Browsing by Author "Pucci, Paola"

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    Big data and policy making: between real time management and the experimental dimension of policies
    (2019) Concilio, Grazia; Pucci, Paola; Vecchio, Giovanni; Lanza, Giovanni; Misra, Sanjay; Gervasi, Osvaldo; Murgante, Beniamino; Stankova, Elena; Korkhov, Vladimir; Torre, Carmelo; Rocha, Ana Maria A.C.; Taniar, David; Apduhan, Bernady O.; Tarantino, Eufemia
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    Enabling Mobilities Planning Tools for People and Their Mobilities Preface
    (Springer, 2019) Pucci, Paola; Vecchio, Giovanni
    This book investigates how established transport planning tools can evolve to understand and plan for the ever-changing contemporary mobilities that influence the opportunities available to individuals. It discusses existing techniques, revised in the light of the growing interest in the social implications of transport planning decisions: these include analytical tools to interpret consolidated and emerging phenomena, as well as operational tools to tackle new and existing mobility demands and needs. The book then addresses the implications of everyday mobility for individuals and communities. The result of a continuous exchange between the two authors, it brings together the results of their various research projects. Despite referring to different objects and settings, the work presented is connected by an underlying interest in the impact that mobility has on people in an increasingly mobile world, and the need to include such concerns into mobility planning and policy.
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    Inequalities in job-related accessibility: Testing an evaluative approach and its policy relevance in Buenos Aires
    (2019) Vecchio, Giovanni; Lanza, Giovanni; Bocchimuzzi, Lucia; Pucci, Paola; CEDEUS (Chile)
    Accessibility, as a requisite to guarantee the individual ability to participate in valued activities, has been receiving increasing yet scattered attention from diverse theoretical and operational approaches. These approaches focus on how individuals are able to engage in out-of-home activities, participate in social life as well as on their involvement in other activities that contribute to their overall well-being. The paper aims at further investigating such approaches, analysing forms of inequality in job-related mobilities while assuming that a person's accessibility depends on both contextual and individual factors. Taking the Buenos Aires metropolitan area as a suitable testbed, the paper offers an approach to identify the inequalities in job-related accessibility at the neighbourhood scale. The approach considers the relationship between the quality and supply of public transport, level of social exclusion and reachable employment opportunities. The research proposes a synthetic index of inequalities in access to job opportunities (IAO) to identify disadvantaged urban areas characterized by a confluence of problems related to socio-economic deprivations, low accessibility to employment as well as a low mobility and poor quality of transport supply. The approach has an explicit operational dimension and intends to contribute to outlining tailored measures to guarantee better job opportunities, as in the case of people living in areas experiencing sub-standard levels of accessibility to workplaces.
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    Planning for Proximity: Who, What, Where, When, Why (and How)
    (Springer, 2024) Pucci, Paola; Vecchio, Giovanni; Pucci, Paola; Vecchio, Giovanni; Politecnico Di Milano; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
    Proximity is a recurring concept in urban planning. Neighbourhood units (as defined by Clarence Perry), pedestrian pockets (proposed by Peter Calthorpe) and 15-minute cities (coined by Carlos Moreno) are just some of the definitions under which the idea of promoting places and lifestyles based on proximity emerges now and then in the academic, professional and public debate. Nonetheless, to implement such an urban model through urban plans and policies, it is necessary to address several dimensions, deal with potentially tricky definitions and recognize the range of action of proximity. We intend to introduce them briefly, discussing the who, what, where, when (and how) of strategies intended to promote sustainable neighbourhoods, cities and regions through proximity. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.
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    Proximity for Whom? Accessibility in an Unequal, Ageing City
    (Springer, 2024) Vecchio, Giovanni; Pucci, Paola; Vecchio, Giovanni
    Proximity is a central concept in the contemporary urban planning debate on making cities more sustainable, but it often overlooks the diversity of the cities and their inhabitants. In different urban settings, the meaning of proximity and the possibility of implementing it may widely change. Moreover, different individuals have different accessibility needs and possibilities depending on manifold demographic, socio-economic and health features. The chapter discusses the multiple meanings and dimensions associated with the proximity concept by examining accessibility-by-proximity and demographic ageing in Santiago de Chile, an unequal Latin American metropolis. The chapter examines the potential that Santiago's ageing neighbourhoods have for promoting proximity locally, also considering the quality of the public space through which urban inhabitants move to access close opportunities. While the concept of proximity can reorient urban and transport planning towards more environmentally sustainable outcomes, the elements discussed in the chapter highlight the social justice issues that may limit the positive impact of proximity for different population groups.
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    Questioning Proximity - Opportunities and Challenges for Urban Planning and Mobility Policies
    (Springer, 2024) Pucci, Paola; Vecchio, Giovanni
    The book discusses some of the issues related to proximity, challenges an acritical use of the concept and highlights several dimensions that may better frame the actual contribution of proximity to urban and mobility planning in different places. The contributions address the conditions required for ensuring accessibility by proximity and the different planning dimensions that can support its promotion, addressing issues related to the inclusiveness of this model, as well as the scalability and metrics of proximity we need to deal with in several different contexts. The first part of the book introduces some experimental approaches aimed at operationalising accessibility by proximity, while the second part discusses several planning issues related to the implementation of proximity at different scales.
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    Recovering existing mobility assets in San José (Costa Rica)
    (2020) Pucci, Paola; Barboza, Gloriana; Vecchio, Giovanni
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    Women’s mobilities and perceived safety: urban form matters. Evidence from three peripheral districts in the city of Bogotá
    (Routledge, 2023) Pucci, Paola; Vecchio, Giovanni; Gallego Vega, Erika Andrea; CEDEUS (Chile)
    The paper aims at investigating the interplay of urban form and women’s mobilities in three peripheral districts in the city of Bogotá. Integrating a morpho-functional analysis of the built environment with an ethnographic analysis focused on the walking practices of a sample of women, the paper highlights the main gendered spatial experiences and how the perceived safety acts as a mediator between built environment attributes and walking behaviours. The conclusion introduces two challenges: first, the need for new interpretative lenses, different from those of a man-centred perspective and able to interpret the women’s territoriality–considered as the spaces produced through their mobility practices; second, the possibility to use women’s mobilities experiences and their tactics of adaptation as a tool for more effective urban and mobility policies.