Carmela Gargiulo- Professor
- Professor (Full) at University of Naples Federico II
Carmela Gargiulo
- Professor
- Professor (Full) at University of Naples Federico II
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The research interests focus on the processes of urban requalification, on relationships between urban transformations and mobility, and on the estate exploitation produced by urban transformations. Scientific Responsible of PRIN project on the “Impacts of mobility policies on urban transformability, environment and property market” 2011-13. Scientific Responsible of the Project Smart Energy Master for the energy management of territory financed by PON 04A2_00120 R&C Axis II, 2012-2015.
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November 2017 - present
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Climate change represents one of the main threats to which our planet is called to respond. IPCC highlights how to climate variability will intensify in the coming decades and extreme events related will constitute a growing risk for our cities, like the heatwaves. In particular, the urban heat island (UHI) effect further exacerbates the heat stres...
The worldwide push to promote sustainability has placed the energy transition as an action priority, especially considering the impacts of climate change and the current energy crisis. Despite the widespread acceptance that local action is essential for achieving low-carbon cities that save non-renewable energy sources, a lack of integration betwee...
Cities are the places where multiple challenges related to environmental, economic, social, and cultural phenomena are condensed. The increasing physical and systemic sensitivity/vulnerability of cities represents an opportunity to experiment with new models of urban development. Among these models, the scientific community is devoting particular a...
To rapidly adapt cities to the growing impacts of climate change, the open space system can play important functions as climate regulators and accelerators of sustainable urban development. To this end, this paper aims to provide a methodology that classifies open spaces on the basis of their physical characteristics and their contribution to clima...
The Covid-19 emergency has changed the face of our cities, preventing most urban activities, limiting travel
over large, medium and short distances and drastically reducing the number and intensity of social
relationships. The restrictive measures imposed on the entire population have significantly influenced the
experience of our built environment...
The extreme events that the planet is experiencing are indisputable proof of climate change. Effective strategies are required to reduce the exposure and vulnerability of cities to such risks. This work aims to contribute to the cultural and technical debate on the governance of urban transformations for limiting the impacts related to global warmi...
Since the 1990s, the scientific debate on territorial competitiveness has gone through different phases due to the various events that have occurred such as uncontrolled urbanisation, globalisation and digitalisation. Initially linked to competition between companies and, subsequently, to the productivity of countries, today, competitiveness is pla...
The European Union has reacted to the pandemic with the program NextGenerationEU (NGEU) to boost the recovery and development of the EU countries by relying on National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs). Given the pivotal role of cities, and in particular major cities, as engines of social and economic growth, the success of the program necessa...
In terms of residual physical activities suitable for most elderly individuals, walking is also the favoured form of mobility in this group, in particular for those aged 75 and over. For this segment of the population, walking represents the main means of accessing urban services and actively participating in community life. It is thus essential to...
Active mobility, in the form of walking and cycling, is one of the most affordable and practical ways to promote sustainable modes of transport in urban areas, creating walkable, safe, healthy and livable environments. Given its multiple beneficial effects, the scientific community frequently considers it as a driver of urban regeneration, highligh...
Cities accessible in 15 minutes represent a new possibility for reorganizing the urban system (times, spaces and activities) to try to respond to many current challenges, including ageing populations, energy saving and, more recently, Covid-19. A renewed concept of urban accessibility, together with the redefinition of public spaces and "soft" ways...
The state of abandonment which historical districts have experienced from the second post-war period is rooted in the inadequacy of urban services, the lower level of accessibility, the lack of green urban areas and the shift of economic activities in the suburbs. Urban regeneration, since the mid-1990s, has been promoted to enhance and improve the...
Urban competitiveness, the study of which has broadened significantly in recent decades, is the ability of a city to attract investments, people and new activities. It depends on a multitude of closely interrelated factors that characterise urban areas. The multidimensional approach, which is typical of urban competitiveness studies, allows the att...
The 15-minute city seems to represent a new way of looking at the city and responding to many current challenges, including climate change, aging population, and most recently Covid-19. However, if the 15-minute city idea is useful to guarantee an adequate supply of basic services, its basic principles cannot be adaptable to what we consider a city...
This study proposes a GIS-based methodology to measure accessibility to urban services, from the elderly perspective to support urban planning processes. In the light of a significant demographic change, policymakers should promote age-friendly urban planning approaches in order to guarantee equal opportunities to access to services and activities....
The academic debate has been turn the attention on pedestrian accessibility to urban services, as walking allow to solve several issues ranging from social and health problems also accentuated by the ongoing pandemic. The innovation in geospatial field has encouraged the development of accessibility and walkability measures and indicators oriented...
This article - published in Italian in 1993 with the title “Caos e caos: la città come fenomeno complesso” as a contribution in the volume “For the XXI century – an encyclopedia and a project” – is published again in this new section of TeMA Journal, Evergreen, in its literal English translation with the addition of new images. This section aims at...
Il volume raccoglie le conclusioni di un lavoro di ricerca che costituisce il naturale quanto autonomo sviluppo dei risultati del progetto MOBILAGE – Mobility and ageing: daily life and welfare supportive networks at the neighborhood level, finanziato nel biennio 2018-2020 da Fondazione Cariplo (Gant N° 2017-0942) e concluso nel giugno 2020.
La qu...
ll volume raccoglie le conclusioni di un lavoro di ricerca che costituisce il naturale quanto autonomo sviluppo dei risultati del progetto MOBILAGE – Mobility and ageing: daily life and welfare supportive networks at the neighborhood level, finanziato nel biennio 2018-2020 da Fondazione Cariplo (Gant N° 2017-0942) e concluso nel giugno 2020.
La que...
The study of pedestrian accessibility aimed at improving the physical and functional organization of the urban system is of significant interest in the international scientific community, as the opportunities for pedestrian movement within the urban system affect the behavior and lifestyles of pedestrians in their everyday life. In particular, many...
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 characte...
This contribution aims to assess accessibility to public transport services for the elderly. We propose a method to evaluate the service area on foot around public transport stops, based on the mobility of the elderly, considering both the more detailed sub-district urban level. The first section of this contribution deals with the significant demo...
This paper aims at proposing a possible alternative point of view to investigate the vulnerability of urban systems. The basic ideal refers to the possibility of thinking about vulnerability as deriving by the interactions of several risks that can affect the urban system and by the interactions among them. In this sense, it is possible to refer to...
The Covid-19 emergency has changed the face of our cities, preventing most urban activities, limiting travel over large, medium and short distances and drastically reducing the number and intensity of social relationships. The restrictive measures imposed on the entire population have significantly influenced the experience of our built environment...
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...
The paper proposes a focus on three main aspects related to the spread of the new coronavirus in our country: the correlations that have been established between the spread of the Covid-19 virus and the settlement system of our country; the urban and territorial phenomena that can be associated, positively or negatively, with the diffusion of the v...
In adapting urban areas to climate change, green areas constitute a precious capital due to the improvement in thermal comfort and energy saving. In order to provide a decision support tool based on the relationship between the green network and urban features, this study proposes a method for (i) defining the sections of urban territory affected b...
Climate change will be one of the main global challenges in the future. In this context cities play a key role. If, on the one hand, cities cause climate change, on the other hand, they are the places where climate change impacts are most evident, as it deeply affects the quality of life of its inhabitants. Climate change impacts are particularly r...
The progressive ageing of population requires rethinking the spatial planning of the urban spaces and activities to guarantee the best accessibility and usability to urban services of interest for the elderly segment of the population. In this perspective, the paper provides a
methodology oriented to reorganize the urban services to better satisfy...
This study aims to contribute to theoretical debate concerning urban planning, highlighting the need for a renewal of approaches and tools that could allow for the achievement of urban smartness. The concept of urban sustainability is evolving, also in relation to the incoming world of “smart cities,” and it should be related to a systemic vision o...
Between 5th and 8th September 2018 the tenth edition of the INPUT conference took place in Viterbo, guests of the beautiful setting of the University of Tuscia and its DAFNE Department.
INPUT is managed by an informal group of Italian academic researchers working in many fields related to the exploitation of informatics in planning.
This Tenth E...
The paper presents a research aimed at individuating the way to apply the Smart city paradigm in the 12 largest Italian cities. The results indicate that the potential of this approach don’t depend on ICT employment, but the transition from a “traditional” city to a Smart city could be smoothened by adopting strategic agenda that appropriately take...
Until a few years ago, the elderly were considered as fragile, lonely, marginalized citizens, unable to live independently and had generally been "invisible" in studies and planning instruments that involved the governance of urban transformations. In recent years, a major focus of attention has been paid to the matter in urban development policies...
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 Società Italiana degli Economisti dei Trasporti e della Logistica (SIET), focused on the MOBILAGE (Mobility and aging: daily life and welfare supportive networks a...
The phenomenon of rapid and unplanned urban growth, driven by the migration from rural to urban areas, has hindered healthy urbanization and undermined sustainable development. Sustainability assessment has become one of the popular terms in different fields, especially in architecture and urban planning, and world leading urban sustainability asse...
This book offers an overview of sustainability and urban mobility in the context of urban planning – topics that are of considerable interest in the development of smart cities. Environmental sustainability is universally recognized as a fundamental condition for any urban policy or urban management activity, while mobility is essential for the sur...
The paper is part of the scientific research sector concerning the government of urban transformations in order to promote efficiency and reduction of energy consumption in urban areas. In this study, urban greenspaces (green areas) are proposed as a strategy for cities to achieve both urban sustainability and resilience while addressing the issues...
A growing body of international researchers has been studying the complex relationship between cities and energy consumption so to support local policy makers’ decisions and foster the transition towards a low-carbon future. However, despite the great interest of the literature for this topic, a consistent number of interactions between urban featu...
The relationship between cities and energy consumption has been of great interest for the scientific community for over twenty years. Most of the energy consumption, indeed, occurs in cities because of the high concentration of human activities. Thus, cities are responsible for a big share of carbon dioxide emissions (CO2). However, the debate on t...
This comprehensive reference text is a collection of important research findings on the latest developments in network modeling for optimization of smart cities. Such models can be used from outlining the fundamental concepts of urban development to the description and optimization of physical networks, such as power, water or telecommunications. N...
From an urban planner perspective, a city is smart
when is able to respond to the needs of its inhabitants in a more
efficient and sustainable way, mainly by properly using
information and communication technologies (ICTs). This
definition of smart city highlights the importance of two main
factors for the development of smarter cities: citizens an...
The consequences of climate change urges researchers to investigate the issues of environmental sustainability, and the definition of policies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions has become more urgent. In this context, urban areas play a significant role since here, economic, productive and social activities are concentrated and, therefore, the...
The aspects of sustainability, to date, emerge as a central theme within the plethora of definitions of the Smart City. In the current debate, the awareness that ICT is only one of the tools and not the key to the new design of the urban organism is growing, especially according to the new requirements to meet the needs of the present without compr...
This paper presents lessons learnt through empirical research work developed in three metropolitan cities in South Italy aimed at exploring if and how the “Smart” framework might improve urban planning in cities with lacks in planning processes. Authors argue that organized networks of citizens (such as non-profit organizations or private associati...
The increasing levels of congestion and pollution, especially due to private vehicular traffic, are drastically reducing quality of life in the most densely populated European cities, which are characterized by a strong physical and functional stratification. During the last ten years in order to reduce such externalities, several cities have adopt...
There is no debate that the 2008/09 economic crisis has severely affected housing market in Italy at national, regional and city level and Naples has been one of the most hit cities of the country. Indeed, data from the Italian Revenue Agency show that between 2006 and 2014 the normalized transactions number of housing units in Naples has extraordi...
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 rela...
Urban retrofit is becoming increasingly established as one of the most effective solutions to contain the energy consumption of the existing building stock, to reduce vulnerability to natural and man-made risk and generally improve the quality of built space. However, the planning of retrofit interventions at urban scale should take account of the...
Questo contributo vuole essere, allo stesso tempo, un approfondimento scientifico e uno stimolo culturale orientati ad integrare due aspetti che la comunità scientifica impegnata nella soluzione dei problemi della città del futuro ritengono fondamentali nella definizione di metodi, tecniche e strumenti per il governo delle trasformazioni territoria...
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In the last decade, several studies have developed and updated different rankings of countries, regions and cities in order to describe and measure their performance in a varied urban aspects, including economic and social ones. In particular, as the number of composite indexes develope...
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Il volume raccoglie i risultati del progetto di ricerca "Governance Analysis Project (GAP) per la Smart Energy City. L'attuazione delle Smart City nelle aree metropolitane in Europa e in Italia" svolto nell'ambito del PON "Smart Energy Master per il governo energetico del territorio" pr...
European cities are essential actors for transition to a low carbon society on a 2050 horizon. Urban activities account for 80 % of energy consumption in Europe as well as most GHG emissions. The need for a new paradigm based on energy efficiency and saving thus represents both a challenge and an opportunity to local authorities who have to deal wi...
The challenges imposed by the changing climate and the energy-driven developments are very complex and need to be addressed from the global to the local scale. In the last decades, this issue has attracted the attention of policy makers at all levels of government, attempting to adopt an integrated and adaptive energy and climate strategy. This pap...
Climate change, energy issues and urban population growth are among the main themes on which the scientific debate focuses today. Over the last decades, the literature has proposed different approaches to face these challenges. This paper focuses on two widely debated approaches: the smart and the resilient city paradigms, that continue to draw the...
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...
The many challenges currently faced by cities around the world require the adoption of innovative strategies and actions. Among the various paradigms, many urban development processes have taken on board the paradigm of the Smart City, which is emerging strongly in the European context. Through the application of new technologies in different areas...
Smart is an expression used in recent years in science, and it refers to someone or something that shows a lively intelligence, with a quick learning curve and a fast response to external stimuli. The present scenario is dominated by the accelerated technological development that involves every aspect of life, enhancing the everyday tools through t...
Il Progetto Smart Energy Master per il governo energetico del territorio
(SEM) finanziato nell’ambito dell’Azione integrata per lo Sviluppo
Sostenibile - Energy Efficiency and Low Carbon Technologies del Pon
Smart Cities and Communities 04a2_E propone buone pratiche e soluzioni
di governance orientate al risparmio energetico che mettano in
relazion...
Il Progetto Smart Energy Master per il governo energetico del territorio (SEM), finanziato nell’ambito dell’Azione integrata per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile - Energy Efficiency and Low Carbon Technologies del Pon Smart Cities and Communities 04a2_E, propone buone pratiche e soluzioni di governance orientate al risparmio energetico che mettano in relazi...
The population growth of those living in urban areas reaches 50% of the total population, causing air pollution and energy consumption, which is also due to the high density of urban activities. This gradual process of urbanization, which covers an area equal to 2% of the world, is responsible for about 75% of the total consumption of resources. Al...
he financial crisis of 2008-09 that has spread from the U.S. to the whole world, initiated with the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers bank, has affected a wide range of territories, from large metropolitan areas to small urban centers in industrialized Western nations.
Now it is generally acknowledged that countries, regions and cities compete against...
Transport energy consumption accounts for about one third of total energy consumption in EU. Despite significant advances in transport technology and fuel formulation, transport energy consumption has increased in most EU countries over the last three decades. This increase in consumption occurred as a result of factors such as higher car ownership...
This paper describes a segment of research conducted within the project PON 04a2_E Smart Energy Master for the energetic government of the territory conducted by the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environment Engineering, University of Naples "Federico II". In particular, this article is part of the study carried out for the definition of t...
The present paper illustrates the results of the first steps of a study on one aspect investigated as the preliminary step of the definition of the analysis - comprehension model of the relation between: city, buildings, and user behavior, for the reduction of energy consumption within the research project “Smart Energy Master” for the energetic go...
This paper describes a part of the research carried out by the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (DICEA) of the University of Naples “Federico II”, within the Project Smart Energy Master for the energy management of territory, financed by PON 04a2_E R&C Axis II, from 2012 to 2015. Today that the idea of smart city dra...
City transformations are also due to the development of new energy sources, which have influenced economy and lifestyles, as well as the physical and functional organization of urban systems. Cities are the key place where it is need to act for the achievement of strategic environmental objectives, such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions and ener...
In recent years, the effects of climate change on urban areas have pushed more and more policy-makers and urban planners to deal with the management of territorial transformations in a systemic and multi-sector perspective, due to the complexity of the issue. In order to enhance the urban governance of climate change and cope with environmental sus...
In recent years, the effects of climate change on urban areas have pushed more and more policy-makers and urban planners to deal with the management of territorial transformations in a systemic and multi-sector perspective, due to the complexity of the issue. In order to enhance the urban governance of climate change and cope with environmental sus...
City transformations are also due to the development of new energy sources, which have influenced economy and lifestyles, as well as the physical and functional organization of urban systems. Cities are the key place where it is need to act for the achievement of strategic environmental objectives, such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions and ener...
This paper describes a part of the research carried out by the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (DICEA) of the University of Naples “Federico II”, within the Project Smart Energy Master for the energy management of territory, financed by PON 04a2_E R&C Axis II, from 2012 to 2015. Today that the idea of smart city dra...
Transport energy consumption accounts for about one third of total energy consumption in EU. Despite significant advances in transport technology and fuel formulation, transport energy consumption has increased in most EU countries over the last three decades. This increase in consumption occurred as a result of factors such as higher car ownership...
This paper describes a segment of research conducted within the project PON 04a2_E Smart Energy Master for the energetic government of the territory conducted by the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environment Engineering, University of Naples "Federico II". In particular, this article is part of the study carried out for the definition of t...
The present paper illustrates the results of the first steps of a study on one aspect investigated as the preliminary step of the definition of the analysis - comprehension model of the relation between: city, buildings, and user behavior, for the reduction of energy consumption within the research project “Smart Energy Master” for the energetic go...
Il futuro della ricerca scientifica nei settori dell’urbanistica e dei trasporti è affidato sempre più all’integrazione tra le discipline che fanno riferimento al governo delle trasformazioni urbane e quelle che sono orientate al governo della mobilità: attività localizzate e domanda di spostamento sono due aspetti dello stesso fenomeno insediativo...
Much has changed since Krugman argued that only firms compete to each other and not territories (1994); it is now generally accepted that countries, regions and cities do compete against each other and this competition is getting fiercer, especially since emerging countries and cities are growing faster, questioning the power of more developed urba...
In recent years European Commission has developed a set of documents for Members States tracing, directly or indirectly, recommendations for the transformation of the European city. The paper wants to outline which future EU draws for the city, a future often suggested as Smart City. This aim is achieved through an integrated and contextual reading...
In recent years European Commission has developed
a set of documents for Members States tracing,
directly or indirectly, recommendations for the
transformation of the European city.
The paper wants to outline which future EU draws
for the city, a future often suggested as Smart City.
This aim is achieved through an integrated and
contextual reading...
The concept of “Smart City”, providing a solution for making cities more efficient and sustainable, has been quite popular in recent years, encouraging reflections, ideas, researches and projects for a “smart” urban development.
A smart city is generally meant as a city capable of joining “competitiveness” and “sustainability”, by integrating diffe...
The issue of integration among city, mobility and energy plays a central role in the current EU policies, aimed at achieving energy saving targets, independence from fossil fuels and enhance of the urban systems resilience, but the strategies of the single states are, however, still far from its implementation. This paper proposes a reading of the...
The great increase in the demand for private mobility with the consequent macroscopic growth of channels to meet it, together with short-sighted policies of transport and urban development spread above all in Italy, has produced pollution, congestion and unlivability in the last fifty years.The hope of assuring the maximum individual freedom of tr...
Gli ambiti territoriali urbanizzati rappresentano contesti sufficientemente complessi sotto molti aspetti la cui gestione richiede, da un lato, adeguate doti di mediazione tra le diverse esigenze, spesso contrastanti, ma, nel contempo, una chiara visione dell’obiettivo verso cui puntare. Uno di tali aspetti è rappresentato dalla esigenza di garanti...
The great increase in the demand for private mobility with theconsequent macroscopic growth of channels to meet it, togetherwith short-sighted policies of transport and urban developmentspread above all in Italy, has produced pollution, congestion andunlivability in the last fifty years.The hope of assuring the maximum individual freedom of travel...
The article aims reading and interpreting the positive externalities, especially in terms of urban redevelopment, connected to the building of node/station of the High Speed railway network. The measure of the variations of the real estate values, carried out through the analysis of numerous European and Italian experiences, is considered as a synt...
The methodological target of this paper consists in setting up a supporting tool for the public decision-maker in individuating the areas for parking within urban territory. The construction of this tool is guided by criteria referring more to urban and regional planning choices than to transport ones and concerning mostly the integration among env...
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Call for papers: TeMA vol. 10 (2017) Methods, tools and best practices to increase the capacity of urban systems to adapt to natural and man-made changes
In the forthcoming decades, cities will face a range of climate, technological and socio-economic challenges that will require the development of integrated and adaptive strategies.
Thus, the 10th volume of the TeMA Journal will promote the debate on the definition and the implementation of methods, tools and best practices aimed at improving energy efficiency (e.g. green and blue infrastructures) at the neighbourhood level while increasing the capacity (i.e. resilience) of urban systems to adapt to natural changes (e.g. climate change) and/or man-made changes (e.g. migration flow, land take, tourism, suburban areas degradation, free car areas).
The Journal also welcomes contributions that strategically address the following issues:
Metropolitan area governance as driver of development;
The relationship between real estate values and urban regeneration;
New forms of urban mobility and their relationships with the urban form.
Publishing frequency is quadrimestral. For this reason, authors interested in submitting manuscripts addressing the aforementioned issues may consider the following deadlines:
First issue: 10th January 2017;
Second issue: 10th May 2017;
Third issue: 10th September 2017.
For submissions click
