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Research paper thumbnail of Small green areas for energy saving: effects on different urban settlements

ACE: Architecture, City and Environment, 2016

Los aspectos de la sostenibilidad, hasta hoy, emergen como un tema central dentro de la gran cant... more Los aspectos de la sostenibilidad, hasta hoy, emergen como un tema central dentro de la gran cantidad de definiciones existentes de Smart City. En el debate actual, la conciencia de que las TIC es sólo una de las herramientas, pero no la clave para el nuevo diseño del sistema urbano, especialmente de acuerdo con las nuevas exigencias para satisfacer las necesidades del presente sin comprometer la capacidad de las generaciones futuras para satisfacer sus propias necesidades, colocadas en la parte superior de los desafíos globales cada vez más apremiantes (cambio climático, energía, uso del suelo, etc.). Uno de los objetivos de la sostenibilidad urbana parece estar en contradicción con uno de los puntos principales del modelo de Smart City: la necesidad de densificar la ciudad, a causa del rápido crecimiento de la población. Si las ciudades están diseñadas para ser más compactas, para optimizar el uso del suelo, ¿cómo podemos evitar el riesgo de abarrotar la ciudad? Una posible respue...

Research paper thumbnail of A GIS-based tool for planning resilient climate cities

Research paper thumbnail of Mobility and Noise Pollution. Noise-reduction Traditional Strategies and Green Mobility Ones Mobilità ed inquinamento acustico: strategie di riduzione tradizionali e di green mobility

Tema. Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, Jul 1, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of Active mobility in historical centres: towards an accessible and competitive city

Transportation Research Procedia, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of City networks, mobility and environment: the Preliminary of the Avellino PTCP

L’articolo propone la lettura dei contenuti del Preliminare del PTCP di Avellino, un piano per mo... more L’articolo propone la lettura dei contenuti del Preliminare del PTCP di Avellino, un piano per molti aspetti innovativo, soprattutto per aver coniugato pianificazione di area vasta di tipo tradizionale e logica “strategica”. In particolare, l’articolo descrive idee guida, contenuti e strategie del piano orientate, prevalentemente, a stimolare lo sviluppo sostenibile di un’area in ritardo di sviluppo come la provincia irpina, attraverso la salvaguardia e valorizzazione delle risorse naturali e storico-culturali, la costruzione di reti di medie e piccole citta e reti di mobilita alle diverse scale, da quella urbana a quella internazionale, e interventi sul sistema della mobilita. Nel 2004, ormai piu di cinque anni fa, e stato adottato, a maggioranza assoluta (solo due gli astenuti), il Preliminare di Piano Territoriale di Coordinamento della Provincia di Avellino, dopo un lavoro di oltre due anni che ha visto impegnati gli uffici provinciali con due dipartimenti universitari. Il lavor...

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial Preface: Elderly Mobility

Tema. Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2018

This Special Issue of TeMA Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment collects the research wo... more This Special Issue of TeMA Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment collects the research works of one of the sessions organised in the framework of the XX Scientific Meeting of the Societa Italiana degli Economisti dei Trasporti e della Logistica (SIET), focused on the MOBILAGE (Mobility and aging: daily life and welfare supportive networks at the neighbourhood level) research project financed by Fondazione Cariplo within the “Aging and social research: people, places and relations” 2017 Call for scientific research. The session was addressed to investigate elderly (people aged 65+) mobility, by exploring the supply and demand of Local Public Transport (LPT) in urban areas.

Research paper thumbnail of COVID-19 vs CITY-20 SCENARIOS, INSIGHTS, REASONING AND RESEARCH PREFACE

Tema. Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial Preface: Covid-19 vs City-20

Tema. Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2020

Given the short time to produce the volume, the Editorial Board of TeMA Journal carried out the s... more Given the short time to produce the volume, the Editorial Board of TeMA Journal carried out the scientific quality audit of the contributions published in this Special Issue. The cover image is a photo collage of some cities during the Covid-19 pandemic quarantine (March 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Future Possibility of Smart and Sustainable Cities in the Mediterranean Basin

Journal of Urban Planning and Development, 2020

Mass media cannot cure virus but can cure its spread. Framing of news stories in the Nigerian med... more Mass media cannot cure virus but can cure its spread. Framing of news stories in the Nigerian media (newspapers) is much more influenced by the economic motive of the journalists; picking news angle that arouses readers' interests in order to sell more copies in the keen competitive media market. The 2014 Ebola outbreak is a litmus test of how Nigerian media framed health issues, which depict the news perspective most interest to them. Through content analysis of two daily newspapers reports of Ebola during the outbreak in Nigeria, this study established the framing patterns employed while reporting as well as the preponderant frames used. The outcome is used to justify the priority upheld between the competing newspapers interests to sell and the media social responsibility towards containing the outbreak. The much capitalisation on treatment/containment frame portrayed the newspapers purposive interest to free the society of the outbreak, a reflection of its social responsibility role. The priority, which pose no threat on the professionalism of journalism was not only much appraised but also recommended for all media involvement in crisis reports.

Research paper thumbnail of Innovations technologiques et transformations territoriales. L'expérimentation sur l'Aire Métropolitaine de Naples

Netcom, 1989

La télématique, l'informatique, et plus en général l'innovation technologique dans le dom... more La télématique, l'informatique, et plus en général l'innovation technologique dans le domaine des communications peuvent fournir les opportunités et les instruments pour définir de nouvelles façons d’approche et de solution à la dégradation des villes. L'objectif principal de cette recherche est la formulation d’une proposition de projet pour l’aire métropolitaine de Naples dans laquelle on envisage un nouveau modèle d’aménagement et de gestion du système d’implantation métropolitaine. Le travail, dont le contenu est expressément d’action-projet, vise à analyser les fonctions urbaines les plus significatives dans le but de rationaliser et de contrôler la “demande urbaine’’ , toujours croissante, de mobilité, de fonctions et d’espace.

Research paper thumbnail of Technological networks and regional competiveneness : reading elements and assessment criteria

Netcom, 1996

Gargiulo Carmela, La Rocca Rosa Anna, Stanganelli Marialuce. Technological networks and regional ... more Gargiulo Carmela, La Rocca Rosa Anna, Stanganelli Marialuce. Technological networks and regional competiveneness : reading elements and assessment criteria. In: NETCOM : Réseaux, communication et territoires / Networks and Communication Studies, vol. 10 n°2, août 1996. pp. 539-571

Research paper thumbnail of Percorsi pedonali e riqualificazione urbana: l’area di Montesanto a Napoli

DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Dec 2, 2008

Trimestrale del Laboratorio Territorio Mobilità e Ambiente-TeMALab http://www.tema.unina.it

Research paper thumbnail of Pedonalità e riqualificazione urbana

tema.unina.it

Laboratorio Territorio Mobilità e Ambiente - TeMALab Dipartimento di Pianificazione e Scienza del... more Laboratorio Territorio Mobilità e Ambiente - TeMALab Dipartimento di Pianificazione e Scienza del Territorio Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II e-mail: gargiulo@unina.it;galderis@unina .it;ceudech@unina.it;web:www.dipist.unina.it ... Trimestrale del Laboratorio Territorio ...

Research paper thumbnail of Trasformazioni urbane e variazione dei valori immobiliari.Il ruolo delle stazioni Alta Velocità

Trimestrale del Laboratorio Territorio Mobilità e Ambiente-TeMALab http://www.tema.unina.it

Research paper thumbnail of New scenarios for safe mobility in urban areas

TeMA. Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment offers researches, applications and contribut... more TeMA. Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment offers researches, applications and contributions with a unified approach to planning and mobility and publishes original inter-disciplinary papers on the interaction of transport, land use and environment. Domains include: engineering, planning, modeling, behavior, economics, geography, regional science, sociology, architecture and design, network science and complex systems. With ANVUR resolution of April 2020, TeMA Journal and the articles published from 2016 are included in A category of scientific journals. From 2015, the articles published on TeMA are included in the Core Collection of Web of Science. TeMA Journal has also received the Sparc Europe Seal for Open Access Journals released by Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC Europe) and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). TeMA is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License and is blind peer reviewed at least by two referees selected among high-profile scientists. TeMA has been published since 2007 and is indexed in the main bibliographical databases and it is present in the catalogues of hundreds of academic and research libraries worldwide.

Research paper thumbnail of Pedestrian routes and accessibility to urban services: an urban rhythmic analysis on people's behaviour before and during the COVID-19

Tema. Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2020

The emergency of COVID-19 changed the face of our cities, preventing most of the urban activities... more The emergency of COVID-19 changed the face of our cities, preventing most of the urban activities, limiting travels on large, medium and short distances and drastically reducing the number and the intensity of social relationships. The restrictive measures, imposed to the entire population, sensibly affected the experience of our built environment as well as the assets of pedestrian and cycling network that lead to the achievement of essential urban services. On one hand these limitations drastically imposed a change in the people's habits who spend now more time walking and cycling in absence of any other entertainments; on the other, they have revealed the need of a reorganisation of pedestrians and cycling paths as well as of open spaces. The morphology of these urban spaces are unable to cope with the current social-distancing situation and to adapt to a “new different routine”. Local decision makers face with a new demand of urban space for pedestrian and cycling accessibil...

Research paper thumbnail of Principal component analysis and cluster analysis for the assessment of urban mobility in Italy

Town and Infrastructure Planning for Safety and Urban Quality, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Urban Accessibility to Healthcare Facilities for the Elderly: Evolution of the Time-Based 2SFCA Methodology for the Nice Case Study (France)

Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2021, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Urban services, pedestrian networks and behaviors to measure elderly accessibility

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 2021

Relationships between the organisation of the pedestrian network and the location and distributio... more Relationships between the organisation of the pedestrian network and the location and distribution of activities represent an important element in improving accessibility to urban services of interest to the elderly. This paper proposes a methodology aimed at defining a new measure of pedestrian accessibility for elderly. We first identify characteristics of the pedestrian network and built environment that may impact upon accessibility to elderly, and weight each feature using an AHP analysis. Walking behaviours are considered in terms of walking speed and travel times for elderly. Accessibility levels are derived referring to the system defined by the relationship between the characteristics of the pedestrian network, the offer of urban services and behaviours of elderly. This methodology has been tested in the urban contexts of Naples and Aberdeen. The results provide useful suggestions to decision makers in prioritising interventions to be implemented at the neighbourhood scale to improve the accessibility to urban services.

Research paper thumbnail of Smart community for the smart governance of the urban environment

2015 IEEE First International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), 2015

In the framework of the Smart Energy Master (SEM) project, carried out by the Department of Civil... more In the framework of the Smart Energy Master (SEM) project, carried out by the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering (DICEA) in collaboration with four partners from industry, guidelines were drawn up "to promote behaviour and lifestyles aiming to reduce energy consumption in the urban environment". Such guidelines provide general orientation for improving energy efficiency and reducing resource consumption in urban contexts. The study, carried out in a context of networking and sharing research processes, specifically aims to give useful indications for a psycho-social change in local communities with the ultimate objective of the system's environmental health. The purpose is to offer a theoretical and methodological frame of reference to promote ecologically sustainable behaviour and lifestyles of citizens in Europe's smart cities of the future.

Research paper thumbnail of Small green areas for energy saving: effects on different urban settlements

ACE: Architecture, City and Environment, 2016

Los aspectos de la sostenibilidad, hasta hoy, emergen como un tema central dentro de la gran cant... more Los aspectos de la sostenibilidad, hasta hoy, emergen como un tema central dentro de la gran cantidad de definiciones existentes de Smart City. En el debate actual, la conciencia de que las TIC es sólo una de las herramientas, pero no la clave para el nuevo diseño del sistema urbano, especialmente de acuerdo con las nuevas exigencias para satisfacer las necesidades del presente sin comprometer la capacidad de las generaciones futuras para satisfacer sus propias necesidades, colocadas en la parte superior de los desafíos globales cada vez más apremiantes (cambio climático, energía, uso del suelo, etc.). Uno de los objetivos de la sostenibilidad urbana parece estar en contradicción con uno de los puntos principales del modelo de Smart City: la necesidad de densificar la ciudad, a causa del rápido crecimiento de la población. Si las ciudades están diseñadas para ser más compactas, para optimizar el uso del suelo, ¿cómo podemos evitar el riesgo de abarrotar la ciudad? Una posible respue...

Research paper thumbnail of A GIS-based tool for planning resilient climate cities

Research paper thumbnail of Mobility and Noise Pollution. Noise-reduction Traditional Strategies and Green Mobility Ones Mobilità ed inquinamento acustico: strategie di riduzione tradizionali e di green mobility

Tema. Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, Jul 1, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of Active mobility in historical centres: towards an accessible and competitive city

Transportation Research Procedia, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of City networks, mobility and environment: the Preliminary of the Avellino PTCP

L’articolo propone la lettura dei contenuti del Preliminare del PTCP di Avellino, un piano per mo... more L’articolo propone la lettura dei contenuti del Preliminare del PTCP di Avellino, un piano per molti aspetti innovativo, soprattutto per aver coniugato pianificazione di area vasta di tipo tradizionale e logica “strategica”. In particolare, l’articolo descrive idee guida, contenuti e strategie del piano orientate, prevalentemente, a stimolare lo sviluppo sostenibile di un’area in ritardo di sviluppo come la provincia irpina, attraverso la salvaguardia e valorizzazione delle risorse naturali e storico-culturali, la costruzione di reti di medie e piccole citta e reti di mobilita alle diverse scale, da quella urbana a quella internazionale, e interventi sul sistema della mobilita. Nel 2004, ormai piu di cinque anni fa, e stato adottato, a maggioranza assoluta (solo due gli astenuti), il Preliminare di Piano Territoriale di Coordinamento della Provincia di Avellino, dopo un lavoro di oltre due anni che ha visto impegnati gli uffici provinciali con due dipartimenti universitari. Il lavor...

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial Preface: Elderly Mobility

Tema. Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2018

This Special Issue of TeMA Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment collects the research wo... more This Special Issue of TeMA Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment collects the research works of one of the sessions organised in the framework of the XX Scientific Meeting of the Societa Italiana degli Economisti dei Trasporti e della Logistica (SIET), focused on the MOBILAGE (Mobility and aging: daily life and welfare supportive networks at the neighbourhood level) research project financed by Fondazione Cariplo within the “Aging and social research: people, places and relations” 2017 Call for scientific research. The session was addressed to investigate elderly (people aged 65+) mobility, by exploring the supply and demand of Local Public Transport (LPT) in urban areas.

Research paper thumbnail of COVID-19 vs CITY-20 SCENARIOS, INSIGHTS, REASONING AND RESEARCH PREFACE

Tema. Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial Preface: Covid-19 vs City-20

Tema. Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2020

Given the short time to produce the volume, the Editorial Board of TeMA Journal carried out the s... more Given the short time to produce the volume, the Editorial Board of TeMA Journal carried out the scientific quality audit of the contributions published in this Special Issue. The cover image is a photo collage of some cities during the Covid-19 pandemic quarantine (March 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Future Possibility of Smart and Sustainable Cities in the Mediterranean Basin

Journal of Urban Planning and Development, 2020

Mass media cannot cure virus but can cure its spread. Framing of news stories in the Nigerian med... more Mass media cannot cure virus but can cure its spread. Framing of news stories in the Nigerian media (newspapers) is much more influenced by the economic motive of the journalists; picking news angle that arouses readers' interests in order to sell more copies in the keen competitive media market. The 2014 Ebola outbreak is a litmus test of how Nigerian media framed health issues, which depict the news perspective most interest to them. Through content analysis of two daily newspapers reports of Ebola during the outbreak in Nigeria, this study established the framing patterns employed while reporting as well as the preponderant frames used. The outcome is used to justify the priority upheld between the competing newspapers interests to sell and the media social responsibility towards containing the outbreak. The much capitalisation on treatment/containment frame portrayed the newspapers purposive interest to free the society of the outbreak, a reflection of its social responsibility role. The priority, which pose no threat on the professionalism of journalism was not only much appraised but also recommended for all media involvement in crisis reports.

Research paper thumbnail of Innovations technologiques et transformations territoriales. L'expérimentation sur l'Aire Métropolitaine de Naples

Netcom, 1989

La télématique, l'informatique, et plus en général l'innovation technologique dans le dom... more La télématique, l'informatique, et plus en général l'innovation technologique dans le domaine des communications peuvent fournir les opportunités et les instruments pour définir de nouvelles façons d’approche et de solution à la dégradation des villes. L'objectif principal de cette recherche est la formulation d’une proposition de projet pour l’aire métropolitaine de Naples dans laquelle on envisage un nouveau modèle d’aménagement et de gestion du système d’implantation métropolitaine. Le travail, dont le contenu est expressément d’action-projet, vise à analyser les fonctions urbaines les plus significatives dans le but de rationaliser et de contrôler la “demande urbaine’’ , toujours croissante, de mobilité, de fonctions et d’espace.

Research paper thumbnail of Technological networks and regional competiveneness : reading elements and assessment criteria

Netcom, 1996

Gargiulo Carmela, La Rocca Rosa Anna, Stanganelli Marialuce. Technological networks and regional ... more Gargiulo Carmela, La Rocca Rosa Anna, Stanganelli Marialuce. Technological networks and regional competiveneness : reading elements and assessment criteria. In: NETCOM : Réseaux, communication et territoires / Networks and Communication Studies, vol. 10 n°2, août 1996. pp. 539-571

Research paper thumbnail of Percorsi pedonali e riqualificazione urbana: l’area di Montesanto a Napoli

DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Dec 2, 2008

Trimestrale del Laboratorio Territorio Mobilità e Ambiente-TeMALab http://www.tema.unina.it

Research paper thumbnail of Pedonalità e riqualificazione urbana

tema.unina.it

Laboratorio Territorio Mobilità e Ambiente - TeMALab Dipartimento di Pianificazione e Scienza del... more Laboratorio Territorio Mobilità e Ambiente - TeMALab Dipartimento di Pianificazione e Scienza del Territorio Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II e-mail: gargiulo@unina.it;galderis@unina .it;ceudech@unina.it;web:www.dipist.unina.it ... Trimestrale del Laboratorio Territorio ...

Research paper thumbnail of Trasformazioni urbane e variazione dei valori immobiliari.Il ruolo delle stazioni Alta Velocità

Trimestrale del Laboratorio Territorio Mobilità e Ambiente-TeMALab http://www.tema.unina.it

Research paper thumbnail of New scenarios for safe mobility in urban areas

TeMA. Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment offers researches, applications and contribut... more TeMA. Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment offers researches, applications and contributions with a unified approach to planning and mobility and publishes original inter-disciplinary papers on the interaction of transport, land use and environment. Domains include: engineering, planning, modeling, behavior, economics, geography, regional science, sociology, architecture and design, network science and complex systems. With ANVUR resolution of April 2020, TeMA Journal and the articles published from 2016 are included in A category of scientific journals. From 2015, the articles published on TeMA are included in the Core Collection of Web of Science. TeMA Journal has also received the Sparc Europe Seal for Open Access Journals released by Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC Europe) and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). TeMA is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License and is blind peer reviewed at least by two referees selected among high-profile scientists. TeMA has been published since 2007 and is indexed in the main bibliographical databases and it is present in the catalogues of hundreds of academic and research libraries worldwide.

Research paper thumbnail of Pedestrian routes and accessibility to urban services: an urban rhythmic analysis on people's behaviour before and during the COVID-19

Tema. Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2020

The emergency of COVID-19 changed the face of our cities, preventing most of the urban activities... more The emergency of COVID-19 changed the face of our cities, preventing most of the urban activities, limiting travels on large, medium and short distances and drastically reducing the number and the intensity of social relationships. The restrictive measures, imposed to the entire population, sensibly affected the experience of our built environment as well as the assets of pedestrian and cycling network that lead to the achievement of essential urban services. On one hand these limitations drastically imposed a change in the people's habits who spend now more time walking and cycling in absence of any other entertainments; on the other, they have revealed the need of a reorganisation of pedestrians and cycling paths as well as of open spaces. The morphology of these urban spaces are unable to cope with the current social-distancing situation and to adapt to a “new different routine”. Local decision makers face with a new demand of urban space for pedestrian and cycling accessibil...

Research paper thumbnail of Principal component analysis and cluster analysis for the assessment of urban mobility in Italy

Town and Infrastructure Planning for Safety and Urban Quality, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Urban Accessibility to Healthcare Facilities for the Elderly: Evolution of the Time-Based 2SFCA Methodology for the Nice Case Study (France)

Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2021, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Urban services, pedestrian networks and behaviors to measure elderly accessibility

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 2021

Relationships between the organisation of the pedestrian network and the location and distributio... more Relationships between the organisation of the pedestrian network and the location and distribution of activities represent an important element in improving accessibility to urban services of interest to the elderly. This paper proposes a methodology aimed at defining a new measure of pedestrian accessibility for elderly. We first identify characteristics of the pedestrian network and built environment that may impact upon accessibility to elderly, and weight each feature using an AHP analysis. Walking behaviours are considered in terms of walking speed and travel times for elderly. Accessibility levels are derived referring to the system defined by the relationship between the characteristics of the pedestrian network, the offer of urban services and behaviours of elderly. This methodology has been tested in the urban contexts of Naples and Aberdeen. The results provide useful suggestions to decision makers in prioritising interventions to be implemented at the neighbourhood scale to improve the accessibility to urban services.

Research paper thumbnail of Smart community for the smart governance of the urban environment

2015 IEEE First International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), 2015

In the framework of the Smart Energy Master (SEM) project, carried out by the Department of Civil... more In the framework of the Smart Energy Master (SEM) project, carried out by the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering (DICEA) in collaboration with four partners from industry, guidelines were drawn up "to promote behaviour and lifestyles aiming to reduce energy consumption in the urban environment". Such guidelines provide general orientation for improving energy efficiency and reducing resource consumption in urban contexts. The study, carried out in a context of networking and sharing research processes, specifically aims to give useful indications for a psycho-social change in local communities with the ultimate objective of the system's environmental health. The purpose is to offer a theoretical and methodological frame of reference to promote ecologically sustainable behaviour and lifestyles of citizens in Europe's smart cities of the future.

Research paper thumbnail of The building aspect ratio for an energy efficient green network design

The new paradigm of smart city includes the topics of land consumption and climate change adaptat... more The new paradigm of smart city includes the
topics of land consumption and climate
change adaptation thus bringing to the fore
the role of open spaces system in the
strategic development of urban areas (Gill et
al., 2007; Gargiulo & Zucaro, 2015). In this
context, the study of different
characteristics of urban settlements and the
focus on the relationship between full and
empty urban spaces, could provide an
important set of information for an energy
saving based design of open spaces (Jones et
al., 2001; Papa et al., 2014). In particular,
within the relations between the elements
composing the urban physical space, green
spaces play a major role thanks to the many
positive effects they produce on the urban
environment. Vegetation, in fact, in addition
to being a key component of quality of life,
has an important role to make cities more
sustainable and resilient, through the socalled
"oasis effect", significant for reducing
the energy consumption due to the use of
air conditioning in summer (Coronel &
Alvarez, 2001; Zhang et al., 2014). This
paper intends to propose a methodology for
measuring the impact of the green areas in
different types of urban fabric, in terms of
temperature mitigation and energy
consumption reduction in order to
contribute to the scientific debate on the
definition of new instruments able to
integrate climate and energy aspects in the
design of green space networks.
This work, in particular, represents a
development of a previous research aimed
at effectively localizing, dimensioning and
distributing green spaces, starting from data
related to a heterogeneous urban pattern
for density and presence of green in the
municipality of Naples.
The variable of building aspect ratio, related
to the geometry of the road network, was
inserted in the calculation parameters, thus
achieving, through the use of a thermal
simulation software, the incidence of solar
radiation on the main facades of the
buildings and its rated thermal input for air
conditioning of indoor environment. The
obtained data were integrated, through the
GIS system, with the results of the previous
study creating a useful decision support tool
to test the effectiveness of the green
network system in the analyzed urban
context, and to strategically define the areas
to place new vegetation elements, both
punctual (green spaces) and linear (tree
rows).