Pedestrians, Urban Spaces and Health
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Pedestrians, Urban Spaces and Health discusses problems that affect the safety of pedestrians in the city, especially of children and persons with reduced mobility.

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Pedestrians, Urban Spaces and Health discusses problems that affect the safety of pedestrians in the city, especially of children and persons with reduced mobility.
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Maurizio Tira is Chancellor of University of Brescia since November 2016 and Full Professor of Town and Regional Planning. He is President of the Italian Society of Urban Planners (SIU), member of the board and Past-President of the National Centre for Urban Studies (CeNSU) and Past-President of the Italian "Agenda 21" Association. Tira has been responsible for several research projects and he chaired the EU-COST Action "Land management for urban dynamics". He is expert of the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) since 1999. In particular, he has been Chairman of the working groups named "Evaluation of road safety policies" and "Road safety policy integration" of the project SEC-belt, coordinated by ETCS. Furthermore, Tira is expert member in two working parties of OECD-International Transport Forum about "Pedestrian safety, Urban space and health" and "Cycling safety". Finally, Maurizio Tira is author of nearly 250 publications concerning the relation between mobility and urban planning, road safety, the methods for planning in hazardous areas and the techniques for drawing municipal and regional plans, and coordinated applied research projects on these topics for public administrations. Michèle Pezzagno is Associate Professor in Town and Country Planning, Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture, Land, Environment and Mathematics, University of Brescia, Ph.D., and has a Master degree in Architecture. As author of more than 120 publications, her main scientific and research interests include: * 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.