Francesco Alberti

Prof. Dr. Francesco Alberti

Department of Architecture (DiDA), Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Tuscany, Italy
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Academic Career Length

5Years (2022-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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16 March 2022 in TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
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ARAntonella Radicchi
Antonella Radicchi
This paper presents the results of a critical analysis of the 15-Minute City concept, developed through a comparative analysis of three case studies: the ville du quart d’heure in Paris, the Superilla plan in Barcelona and the Piazze Aperte programme in Milan. This comparative analysis is addressed through the lens of the theoretical and design paradigm of civic design/capital web and aims to highlight the limits and potential of these models and inform future research directions to pursue the eco-social transition of urban systems.


25 May 2023 in The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
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Francesco Alberti
Adriano AlessandriniAdriano Alessandrini
Adriano Alessandrini
DBD. Bubboloni
D. Bubboloni
CCC. Catalano
C. Catalano
Marco FanfaniMarco Fanfani
Marco Fanfani
Andrea PaliottoAndrea Paliotto
Andrea Paliotto
Transport planning and mobility management is nowadays of paramount importance, particularly in the urban context where innovative, sustainable, smart, and green mobility solutions are required to satisfy the citizen’s needs. Such ambitious objective requires a multidisciplinary research approach to address the problem from different perspectives from urban and geographical analysis to social studies including 3D mapping and urban infrastructure analysis. To collect and manage huge amount of data acquired and produced, big data and IOT/IOE technologies are exploited together with 3D city digital twin representations of the urban scenario to simulate, plan and evaluate urban policies and guide the urban development of the future. In this paper, the activities that will be carried out by an interdisciplinary group of researchers of the University of Florence, within the sustainable mobility centre (MOST), are presented and discussed.


28 June 2023 in Sustainability
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Francesco Alberti
The subject of the paper is the street, seen as a structuring and emblematic element of urban settlement. The topic is addressed from the lens of regenerative design, whose underlying whole-system, multi-scalar, and dynamic approach can find urban connections to be a fruitful field of experimentation from the perspective of the post-automobile city. The first part of the paper traces the stages of the transport mechanization process and related impacts on urban patterns, emphasizing the voices critical of reducing streets to mere traffic channels that have accompanied it, until the sustainability discourse led to a general rethinking of how mobility should be planned in cities. The second part of the paper reviews alternative urban visions to the still prevailing car-oriented model, which re-actualize the idea of the street as a multifunctional space, providing social and environmental ‘returns’ in addition to its role as a transport infrastructure. The notion of the street as a ‘space of potential’ is then developed through an inductive classification of regenerative actions at different scales, both material and immaterial, as well as permanent and temporary, thus providing a unifying conceptual framework for further research and practical applications in the fields of urban design and sustainable mobility.