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Nađa Beretić; Valentina Talu; Arnaldo Cecchini. Emergency-Proof Tourism: The Heritage of Industrial Archaeology in Internal Areas as a Potential for a Sustainable Tourism. Sustainability 2021, 13, 3911 .
AMA StyleNađa Beretić, Valentina Talu, Arnaldo Cecchini. Emergency-Proof Tourism: The Heritage of Industrial Archaeology in Internal Areas as a Potential for a Sustainable Tourism. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (7):3911.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNađa Beretić; Valentina Talu; Arnaldo Cecchini. 2021. "Emergency-Proof Tourism: The Heritage of Industrial Archaeology in Internal Areas as a Potential for a Sustainable Tourism." Sustainability 13, no. 7: 3911.
Ivan Blecic; Arnaldo Cecchini; Valentina Talu. Approccio delle capacità e pianificazione urbana. Capacità urbane feconde e qualità della vita urbana degli abitanti più svantaggiati. ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI 2018, 34 -52.
AMA StyleIvan Blecic, Arnaldo Cecchini, Valentina Talu. Approccio delle capacità e pianificazione urbana. Capacità urbane feconde e qualità della vita urbana degli abitanti più svantaggiati. ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI. 2018; (122):34-52.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIvan Blecic; Arnaldo Cecchini; Valentina Talu. 2018. "Approccio delle capacità e pianificazione urbana. Capacità urbane feconde e qualità della vita urbana degli abitanti più svantaggiati." ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI , no. 122: 34-52.
The paper focuses on the relationship between cities and people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Specifically, this research aims to provide practical guidelines on how to design urban policies and urban design projects, such that they improve the capabilities of people with ASD to walk across the city and access relevant public urban spaces and facilities. Although this is a well-defined field of research, this paper should be seen as a contribution to the debate on the understanding of disability as a product of processes of human-environment interaction and as an attempt to address issues of mobility for people with disabilities by taking into account their personal characteristics and capabilities. Current methodological and operational efforts on the role of spatial configuration as a means for improving the autonomy of people with ASD focus almost exclusively on the design of closed, separated, private spaces, devoted only to people with ASD (mainly children). Starting from these considerations, the paper describes a research project aimed at defining an integrated set of urban mobility policies and extra-small urban design projects to provide people with ASD a real opportunity of using their city.
Arnaldo Cecchini; Tanja Congiu; Valentina Talu; Giulia Tola. Mobility Policies and Extra-Small Projects for Improving Mobility of People with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Sustainability 2018, 10, 3256 .
AMA StyleArnaldo Cecchini, Tanja Congiu, Valentina Talu, Giulia Tola. Mobility Policies and Extra-Small Projects for Improving Mobility of People with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (9):3256.
Chicago/Turabian StyleArnaldo Cecchini; Tanja Congiu; Valentina Talu; Giulia Tola. 2018. "Mobility Policies and Extra-Small Projects for Improving Mobility of People with Autism Spectrum Disorder." Sustainability 10, no. 9: 3256.
We present a method for automatic assessment of perceived walkability by pedestrans, using a machine learning technique with deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained on a dataset of georeferenced street-level images obtained from Google Street View. On a dataset of more than 17,000 human-assessed images used for training, validation and testing of CNN, out method yields an accuracy of 78% of correct and 99% of correct or 1-class-off predictions. These are quite promising, even encouraging results, paving the way for seamless large-scale applications of perceived walkability assessment on large metropolitan areas, and for a mass assessment and comparisons of walkability over many cities across regions.
Ivan Blečić; Arnaldo Cecchini; Giuseppe A. Trunfio. Towards Automatic Assessment of Perceived Walkability. Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2018, 351 -365.
AMA StyleIvan Blečić, Arnaldo Cecchini, Giuseppe A. Trunfio. Towards Automatic Assessment of Perceived Walkability. Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. 2018; ():351-365.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIvan Blečić; Arnaldo Cecchini; Giuseppe A. Trunfio. 2018. "Towards Automatic Assessment of Perceived Walkability." Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining , no. : 351-365.
We argue that antifragility is a valuable and contentful goal for planning, distinct from resilience. We present a possible conceptualisation and delineate the essential properties of an antifragile planning, its affinities with the capability approach, and discuss the possible sources of its legitimacy within the conception of a liberal-democratic state. Hence the suggestion to incorporate antifragility into both the methodology and the content of planning.
Ivan Blečić; Arnaldo Cecchini. Planning for Antifragility and Antifragility for Planning. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2018, 489 -498.
AMA StyleIvan Blečić, Arnaldo Cecchini. Planning for Antifragility and Antifragility for Planning. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2018; ():489-498.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIvan Blečić; Arnaldo Cecchini. 2018. "Planning for Antifragility and Antifragility for Planning." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes , no. : 489-498.
We present a design support tool which generates outlines of urban projects targeting user-defined walkability objectives. The tool is part of our ongoing research effort to develop not only evaluative, but also generative tools, to be used during the design process, assisting architects and urban planners in designing more walkability of cities. The tool couples the capability-wise walkability score (CAWS) evaluation method with the NSGA-II multi-objective genetic algorithm, to generate a set of non-dominated solutions whose properties and expected effects can be explored within the software tool.
Ivan Blecic; Arnaldo Cecchini; Giuseppe A. Trunfio. Computer-Aided Drafting of Urban Designs for Walkability. Computer Vision 2017, 10407, 695 -709.
AMA StyleIvan Blecic, Arnaldo Cecchini, Giuseppe A. Trunfio. Computer-Aided Drafting of Urban Designs for Walkability. Computer Vision. 2017; 10407 ():695-709.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIvan Blecic; Arnaldo Cecchini; Giuseppe A. Trunfio. 2017. "Computer-Aided Drafting of Urban Designs for Walkability." Computer Vision 10407, no. : 695-709.
We propose a decision-aiding evaluation procedure (i) for classifying road crossings based on their impact on walkability and, subsequently, (ii) for prioritising street improvements, in urban-rural fringe areas. In the peripheral urban-rural fringes, pedestrian mobility is usually less developed and people generally depend more on cars for their everyday chores. Partly this is inevitable given the structural features and supply of services and activities in such areas, but part is due to a frequent neglect of pedestrian mobility in planning and urban design. Measures to improve this state of affairs can include the design of more pedestrian-friendly environments offering to potential users a greater level of security, comfort and convenience when walking to their designated destinations. Our evaluation procedure combines a walkability assessment methodology with the ELECTRE TRI rating procedure, in order to assist planners and decision makers in designing physical streets to enhance the continuity, safety and quality of pedestrian paths. Improving the walking accessibility in the fringe areas of towns is a way to reduce the physical and perceptual distance which separates these contexts from the rest of the city, thus leading to a progressive integration of urban functions.
Ivan Blecic; Dario Canu; Arnaldo Cecchini; Tanja Congiu; Giovanna Fancello. Walkability and Street Intersections in Rural-Urban Fringes: A Decision Aiding Evaluation Procedure. Sustainability 2017, 9, 883 .
AMA StyleIvan Blecic, Dario Canu, Arnaldo Cecchini, Tanja Congiu, Giovanna Fancello. Walkability and Street Intersections in Rural-Urban Fringes: A Decision Aiding Evaluation Procedure. Sustainability. 2017; 9 (6):883.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIvan Blecic; Dario Canu; Arnaldo Cecchini; Tanja Congiu; Giovanna Fancello. 2017. "Walkability and Street Intersections in Rural-Urban Fringes: A Decision Aiding Evaluation Procedure." Sustainability 9, no. 6: 883.
Ivan Blečić; Arnaldo Cecchini. Erratum to: On the antifragility of cities and of their buildings. City, Territory and Architecture 2017, 4, 3 .
AMA StyleIvan Blečić, Arnaldo Cecchini. Erratum to: On the antifragility of cities and of their buildings. City, Territory and Architecture. 2017; 4 (1):3.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIvan Blečić; Arnaldo Cecchini. 2017. "Erratum to: On the antifragility of cities and of their buildings." City, Territory and Architecture 4, no. 1: 3.
We discuss the relevance of the concept of antifragility, introduced by Nassim Taleb, to the theory and practice of urban planning and design. We further contrast the antifragility of cities with that of their “smartness”, suggesting that the former deserves a greater focus in the planning practice. Finally, we explore the potential antifragility of buildings, arguing it to be an important factor of the antifragility of cities in general. Keywords Antifragile planning Antifragile urbanism Urban design
Ivan Blečić; Arnaldo Cecchini. On the antifragility of cities and of their buildings. City, Territory and Architecture 2017, 4, 537 .
AMA StyleIvan Blečić, Arnaldo Cecchini. On the antifragility of cities and of their buildings. City, Territory and Architecture. 2017; 4 (1):537.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIvan Blečić; Arnaldo Cecchini. 2017. "On the antifragility of cities and of their buildings." City, Territory and Architecture 4, no. 1: 537.
Ivan Blečić; Dario Canu; Arnaldo Cecchini; Tanja Congiu; Giovanna Fancello; Stefania Mauro; Sara Levi Sacerdotti; Giuseppe A. Trunfio. Coupling Surveys with GPS Tracking to Explore Tourists’ Spatio-Temporal Behaviour. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2016, 150 -160.
AMA StyleIvan Blečić, Dario Canu, Arnaldo Cecchini, Tanja Congiu, Giovanna Fancello, Stefania Mauro, Sara Levi Sacerdotti, Giuseppe A. Trunfio. Coupling Surveys with GPS Tracking to Explore Tourists’ Spatio-Temporal Behaviour. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2016; ():150-160.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIvan Blečić; Dario Canu; Arnaldo Cecchini; Tanja Congiu; Giovanna Fancello; Stefania Mauro; Sara Levi Sacerdotti; Giuseppe A. Trunfio. 2016. "Coupling Surveys with GPS Tracking to Explore Tourists’ Spatio-Temporal Behaviour." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 150-160.
Ivan Blečić; Arnaldo Cecchini; Dario Canu; Andrea Cappai; Tanja Congiu; Giovanna Fancello. Evaluating the Effect of Urban Intersections on Walkability. Computer Vision 2016, 138 -149.
AMA StyleIvan Blečić, Arnaldo Cecchini, Dario Canu, Andrea Cappai, Tanja Congiu, Giovanna Fancello. Evaluating the Effect of Urban Intersections on Walkability. Computer Vision. 2016; ():138-149.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIvan Blečić; Arnaldo Cecchini; Dario Canu; Andrea Cappai; Tanja Congiu; Giovanna Fancello. 2016. "Evaluating the Effect of Urban Intersections on Walkability." Computer Vision , no. : 138-149.
Ivan Blečić; Dario Canu; Arnaldo Cecchini; Tanja Congiu; Giovanna Fancello. Factors of Perceived Walkability: A Pilot Empirical Study. Computer Vision 2016, 125 -137.
AMA StyleIvan Blečić, Dario Canu, Arnaldo Cecchini, Tanja Congiu, Giovanna Fancello. Factors of Perceived Walkability: A Pilot Empirical Study. Computer Vision. 2016; ():125-137.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIvan Blečić; Dario Canu; Arnaldo Cecchini; Tanja Congiu; Giovanna Fancello. 2016. "Factors of Perceived Walkability: A Pilot Empirical Study." Computer Vision , no. : 125-137.
E-participation in decision making is gaining ground. An increasing number of administrational structures currently try to foster innovation processes at all levels of government, supported by EU cooperation strategies and funding. The aim of the paper is to test the usefulness and opportunities deriving from a mix of e-participation and “proactive” decision support tools by defining a policymaking process,. The authors present an overview of the work-in-progress of policymaking through a series of methods and tools to encourage participation and identifying consistent and low cost policy choices in PA. We conclude that this bottom-up approach, which is very different from the technology-based smart city paradigm, is extremely useful. It provides institutions with a simple, immediate and free use of a pool of ideas. It also supports administrational structures by organizing a number of basic services in low density rural areas affected by structural limitations in terms of accessibility, loss of population and public services in a better manner and at lower cost.
Arnaldo Cecchini; Alessandro Plaisant. Better Decisions for a Better Quality of Life: the Potential of Rural Districts Supported by e-governance Tools. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2015, 577 -592.
AMA StyleArnaldo Cecchini, Alessandro Plaisant. Better Decisions for a Better Quality of Life: the Potential of Rural Districts Supported by e-governance Tools. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2015; ():577-592.
Chicago/Turabian StyleArnaldo Cecchini; Alessandro Plaisant. 2015. "Better Decisions for a Better Quality of Life: the Potential of Rural Districts Supported by e-governance Tools." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 577-592.
In a few recent papers we presented a methodology and the related planning and design support tool, Walkability Explorer, for the evaluation of walkability of places which are relevant for people’s capabilities. The method is an attempt to move beyond the known approaches to evaluating walkability based on the analysis of proximity to urban places and on macro urban and socioeconomic factors, because it conceptualises walkability as the effective capability to walk offered by the environment thanks to micro-urban characteristics. It evaluates how the urban environment is conducive to walk by combining three elements: the destinations/opportunities reachable by foot, their walking distance and the quality of the path to these destinations. Following this approach, here we present and discuss an example assessment of walkability for the city of Alghero (Italy).
Ivan Blečić; Arnaldo Cecchini; Tanja Congiu; Francesco Fancello; Giovanna Fancello; Giuseppe A. Trunfio. Walkability Explorer: Application to a Case-Study. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2015, 758 -770.
AMA StyleIvan Blečić, Arnaldo Cecchini, Tanja Congiu, Francesco Fancello, Giovanna Fancello, Giuseppe A. Trunfio. Walkability Explorer: Application to a Case-Study. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2015; ():758-770.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIvan Blečić; Arnaldo Cecchini; Tanja Congiu; Francesco Fancello; Giovanna Fancello; Giuseppe A. Trunfio. 2015. "Walkability Explorer: Application to a Case-Study." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 758-770.
We present a methodology and a planning and design support software tool for evaluating walkability and pedestrian accessibility of places which are relevant for people’s capabilities, and thus an important component of quality of life in cities. A multicriteria evaluation model, at the core of the decision support system, is used to assign walkability scores to points in urban space. Walkability scores are obtained through algorithms which process spatial data and run the evaluation model in order to derive potential pedestrian routes along the street network, taking into account the quality of urban space on several attributes relevant for walkability. One of its notable characteristics is a certain reversal of perspective in evaluating walkability: the walkability score of a place does not reflect how that place is per se walkable, but instead how and where to can one walk from there, that is to say, what is the walkability the place is endowed with. This evaluation incorporates three intertwined elements: the number of destinations/opportunities reachable by foot, their walking distances, and the quality of the paths to these destinations. In this article, we furthermore demonstrate possible uses of the support system by reporting and discussing the results of a case-study assessment of a project for the Lisbon’s Segunda Circular (Second Ring Road). The software tool is made freely available for download.
Ivan Blečić; Arnaldo Cecchini; Tanja Congiu; Giovanna Fancello; Giuseppe A. Trunfio. Evaluating walkability: a capability-wise planning and design support system. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 2015, 29, 1350 -1374.
AMA StyleIvan Blečić, Arnaldo Cecchini, Tanja Congiu, Giovanna Fancello, Giuseppe A. Trunfio. Evaluating walkability: a capability-wise planning and design support system. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 2015; 29 (8):1350-1374.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIvan Blečić; Arnaldo Cecchini; Tanja Congiu; Giovanna Fancello; Giuseppe A. Trunfio. 2015. "Evaluating walkability: a capability-wise planning and design support system." International Journal of Geographical Information Science 29, no. 8: 1350-1374.
Ivan Blečić; Arnaldo Cecchini; Giuseppe A. Trunfio. How much past to see the future: a computational study in calibrating urban cellular automata. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 2015, 29, 349 -374.
AMA StyleIvan Blečić, Arnaldo Cecchini, Giuseppe A. Trunfio. How much past to see the future: a computational study in calibrating urban cellular automata. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 2015; 29 (3):349-374.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIvan Blečić; Arnaldo Cecchini; Giuseppe A. Trunfio. 2015. "How much past to see the future: a computational study in calibrating urban cellular automata." International Journal of Geographical Information Science 29, no. 3: 349-374.
In the paper we present an urban design support tool centered on pedestrian accessibility and walkability of places. Differently from standard decision support systems developed for the purpose of evaluating given pre-defined urban projects and designs, we address the inverse problem of having the software system itself generate hypotheses of projects and designs, given some (user-provided) objectives and constraints. Taking as a starting point a model for evaluating walkability, we adapt the NSGA-II multi-objective genetic algorithm to produce the front of non-dominated design alternatives to satisfy certain predefined constraints. By way of example, we briefly present an application of the system to a real urban area
Ivan Blečić; Arnaldo Cecchini; Giuseppe A. Trunfio. Towards a Design Support System for Urban Walkability. Procedia Computer Science 2015, 51, 2157 -2167.
AMA StyleIvan Blečić, Arnaldo Cecchini, Giuseppe A. Trunfio. Towards a Design Support System for Urban Walkability. Procedia Computer Science. 2015; 51 ():2157-2167.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIvan Blečić; Arnaldo Cecchini; Giuseppe A. Trunfio. 2015. "Towards a Design Support System for Urban Walkability." Procedia Computer Science 51, no. : 2157-2167.
We present an agent-based model of a simple endogenous-money economy. The model simulates agents representing individual persons who can work, consume, invent new products and related production technologies, apply for a loan from the bank and start up a business. Through the interaction of persons with the firms, we simulate the production of goods, consumption and labour market. This setting allows us to explore how an endogenous-money economy may build up from scratch, as an emergent property of actions and interactions among heterogeneous agents, once the money is being injected into a non-monetary self-production (or barter) economy. We provide and discuss the results of several computational experiments under three scenarios: (1) with just one firm, (2) with a limited number of firms and abundant workforce, (3) and with unlimited number of firms.
Ivan Blecic; Arnaldo Cecchini; Giuseppe A. Trunfio. Basic Endogenous-Money Economy: An Agent-Based Approach. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2014, 761 -770.
AMA StyleIvan Blecic, Arnaldo Cecchini, Giuseppe A. Trunfio. Basic Endogenous-Money Economy: An Agent-Based Approach. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2014; ():761-770.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIvan Blecic; Arnaldo Cecchini; Giuseppe A. Trunfio. 2014. "Basic Endogenous-Money Economy: An Agent-Based Approach." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 761-770.
Patterns of urban development influence flows of material and energy within urban settlements and exchanges with its surrounding. In recent years the quantitative estimation of the components of the so-called urban metabolism has increasingly attracted the attention of researchers from different fields. To contribute to this effort we developed a modelling framework for estimating the carbon exchanges together with sensible and latent heat fluxes and air temperature in relation to alternative land-use scenarios. The framework bundles three components: (i) a Cellular Automata model for the simulation of the urban land-use dynamics; (ii) a transportation model for estimating the variation of the transportation network load and (iii) the Advanced Canopy-Atmosphere-Soil Algorithm (ACASA) model tightly coupled with the mesoscale weather forecasting model WRF. We present and discuss the results of an example application on the City of Florence
Ivan Blečić; Arnaldo Cecchini; Matthias Falk; Serena Marras; David R. Pyles; Donatella Spano; Giuseppe A. Trunfio. Urban metabolism and climate change: A planning support system. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 2014, 26, 447 -457.
AMA StyleIvan Blečić, Arnaldo Cecchini, Matthias Falk, Serena Marras, David R. Pyles, Donatella Spano, Giuseppe A. Trunfio. Urban metabolism and climate change: A planning support system. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 2014; 26 ():447-457.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIvan Blečić; Arnaldo Cecchini; Matthias Falk; Serena Marras; David R. Pyles; Donatella Spano; Giuseppe A. Trunfio. 2014. "Urban metabolism and climate change: A planning support system." International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 26, no. : 447-457.
There are many ways of imagining the future of the city. We can start with the growth of urbanisation, which envisages that in 2050 more than two-thirds of the world population will live in cities. And from there calculate the increase in the ecological footprint that urban life will determine, the increase in consumption of the land, and the possible rise in inequality and segregation. Or reflect on the new role of the city in globalisation and in the nation-state crisis. Or refer to the new lifestyles or homologation produced by globalisation. Or look at the city from the standpoint of the country, of territory being abandoned, its desertification and the loss of biodiversity. Or try to classify the many types of city and the semi-urban settlements irradiated by the city.
Arnaldo Cecchini. The future of the city from Science to Science Fiction and back (and beyond). City, Territory and Architecture 2014, 1, 5 .
AMA StyleArnaldo Cecchini. The future of the city from Science to Science Fiction and back (and beyond). City, Territory and Architecture. 2014; 1 (1):5.
Chicago/Turabian StyleArnaldo Cecchini. 2014. "The future of the city from Science to Science Fiction and back (and beyond)." City, Territory and Architecture 1, no. 1: 5.