, Carmelo Maria Torre, Yeliz Karaca. Correction to: Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2020. Computers and Games. 2021; 12249 ():C1-C1.

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Osvaldo Gervasi; Beniamino Murgante; Sanjay Misra; Chiara Garau; Ivan Blečić; David Taniar; Bernady O. Apduhan; Ana Maria A. C. Rocha; Eufemia Tarantino; Carmelo Maria Torre; Yeliz Karaca. 2021. "Correction to: Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2020." Computers and Games 12249, no. : C1-C1.

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Published: 05 November 2020 in European Planning Studies
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Chiara Garau; Giulia Desogus; Anastasia Stratigea. Territorial cohesion in insular contexts: assessing external attractiveness and internal strength of major Mediterranean islands. European Planning Studies 2020, 1 -20.

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Chiara Garau, Giulia Desogus, Anastasia Stratigea. Territorial cohesion in insular contexts: assessing external attractiveness and internal strength of major Mediterranean islands. European Planning Studies. 2020; ():1-20.

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Chiara Garau; Giulia Desogus; Anastasia Stratigea. 2020. "Territorial cohesion in insular contexts: assessing external attractiveness and internal strength of major Mediterranean islands." European Planning Studies , no. : 1-20.

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Published: 11 October 2020 in Sustainability
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The global process of urbanization, and the modification of social interaction determined by the pandemic crisis, poses the issue of the place of vulnerable users and, in particular, children, within the contemporary city. This research aimed to elaborate a theoretical and methodological framework, based on the concepts of affordance and capability, for analyzing the potential of public spaces to enable and support children’s independent activities. This potential, or meaningful usefulness, is expressed by the Index of Meaningful Usefulness of public Urban Spaces (IUIS). The latter is calculated via the tool ‘Opportunities for Children in Urban Spaces’ (OCUS). This methodology is applied to the analysis of significant public spaces within the historic center of the city of Iglesias in Sardinia, Italy. The results reveal adequate usefulness of the selected spaces, while underlining criticalities related to intrinsic spatial and physical attributes. The application to the case study confirms the validity of the theoretical and methodological framework embodied in the OCUS tool for supporting urban design and planning by orienting place-shaping processes towards the acknowledgement of children’s needs.

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Chiara Garau; Alfonso Annunziata. Supporting Children’s Independent Activities in Smart and Playable Public Places. Sustainability 2020, 12, 8352 .

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Chiara Garau, Alfonso Annunziata. Supporting Children’s Independent Activities in Smart and Playable Public Places. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (20):8352.

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Chiara Garau; Alfonso Annunziata. 2020. "Supporting Children’s Independent Activities in Smart and Playable Public Places." Sustainability 12, no. 20: 8352.

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Published: 30 September 2020 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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Onboard bus comfort significantly depends on the bus lanes characteristics, such as horizontal curvature, pavement roughness, longitudinal, and transversal slope. A literature review shows a statistical relationship between acceleration level and passenger features, such as age and gender. A large number of onboard interviews have been collected and correlated to bus-lane geometry parameters, to evaluate the vibrational comfort of different passengers. Passenger’s judgments are related to the lateral, longitudinal, and vertical shake. At the same time, a geometric investigation on bus-lane corridors, traveled during interviews, in the city of Cagliari in Italy allowed to extract infrastructure parameters in terms of numbers and density of turns, horizontal curvature radius, speed design, and acceleration variance. The paper analyzed the correlation between some geometric and cinematics road parameters that may affect the comfort and the different passenger’s judgments on the three acceleration components by age classes and hourly day. The results generally show weak correlations between the selected parameters and passenger judgments. Conversely, travel speeds have significant correlation values. There is a moderate inverse correlation between the vibrational level and the age of the passengers. The younger age groups tend to have more severe judgments, attributable to their higher demand for comfort. The presence of preferential lanes increases the onboard comfort quality in terms of speed regularity, without private cars interferences.

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Mauro Coni; Francesca Maltinti; Francesco Pinna; Nicoletta Rassu; Chiara Garau; Benedetto Barabino; Giulio Maternini. On-Board Comfort of Different Age Passengers and Bus-Lane Characteristics. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2020, 12255, 658 -672.

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Mauro Coni, Francesca Maltinti, Francesco Pinna, Nicoletta Rassu, Chiara Garau, Benedetto Barabino, Giulio Maternini. On-Board Comfort of Different Age Passengers and Bus-Lane Characteristics. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2020; 12255 ():658-672.

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Mauro Coni; Francesca Maltinti; Francesco Pinna; Nicoletta Rassu; Chiara Garau; Benedetto Barabino; Giulio Maternini. 2020. "On-Board Comfort of Different Age Passengers and Bus-Lane Characteristics." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 12255, no. : 658-672.

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Published: 30 September 2020 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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Urbanization identifies the contemporary city as the crucible of human condition. This tendency elicits the issue of the ways in which the built environment affects human behaviour. In particular, walking emerges as a central topic. Walking, in fact, is conceptualized as a vector for engaging with the world, and as a conduit to physical activity, social contact and optional practices. Consequently, a vast body of literature exists, related to the concept of walkability. The latter can be defined as the built environment potential to affect people’s propensity to walk to different destinations and for different purposes. This study, through a comprehensive literature review investigates four concepts: capability; affordance; configuration and Urban ethics. These concepts embody four central dimensions of the research on walkability: arguments for investigating walkability; conceptualization of person-environment transactions; methodologies and ethical implications. The aim of this study, thus, is to individuate the theoretical framework for a precise understanding of the impact of the built environment on human behaviour and to underline perspectives for the further development of the research on walkability.

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Alfonso Annunziata; Chiara Garau. A Literature Review on Walkability and its Theoretical Framework. Emerging Perspectives for Research Developments. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2020, 12255, 422 -437.

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Alfonso Annunziata, Chiara Garau. A Literature Review on Walkability and its Theoretical Framework. Emerging Perspectives for Research Developments. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2020; 12255 ():422-437.

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Alfonso Annunziata; Chiara Garau. 2020. "A Literature Review on Walkability and its Theoretical Framework. Emerging Perspectives for Research Developments." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 12255, no. : 422-437.

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Published: 30 September 2020 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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Today’s cities are meeting places, economic and social development centers, where all citizens should have the opportunity to live and move, according to adequate quality of life standards. However, this does not always correspond to reality in particular for the most vulnerable categories of the population. So, UN’s 2030 Agenda underlines the need to make cities inclusive and accessible by means, for instance, a suitable transport system for all, and in particular for vulnerable people as older people. A lot of studies presented interesting contributes on how older people choose to move and initiatives taken to address their public transport requirements, but no attention has been given to evaluate expected and perceived quality of public transport system, particularly referring to older people. So, the aim of this study is to highlight which should be the most important attributes of a public transport service (PTS) for over 65 years old passengers and if the local PTS satisfy their desires. By an intercept on board survey in the metropolitan area of Cagliari, it has been shown that, for all users, PTS appears qualitatively adequate with respect to each attribute analysed and vulnerable customers are more satisfied than all.

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Francesca Maltinti; Nicoletta Rassu; Mauro Coni; Chiara Garau; Francesco Pinna; Roberto Devoto; Benedetto Barabino. Vulnerable Users and Public Transport Service: Analysis on Expected and Perceived Quality Data. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2020, 12255, 673 -689.

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Francesca Maltinti, Nicoletta Rassu, Mauro Coni, Chiara Garau, Francesco Pinna, Roberto Devoto, Benedetto Barabino. Vulnerable Users and Public Transport Service: Analysis on Expected and Perceived Quality Data. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2020; 12255 ():673-689.

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Francesca Maltinti; Nicoletta Rassu; Mauro Coni; Chiara Garau; Francesco Pinna; Roberto Devoto; Benedetto Barabino. 2020. "Vulnerable Users and Public Transport Service: Analysis on Expected and Perceived Quality Data." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 12255, no. : 673-689.

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Published: 30 September 2020 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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The paper is focused on the evolution of the concept of accessibility, by considering data of the World Health Organization (WHO) and of the Istat (Italian statistical institute). From these data it emerges that the population (worldwide and in Italy) dealing with disability represents an important share of the total. These disabilities are linked not only with disease, but also with other situation due to age, size, language, culture, job, etc. For this reason, this paper analyses how the way of seeing and dealing disability is changed over time, starting from the Italian Standard evolution. Then the action of the WHO is analyzed. The two WHO focus points are: i) disability is a health condition in an unfavorable environment; ii) disability is not a problem of a minority group within a community, but an experience that everyone, in their lifetime, can experience. All of these analyses underlined the importance of the environment influence on life of every person. Finally, the concept of Universal design UD is investigated, highlighting the importance of recognizing and understanding that human beings will have different steps in their abilities throughout their life. The originality of this research is the shifting of the attention also to people normally served by poor services, such as people of small stature, the elderly, pregnant women, parents with children in strollers, people who speak different languages and more.

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Francesco Pinna; Chiara Garau; Francesca Maltinti; Mauro Coni. Beyond Architectural Barriers: Building a Bridge Between Disability and Universal Design. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2020, 12255, 706 -721.

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Francesco Pinna, Chiara Garau, Francesca Maltinti, Mauro Coni. Beyond Architectural Barriers: Building a Bridge Between Disability and Universal Design. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2020; 12255 ():706-721.

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Francesco Pinna; Chiara Garau; Francesca Maltinti; Mauro Coni. 2020. "Beyond Architectural Barriers: Building a Bridge Between Disability and Universal Design." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 12255, no. : 706-721.

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Published: 30 September 2020 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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The poor transport system in Sardinia, particularly in the inner areas, affects the social-economic development and the determinants of the productive activities. After illustrating the specificities of these areas in terms of transport accessibility, orography, and the relationship between populations, a new territorial organization is proposed, integrating the new tendencies in mobility. The development of the transport system of these marginal areas plays a key role in future scenarios. In the paper, some analysis highlights the infrastructural weaknesses and the limited accessibility of the inner areas and its negative effects on the local economy. These can be overcome fixing reference hubs, with the function of supplying services and connecting most developed and rich territories located in the coastal areas. On a regional basis, the reference hubs would accomplish the task of a firm, efficient link with the mainland, while the minor hubs would have the function of spreading the urban impact throughout the territory. The strategy matches with the improvement in land accessibility, with vast intervention on the inner road system, and with the creation of a system of strong links with the main urban settlements of the island and with the regional and national transport network. A further strategy is maximizing the integration among infrastructural systems, productive structures, agricultural areas, services, and residential centers, with the perspective of promoting the tourist and environmental vocation of Sardinia. Finally, a new criteria for the infrastructures, integration of the different transport modes with the main transport terminals, is proposed.

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Mauro Coni; Chiara Garau; Francesca Maltinti; Francesco Pinna. Accessibility Improvements and Place-Based Organization in the Island of Sardinia (Italy). Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2020, 12255, 337 -352.

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Mauro Coni, Chiara Garau, Francesca Maltinti, Francesco Pinna. Accessibility Improvements and Place-Based Organization in the Island of Sardinia (Italy). Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2020; 12255 ():337-352.

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Mauro Coni; Chiara Garau; Francesca Maltinti; Francesco Pinna. 2020. "Accessibility Improvements and Place-Based Organization in the Island of Sardinia (Italy)." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 12255, no. : 337-352.

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Published: 30 September 2020 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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Cities play a fundamental role not only in the growth processes under the sustainability paradigm, but also as a driving-force behind economy and they constitute places of connectivity and innovation. More than two thirds of the European population live in urban areas and this percentage is continuously growing. Therefore, cities are fundamental hubs of the transport system, since most journeys start or end within urban areas. The direct consequence is that many of the negative transport externalities, such as congestion, road accidents and pollution, have the greatest impacts in these contexts. The European Commission emphasized integrated planning at all mobility level to enhance new forms of sustainable urban mobility, in order to reduce externalities associated with transport sector. In this view, the aim of this paper is to analyze the European guidelines for the development and the implementation of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) and the corresponding Italian guidelines for the preparation of so-called “Piani Urbani della Mobilità Sostenibile” (PUMS). A comparative evaluation is proposed to emphasize the new paradigm of sustainable transport planning and highlight critical evidence between the European legal tools and their transposition at national level, also in the light of their recent updates. The results of this analysis lay the basis for the critical assessment of best practices and the review of related SUMP, in order to identify the key elements to assist traffic planners and managers in their decision-making procedures for the identification of successful strategies and the implementation of effective actions towards sustainable mobility.

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Vincenza Torrisi; Chiara Garau; Matteo Ignaccolo; Giuseppe Inturri. “Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans”: Key Concepts and a Critical Revision on SUMPs Guidelines. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2020, 12255, 613 -628.

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Vincenza Torrisi, Chiara Garau, Matteo Ignaccolo, Giuseppe Inturri. “Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans”: Key Concepts and a Critical Revision on SUMPs Guidelines. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2020; 12255 ():613-628.

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Vincenza Torrisi; Chiara Garau; Matteo Ignaccolo; Giuseppe Inturri. 2020. "“Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans”: Key Concepts and a Critical Revision on SUMPs Guidelines." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 12255, no. : 613-628.

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Published: 30 September 2020 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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The purpose of the article is to evaluate territorial hierarchies, internal to an island context, through the theory of central places. To this end, the authors want to demonstrate how some key points of these theories are still relevant all the more if applied to geographically closed contexts, such as an island. Starting from these premises, this paper begins with a literature revision on the most important theories on central places with particular reference to the theories closest to contemporary world. Therefore, the authors study the attraction and aggregation potential of the Sardinian case study, defined by the most suitable localization theories for studying island contexts. This allowed not only to study the analysis of flows through a territorial-hierarchical model, under the theoretical assumptions of the Central Places Theories (CPTs), but also to develop a model and a reticular system on several levels, starting from the population data. This paper shows a first phase of a wider research and provides a bibliographic framework to understand how the theories of central places are still suitable for studying a closed system like an island.

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Chiara Garau; Giulia Desogus; Federica Banchiero; Pasquale Mistretta. Reticular Systems to Identify Aggregation and Attraction Potentials in Island Contexts. The Case Study of Sardinia (Italy). Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2020, 12255, 294 -308.

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Chiara Garau, Giulia Desogus, Federica Banchiero, Pasquale Mistretta. Reticular Systems to Identify Aggregation and Attraction Potentials in Island Contexts. The Case Study of Sardinia (Italy). Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2020; 12255 ():294-308.

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Chiara Garau; Giulia Desogus; Federica Banchiero; Pasquale Mistretta. 2020. "Reticular Systems to Identify Aggregation and Attraction Potentials in Island Contexts. The Case Study of Sardinia (Italy)." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 12255, no. : 294-308.

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Published: 30 September 2020 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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One of the most challenging aspects of the actual smart city trend is to keep under control the environmental parameters with the aim of general sustainability. The impact of daily activities of humans in the city is presently very evident. The geographical and social characteristics of the cities may react and facilitate the sustainability as well as may really influence how the city may be more or less resilient to certain pollution production. After investigating the theoretical concept of Smart Sustainable City (SSC), this paper reported the work performed in supporting the aforementioned trend and analysis in three European cities (Florence, Helsinki and Cagliari) that despite having different characteristics for population and density, have some similarities, such as geomorphic aspects. In addition, two of them present a relevant port (Helsinki and Cagliari), two of them have similar urban complexity, such as traffic (Florence and Helsinki). The work presented has exploited Snap4City big data for smart city infrastructure and has been developed in the context of Snap4City, Trafair, and GHOST projects. The results have shown that critical aspects have been identified over time for pollution issues, in particular with PM10 and NOX.

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Chiara Garau; Paolo Nesi; Irene Paoli; Michela Paolucci; Paola Zamperlin. A Big Data Platform for Smart and Sustainable Cities: Environmental Monitoring Case Studies in Europe. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2020, 12255, 393 -406.

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Chiara Garau, Paolo Nesi, Irene Paoli, Michela Paolucci, Paola Zamperlin. A Big Data Platform for Smart and Sustainable Cities: Environmental Monitoring Case Studies in Europe. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2020; 12255 ():393-406.

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Chiara Garau; Paolo Nesi; Irene Paoli; Michela Paolucci; Paola Zamperlin. 2020. "A Big Data Platform for Smart and Sustainable Cities: Environmental Monitoring Case Studies in Europe." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 12255, no. : 393-406.

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Published: 30 September 2020 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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The principle that inspired the authors in the preparation of this study is the concept of “expanded accessibility” in terms of usability of spaces, places and services, for their users. From here, in the face of the periodic survey work carried out on local public transport vehicles managed by the transport company of the Municipality of Cagliari, the characteristics of the overall sample have been designated. The data sample is analyzed with focus on elderly people. Some statements are reported to show how much and how these passenger use public transport and related technological services. Finally this segment of demand is compared with the complementary one (under 65 years). The outcomes show that the key elements that distinguish the two segments concern multimodality and technological services.

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Rassu Nicoletta; Francesca Maltinti; Mauro Coni; Chiara Garau; Benedetto Barabino; Francesco Pinna; Roberto Devoto. Accessibility to Local Public Transport in Cagliari with Focus on the Elderly. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2020, 12255, 690 -705.

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Rassu Nicoletta, Francesca Maltinti, Mauro Coni, Chiara Garau, Benedetto Barabino, Francesco Pinna, Roberto Devoto. Accessibility to Local Public Transport in Cagliari with Focus on the Elderly. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2020; 12255 ():690-705.

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Rassu Nicoletta; Francesca Maltinti; Mauro Coni; Chiara Garau; Benedetto Barabino; Francesco Pinna; Roberto Devoto. 2020. "Accessibility to Local Public Transport in Cagliari with Focus on the Elderly." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 12255, no. : 690-705.

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Published: 04 September 2020
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The global process of urbanization, and the modification of social interaction determined by the pandemic crisis poses the issue of the place of vulnerable users, and in particular children, within the contemporary city. This research aims to elaborate a theoretical and methodological framework, based on the concepts of affordance and capability, for analyzing the potential of public spaces to enable and support children’s independent activities. This potential, or meaningful usefulness, is expressed by the Index of Meaningful Usefulness of public Urban Spaces (IUIS). The latter is calculated via the tool ‘Opportunities for Children in Urban Spaces’ (OCUS). This methodology is applied to the analysis of significant public spaces within the historic center of the city of Iglesias in Sardinia, Italy. The results reveal adequate usefulness of the selected spaces, while underlining criticalities related to intrinsic spatial and physical attributes. The application to the case study confirms the validity of the theoretical and methodological framework embodied in the OCUS tool for supporting urban design and planning by orienting place-shaping processes towards the acknowledgement of children’s needs.

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Chiara Garau; Alfonso Annunziata. Supporting Children’s Independent Activities in Smart and Playable Public Places. 2020, 1 .

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Chiara Garau, Alfonso Annunziata. Supporting Children’s Independent Activities in Smart and Playable Public Places. . 2020; ():1.

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Chiara Garau; Alfonso Annunziata. 2020. "Supporting Children’s Independent Activities in Smart and Playable Public Places." , no. : 1.

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Published: 08 July 2020 in Sustainability
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Thematic paths are a central aspect of urban policies for cultural heritage valorization. In fact, thematic paths are central spatial features for structuring the image of a historical landscape. Hence, this study proposes the cultural paths assessment tool (PAST) as a methodological framework for individuating a network of routes connecting cultural heritage components and for assessing their usefulness. Usefulness is herein defined as the potential of a street network to support the meaningful experience of a historical urban landscape. PAST combines space syntax techniques, a geographic information system, and a qualitative analysis within a multi-criteria analysis framework for addressing four aspects of connecting cultural heritage components, including: (i) the individuation of relevant assets; (ii) the identification of the sub-network of most central street segments; (iii) the definition of the street network of thematic routes; (iv) the assessment of the usefulness of thematic paths, according to the criteria of usability, imageability, and accessibility. The proposed methodology, applied to the historical district of Marina in the city of Cagliari in Italy, supports planning and design processes in two ways: (1) by identifying street segments and squares comprising a network of thematic routes; (2) by individuating high-leverage interventions for improving the usefulness of thematic routes. Consequently, the proposed study addresses the need to establish methodologies and analytic tools that support decision making processes for conserving, managing, and valorizing historic urban landscapes.

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Chiara Garau; Alfonso Annunziata; Claudia Yamu. The Multi-Method Tool ‘PAST’ for Evaluating Cultural Routes in Historical Cities: Evidence from Cagliari, Italy. Sustainability 2020, 12, 5513 .

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Chiara Garau, Alfonso Annunziata, Claudia Yamu. The Multi-Method Tool ‘PAST’ for Evaluating Cultural Routes in Historical Cities: Evidence from Cagliari, Italy. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (14):5513.

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Chiara Garau; Alfonso Annunziata; Claudia Yamu. 2020. "The Multi-Method Tool ‘PAST’ for Evaluating Cultural Routes in Historical Cities: Evidence from Cagliari, Italy." Sustainability 12, no. 14: 5513.

Journal article
Published: 11 September 2019 in Sustainability
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The interrelations between cities, inland areas, connecting road networks, urban, and political polarities have evolved, thereby determining economic, social, and place-based impacts. Thus, via a case study of Sardinia island (Italy), this study analyses regional transport data to evaluate the interrelations and mobility issues between the main cities and the settlement geographies of internal areas with a predominantly agricultural vocation. First, it frames the problems (common to the islands) theoretically and focuses on how the internal areas (considered marginal for a long time) have considerable material and immaterial resources to be valorised. Second, the study evaluates the internal relationship networks that characterise the island territory through the cluster and principal components analysis using origin–destination data to represent vocations and population needs. A smart governance strategy is proposed for Sardinia through an assessment of the functionality of urban settlements and interconnections between the hinterlands (the small and the main cities of the case study), following the smart region paradigm. The study underlines the importance of the interconnection between urban geographical areas. Thus, given an analytical-numerical approach, the originality of this research is highlighted in how it is possible to extract social vocations of the territory, which is generally not easily quantifiable.

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Chiara Garau; Giulia Desogus; Mauro Coni. Fostering and Planning a Smart Governance Strategy for Evaluating the Urban Polarities of the Sardinian Island (Italy). Sustainability 2019, 11, 4962 .

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Chiara Garau, Giulia Desogus, Mauro Coni. Fostering and Planning a Smart Governance Strategy for Evaluating the Urban Polarities of the Sardinian Island (Italy). Sustainability. 2019; 11 (18):4962.

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Chiara Garau; Giulia Desogus; Mauro Coni. 2019. "Fostering and Planning a Smart Governance Strategy for Evaluating the Urban Polarities of the Sardinian Island (Italy)." Sustainability 11, no. 18: 4962.

Journal article
Published: 05 September 2019 in Sustainability
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The increases in urbanization, pollution, resource depletion, and climate change underline the need for urban planning policies that incorporate blue–green infrastructure (BGI) and ecosystem services. This paper proposes a framework for assessing BGI’s effect on children’s outdoor activities. This effect, called meaningful usefulness, is a central issue due to the influence of experiences with nature on children’s development and the global trend of concentration of children in urban areas. Based on the concept of affordance, the methodology formalizes meaningful usefulness in terms of an index of usefulness of individual settings (IUIS) and a synthetic index of usefulness of BGI in a specific area (ISGI). These are determined via an audit protocol, Opportunities for Children in Urban Spaces (OCUS), which incorporates a set of indicators measuring micro-scale properties of individual places and contextual macro-scale factors. The methodology is applied to BGI components in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, which was selected for its superior density of urban green spaces. The application of the OCUS tool confirms its usefulness for investigating functional affordances incorporated into the trans-scalar structures of BGIs. The analytic protocol further contributes to the implementation of urban planning strategies within the smart city paradigm.

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Chiara Garau; Alfonso Annunziata. Smart City Governance and Children’s Agency: An Assessment of the Green Infrastructure Impact on Children’s Activities in Cagliari (Italy) with the Tool “Opportunities for Children in Urban Spaces (OCUS)”. Sustainability 2019, 11, 4848 .

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Chiara Garau, Alfonso Annunziata. Smart City Governance and Children’s Agency: An Assessment of the Green Infrastructure Impact on Children’s Activities in Cagliari (Italy) with the Tool “Opportunities for Children in Urban Spaces (OCUS)”. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (18):4848.

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Chiara Garau; Alfonso Annunziata. 2019. "Smart City Governance and Children’s Agency: An Assessment of the Green Infrastructure Impact on Children’s Activities in Cagliari (Italy) with the Tool “Opportunities for Children in Urban Spaces (OCUS)”." Sustainability 11, no. 18: 4848.

Conference paper
Published: 29 June 2019 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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This paper shows a comprehensive literature review based on a comparative method that investigates a set of 25 papers from different disciplinary fields. The articles are retrieved from the Web of Science and SCOPUS databases and individuated through queries containing the key terms child, play, city, neighbourhood, outdoor space, public space, urban space, mobility. The timeframe considered spans from 2004 to present. The analysis focuses on three related aspects: (i) methodology; (ii) conceptual apparatus describing children’s experience of spaces; (iii) green spaces and natural elements incorporated in public space design considered as determinant of children’s outdoor activities. This paper provides detailed information on the relationship between the availability of natural settings and elements and children’s outdoor practices and activities. Retrieving from previous studies the concept of practicability the authors reflect on significance of natural elements in reinforcing the potential of the built environment to promote children’s independent playful practices. This study is instrumental in structuring an analytic methodology for determining a synthetic index of the practicability of public spaces. The relevance of a methodology for assessing practicability relies on its potential to enable a better understanding of conditions conducive to children’s independent playful practices and to support governance by assisting the implementation of strategies of urban regeneration within the smart city paradigm.

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Chiara Garau; Alfonso Annunziata; David Vale. Smart City Governance and Children’s Rights: Perspectives and Findings from Literature on Natural Elements Influencing Children’s Activities Within Public Spaces. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2019, 152 -168.

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Chiara Garau, Alfonso Annunziata, David Vale. Smart City Governance and Children’s Rights: Perspectives and Findings from Literature on Natural Elements Influencing Children’s Activities Within Public Spaces. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2019; ():152-168.

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Chiara Garau; Alfonso Annunziata; David Vale. 2019. "Smart City Governance and Children’s Rights: Perspectives and Findings from Literature on Natural Elements Influencing Children’s Activities Within Public Spaces." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 152-168.