Abstract
The new mobility paradigm, the spread of new city models and the recent pandemic have highlighted the variability and complexity of people’s mobility. There is a widespread need for dynamic urban planning strategies to adapt to circumstances and mitigate the risk of dangerous events such as natural disasters and pandemics. The last decade has been characterised by urban transformation processes that have often led to inequalities in spatial and infrastructural distribution and services. To reduce this criticality, it is necessary to investigate the reciprocal influence between the spatial configuration of the built environment and the way everyday mobility is implemented and becomes habitual, and its relationship with the inequalities mentioned above (e.g. suburbs, degraded areas, urban voids). This research focuses on studying the evolution of the accessibility of the small mountainous urban centre of Zafferana Etnea, which seismic phenomena have hit several times. In the first instance, the work identified and characterised the case study by estimating the mobility demand based on access and the analysis of the spatial configuration (buildings, infrastructures and services). Similarly, the research proposes the definition of the primary attractive nodes of the city, zoning and the purpose of key factors for the definition of mobility indicators that allow the realisation of a quantitative analysis of transport demand and supply based on indicators rather than on the configuration of the urban fabric, which will be addressed with theoretical and methodological tools provided by the spatial syntax.
This paper is the result of the joint work of the authors. ‘Abstract’, ‘Literature review: Accessibility and mobility and the combination of walkability and Space Syntax’, ‘Results’ and ‘Discussion and Conclusions’ were written jointly by the authors. Antonio Russo wrote ‘The case study of Zafferana Etnea in Sicily’. Tiziana Campisi wrote ‘The development of the correlation between mobility and urban spaces in the post-pandemic phase’. Alfonso Annunziata wrote ‘Space Syntax analysis’. Chiara Garau wrote the ‘Introduction’. Chiara Garau and Tiziana Campisi coordinated and supervised the paper.
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This work started and developed as a result of a project proposal within the doctoral course "Smart and Sustainable Cities (2nd edition)" (https://dottorati.unica.it/dotticar/smart-and-sustainable-cities-2- Edizione/). This study was supported by the MIUR through the project "WEAKI TRANSIT: WEAK-demand areas Innovative TRANsport Shared services for Italian Towns (Project code: 20174ARRHT /CUP Code: J74I19000320008), financed with the PRIN 2017 (Research Projects of National Relevance) programme. We authorise the MIUR to reproduce and distribute reprints for Governmental purposes, notwithstanding any copyright notations thereon. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the MIUR. This paper is also supported by Cagliari Accessibility Lab, an interdepartmental centre at the University of Cagliari (Rector’s Decree of 4 March 2020. https://www.unica.it/unica/it/cagliari_accessibility_lab.page).
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Russo, A., Campisi, T., Tesoriere, G., Annunziata, A., Garau, C. (2022). Accessibility and Mobility in the Small Mountain Municipality of Zafferana Etnea (Sicily): Coupling of Walkability Assessment and Space Syntax. In: Gervasi, O., Murgante, B., Misra, S., Rocha, A.M.A.C., Garau, C. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2022 Workshops. ICCSA 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13377. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10536-4_23
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