Editorial Preface: Methods, Tools and Best Practices to Increase the Capacity of Urban Systems to Adapt to Natural and Man-made Changes

The 10th volume of TeMA Journal, given the relevance of the topics, dedicates the three issues of 2017 to promotes the scientific debate on the definition and the implementation of methods, tools and best practices aimed at improving, in the forthcoming decades, the capacity of the urban areas to cope a range of climate, technological and socio-economic challenges that will require the development of integrated and adaptive strategies. The articles published in this first issue address some themes, such as the resilience capacity of urban system, the smart cities, the urban transportation planning, the urban water infrastructure, the sociocultural facilities, the urban green spaces and the governance of metropolitan areas

Urban Planning for Transit-Oriented Development: An application in the Naples metropolitan area.

Transit-oriented development (TOD) is a planning strategy that aims to concentrate jobs, housing, and services around mass transit stations to make cities more sustainable, productive, and liveable. There is no one-size-fits-all strategy, and TOD principles cannot be uniformly applied across an entire city or transit network. This paper provides an innovative methodology to assess areas around transit nodes and supports decision-makers in identifying critical assets for investment. The developed methodology utilises Bertolini’s node-place model (1996), classifying station nodes according to their transit characteristics (transit features) and the quality of the spaces (open areas) and the built environment (built development). The proposed methodology is applied to the Naples metropolitan area (Italy), which includes 92 municipalities and over 3 million inhabitants. The study identified significant transit corridors and urban hotspots within the study area, where integrated transport and urban strategies would effectively promote more sustainable development

Metropolitain Fluxes

L'articolo propone un approfondimento sul tema della mobilità alla scala sovra-comunale ed in particolare sul sistema di relazioni esistenti tra i processi di espansione metropolitana e il ruolo della rete e dei sistemi di mobilità