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🌿 Green corridors and nature-based solutions are shaping the future of our cities 🌿

Imagine streets like this: lined with trees, filled with flowers, welcoming to pedestrians, and alive with biodiversity. 🌸🌳
This is the power of integrating green corridors and nature-based solutions into urban design.

These elements do more than beautify our cities — they:
🌱 Cool urban temperatures,
🐦 Support local ecosystems,
🚶‍♀️ Encourage walking and active mobility,
🧘 Improve public health and well-being,
🌍 And help build resilient, climate-adapted cities.

By rethinking streets as green, walkable public spaces, we connect people, nature, and communities.

Let’s build cities that breathe. 💚

Before and After in Paris Avenue Debidour, 19th arrondissement.

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🎉 Our latest research has just been published in Smart Cities!

📄 Equitable Access to Urban Green Spaces under Heat Stress: An Agent-Based Simulation (ABS) of Age-Differentiated Walkability through a Behavioral Perspective

✍️ Tao D**g & Massimo Tadi

As climate change intensifies urban heat stress, equitable access to green spaces becomes a critical challenge. Our study investigates how age, walkability, and behavioral dynamics influence people’s ability to reach and benefit from urban green areas under extreme heat conditions.

The findings highlight the strategic role of urban design in supporting climate adaptation, public health, and environmental justice.

🌿 Advancing knowledge for more resilient, accessible, and human-centered cities.

Find at: https://www.mdpi.com/2624-6511/9/6/97

Equitable Access to Urban Green Spaces Under Heat Stress: An Agent-Based Simulation (ABS) of Age-Differentiated Walkability Through a Behavioral Perspective Urban green spaces play a critical role in mitigating heat stress and enhancing urban livability, in line with the objectives and expectations of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 10 (Reduced Inequalities) and 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities). This study employs Physarealm (Gra...