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Environmental Regeneration Integrating Soft Mobility and Green Street Networks: A Case Study in the Metropolitan Periphery of Naples

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  • Renata Valente

    (Department of Engineering, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, 81031 Aversa, Italy)

  • Louise Mozingo

    (Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA)

  • Roberto Bosco

    (Department of Engineering, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, 81031 Aversa, Italy
    Collaborators.)

  • Eduardo Cappelli

    (Department of Engineering, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, 81031 Aversa, Italy
    Collaborators.)

  • Carlo Donadio

    (Department of Earth Sciences, Environment and Resources, Università di Napoli Federico II, 80125 Naples, Italy)

Abstract

Public space and street networks form a significant and central determinant of urban quality. The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic has focused their crucial importance in the reorganisation of places that are “safe” because they allow movement through cities with minimal risk of contagion. While addressing the need for social distancing, open air exercise, and mobility without use of public transport, these measures resulted in other environmental and social benefits. Living with the coronavirus pandemic has produced a series of adaptative actions, such as barring or limiting automobile traffic, thereby expanding street space for pedestrians and bicyclists, whose impact is, as yet, difficult to fathom because of their contingent, temporary nature. In this context, this case study proposes a sustainable bicycle network to inform the future, permanent street redesign. Based on topographic, morphologic, and climatic data, it evaluates a series of contiguous road sections, defining redesign capacities and critical conditions to implement sustainable interventions to manage urban runoff, mitigate of extreme heat events, expand pedestrian paths and provide a bicycle network. This holistic approach to sustainable urban design evaluation, supported by reproducible data and parameters, serves as a replicable model for the sustainable redesign of roads in other urban settings. The extent, integration, and complexity of the study engaged an interdisciplinary framework, facilitating detailed planning and design and quantified assessments of environmental outcomes.

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  • Renata Valente & Louise Mozingo & Roberto Bosco & Eduardo Cappelli & Carlo Donadio, 2021. "Environmental Regeneration Integrating Soft Mobility and Green Street Networks: A Case Study in the Metropolitan Periphery of Naples," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(15), pages 1-22, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:13:y:2021:i:15:p:8195-:d:599142
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    1. R. Cristo & A. Mazzarella & R. Viola, 2007. "An analysis of heat index over Naples (Southern Italy) in the context of European heat wave of 2003," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 40(2), pages 373-379, February.
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    1. Rachele Corticelli & Margherita Pazzini & Cecilia Mazzoli & Claudio Lantieri & Annarita Ferrante & Valeria Vignali, 2022. "Urban Regeneration and Soft Mobility: The Case Study of the Rimini Canal Port in Italy," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(21), pages 1-27, November.

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