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Climate changes produce harmful effects on physical, biological and human system, particularly on human health; the possibility to reduce negative impact of phenomena as the urban heat island, the frequency, intensity and duration of extreme precipitations, the heat waves and cool waves, depends on the capacity to plan urban settlements improving their resilience. The green infrastructure planning and the assessment of urban quality in relation to ecosystem services are affirming as outcomes of studies and researches in urban planning. The Municipal Master Plan of Qualiano is an experimentation of green infrastructure planning according to an ecosystem approach aimed to improve ecosystem services supply at a local scale. Furthermore, it is a significant case of Metropolitan Ecological Network realized by a bottom-up approach: despite the lack of a metropolitan plan, in fact, it is possible to evaluate ecosystem values of landscape, both natural and urban, and to plan them with an integrated approach to increase ecosystem services.
Francesco Domenico Moccia; Antonia Arena. The Green Infrastructure Instrument for the Metropolitan Area of Naples: Experimentations Through Local Planning. Ecoregional Green Roofs 2020, 101 -111.
AMA StyleFrancesco Domenico Moccia, Antonia Arena. The Green Infrastructure Instrument for the Metropolitan Area of Naples: Experimentations Through Local Planning. Ecoregional Green Roofs. 2020; ():101-111.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFrancesco Domenico Moccia; Antonia Arena. 2020. "The Green Infrastructure Instrument for the Metropolitan Area of Naples: Experimentations Through Local Planning." Ecoregional Green Roofs , no. : 101-111.
Flood risk is increasing all over the globe due to urbanization and the effects of climate change. Water managers and urban planners try to cope with flood risk by enhancing urban flood resilience. Three main discourses of resilience are engineering, ecological, and socio-ecological resilience. Whereas the discourse of engineering resilience emphasizes the use of flood protection infrastructures, the discourses of ecological and socio-ecological resilience advocate river restoration and spatial strategies to reduce flood risk. In this paper, we investigate which resilience discourse is dominant in the Lambro river basin (Metropolitan City of Milan), and how this discourse has been translated into institutions (rules-in-use) and outcomes, such as flood protection infrastructures or building regulations. Our discursive-institutional analysis is informed by the (politicized) Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework, which highlights the role of discursive, institutional, and contextual factors in explaining the outcomes of strategic interactions within action arenas. It is shown that whereas bottom-up initiatives try to foster socio-ecological resilience, the engineering resilience discourse still dominates within the Lambro river basin because national policies and funds are geared towards hard infrastructure measures.
Corinne Vitale; Sander Meijerink; Francesco Domenico Moccia; Peter Ache. Urban flood resilience, a discursive-institutional analysis of planning practices in the Metropolitan City of Milan. Land Use Policy 2020, 95, 104575 .
AMA StyleCorinne Vitale, Sander Meijerink, Francesco Domenico Moccia, Peter Ache. Urban flood resilience, a discursive-institutional analysis of planning practices in the Metropolitan City of Milan. Land Use Policy. 2020; 95 ():104575.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCorinne Vitale; Sander Meijerink; Francesco Domenico Moccia; Peter Ache. 2020. "Urban flood resilience, a discursive-institutional analysis of planning practices in the Metropolitan City of Milan." Land Use Policy 95, no. : 104575.
It is widely accepted that land use and public transport planning should be harmonised in order to provide a viable alternative to car transport. Following the Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) concept, many studies and plans aim to concentrate urban development in areas accessible by high-quality public transport. Encouraged by studies asserting the positive relation between urban density and public transport use, scholars and practitioners focused their attention on tools and strategies that increase urban density, thereby overlooking geographical contexts where these strategies cannot be applied. TOD might however be also a valuable strategy in low-density contexts, like lower density parts of metropolitan areas, or suburban areas and small towns. It seems therefore relevant and interesting to develop a methodology to explore the value of TOD strategies in such contexts. Our paper fills this analytical and application gap and proposes to extend the conceptualization and implementation of land use and public transport integration to areas where low-density urban development has already occurred (e.g., low-density suburbs, or areas where the protection of natural and cultural heritage precedes urban development). In such cases, where is not possible to increase urban density around transport nodes, the quality of the transport network plays a decisive role. The approach builds on the Node-Place Model by including evaluations of the quality of feeder networks. We applied the methodology to a case study in the Campania Region in southern Italy, indicating a possible way to evaluate land use and public transport integration while considering, at the same time, the quality of transport as network. The application of the methodology allowed to highlight imbalances between accessibility – by main and feeder transport – and land use intensity, and to sketch urban development strategies and priorities of intervention on the transport network.
Antonio Nigro; Luca Bertolini; Francesco Domenico Moccia. Land use and public transport integration in small cities and towns: Assessment methodology and application. Journal of Transport Geography 2018, 74, 110 -124.
AMA StyleAntonio Nigro, Luca Bertolini, Francesco Domenico Moccia. Land use and public transport integration in small cities and towns: Assessment methodology and application. Journal of Transport Geography. 2018; 74 ():110-124.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAntonio Nigro; Luca Bertolini; Francesco Domenico Moccia. 2018. "Land use and public transport integration in small cities and towns: Assessment methodology and application." Journal of Transport Geography 74, no. : 110-124.
European urban policy, after a pilot program, was widely experimented with Urban. In a second step, the urban issue was integrated in one axis of Operative Regional Programs for the Regional Development Funds. This move let suppose that it could fuel the development of peripheral metropolis, but the program was anchored to the aims of its start and was still used more as in an equitable perspective to rehabilitate distressed neighborhoods or support medium size cities instead of focus over a metropolitan policy aimed to the growth of competiveness. On the contrary, the Italian metropolis more active in the process of confronting with global competition and changing themselves to develop factors identified as indicators of global cities, relied on urban policy enacted by city government, based on local resources with the support of state funding. On the bases of this review, it does not seems that nor a European neither a national policy now exists to support peripheral metropolis in the continent.
Francesco Domenico Moccia. European Union Urban Policy does not Meet Development of Peripheral European Metropolis. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 2016, 223, 394 -401.
AMA StyleFrancesco Domenico Moccia. European Union Urban Policy does not Meet Development of Peripheral European Metropolis. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences. 2016; 223 ():394-401.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFrancesco Domenico Moccia. 2016. "European Union Urban Policy does not Meet Development of Peripheral European Metropolis." Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 223, no. : 394-401.