Why Italy first? Health, geographical and planning aspects of the COVID-19 outbreak

B Murgante, G Borruso, G Balletto, P Castiglia… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
COVID-19 hit Italy in February 2020 after its outbreak in China at the beginning of January.
Why was Italy first among the Western countries? What are the conditions that made Italy …

Cyclable cities: building feasible scenario through urban space morphology assessment

F Scorza, G Fortunato - Journal of urban planning and development, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
Cycling is a climate-friendly, cost-effective, and greenhouse gas-efficient transport mode that
produces relevant positive aspects to: urban innovation (new technology and services, that …

A systemic perspective for the Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan (SECAP)

F Scorza, L Santopietro - European Planning Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The voluntary-based initiative Covenant of Mayors (CoM) focused on the active role of local
authorities and increased its targets by 2016, through the Sustainable Energy and Climate …

Ecosystem services multifunctionality: An analytical framework to support sustainable spatial planning in Italy

A Pilogallo, F Scorza - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
A growing demand at several levels of territorial government concerns the need for tools to
support policy-making oriented towards sustainable planning. That of Ecosystem Services …

The Italian experience of the covenant of mayors: a territorial evaluation

L Santopietro, F Scorza - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
European climate policy, since the 1990s, has developed incrementally and supported
programs, plans and actions for sustainable, clean and secure energy. Additionally, climate …

Active mobility-oriented urban development: a morpho-syntactic scenario for a mid-sized town

F Scorza, G Fortunato - European Planning Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This work is based on the analysis and the assessment of morphological and syntactic
characteristics of the street network of a mid-sized city: Potenza (County Seat of Basilicata …

Modeling urban sprinkling with cellular automata

L Saganeiti, A Mustafa, J Teller, B Murgante - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents a spatiotemporal analysis to simulate and project urban sprinkling with
coupled cellular automata (CA) and multinomial logistic regression (MLR) model. Our case …

Downscaling NUA: Matera new urban structure

D Lagonigro, V Cazzati, N Viggiano, G Andrulli… - … Science and Its …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Downscale implementation of National Urban Environmental Technician (NUA)
principles is an emerging topic in sustainable territorial development. The approach has …

“University Equity”: Students' Facilities in Major Tourism Destination Towns

M Capodiferro, D Colonna, M Marvulli… - … Science and Its …, 2023 - Springer
The paper discusses an experimental approach oriented to define urban regeneration
strategies for the city of Matera (Basilicata, Italy) to address the strategic issues of the …

SuperABLE: Matera accessible for all

E Florio, SR Marcosano, R Parrulli, G Andrulli… - … Science and Its …, 2023 - Springer
The article describes an experimental approach focused on developing urban regeneration
strategies for Matera, Italy, with a particular emphasis on addressing the needs of all …