Pedestrians, Urban Spaces and Health (ePub)

• Accessibility and road safety in an urban environment focusing on non-motorized road users and the quality of urban public space








• Physical risk analysis and planning about town planning and city development








• Urban morphology and public space morphology concerning the main city functions re-localisations and developments in different historical periods








• Linear technological infrastructures in urban and rural areas focusing on road infrastructures and improving relations between technical infrastructures and vegetation








• Land planning and management applying research results to different territorial plans








• Contemporary cities and metropolises: urban renewal and mega attractors in contemporary cities








• Metropolitan corridors and megalopolises: the figure of metropolitan cities/regions isn't always representative of the metropolitan phenomenology which is actually based on high density realities aligned along a line which forms a corridor (that of a linear metropolis) based on a relation-system that we can define "metropolitan"








• Public spaces renewal applying resilient city concepts








• Land take phenomena, soil sealing and related planning solution

Anna Richiedei is an Environmental Engineer and obtained a PhD in Town and Regional Planning. As Research fellow at the University of Brescia, she teaches Analysis of Urban and Regional Systems and Ethics for Environmental Sustainability. She organized 18 conferences, attended conferences in Italy and abroad as a participant (more than 60) or speaker (over 20), and is author of about 50 publications. Richiedei is President of the Provincial Centre for Urban Studies of Brescia and member of the board of Regional Centre for Urban Studies of Lombardy. Her main research fields are: regional and urban planning, the sustainability of urban settlement, environmental assessments and soil consumption containment.