Fábio Duarte
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584359 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fábio Duarte |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fábio |
| FAMILY NAME | Duarte |
| SIGNATURE | DUARTE F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0909-5379 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 63 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
How multi-sensory experience shapes place-based human sentiments: A hyperlocal analysis using environmental sensing and social media data in the Bronx, New York City
What Makes a Place Safe? Assessing AI-Generated Safety Perception Scores Using Stockholm’s Street View Images
This article investigates what causes an urban environment to be perceived as safe using Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, as the study area. The study integrates AI-generated safety scores from street view images, image segmentation techniques and conventional and crowdsourced data using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and regression models. After accounting for income, crime and other area characteristics, the models reveal that areas wi…
Decoding human safety perception with eye-tracking systems, street view images, and explainable AI
Data Slots: Trade-offs between privacy concerns and benefits of data-driven solutions
Cities are increasingly adopting data-driven solutions derived from diverse digital media interactions—from geolocated social media posts and self-tracking apps to CCTV surveillance and transit cards. We define a data-driven solution as an application, service, or device that leverages big data. However, concerns persist about the potential trade-off between the benefits of these solutions and individual privacy. To assess people’s opinions on th…
Beijing’s urbanization reflected in apartment layouts: A computer vision and isovist analysis (1970–2020)
Over the past five decades, China has witnessed rapid urbanization. Since the 1970s, Beijing’s population has grown 150%, its subway network expanded from a single line covering 10.7 kilometers to 27 lines spanning 836 kilometers, and its housing stock has increased by 95.3%. These significant urban changes have paralleled national economic and social transformations, notably after China opened its markets to international trade in 1978. This stu…
Assessing the impact of greenery on urban heat using opportunistic drive-by sensing
The urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon is recognized as a main urban sustainability problem in the face of a changing climate, affecting human health, energy consumption, and other socio-economic considerations. The UHI can be mitigated by urban greenery, but it needs further investigation of detailed impacts across the urban landscape. The aim was to study UHI and model the relation to greenery in combination with urban grey structures, at a hig…
The effect of air pollution exposure on menstrual cycle health using self-reported data from a mobile health app: A prospective, observational study
Unveiling inequalities: The intersection of gender and income in accessibility in Curitiba, Brazil
This research investigates accessibility inequalities in Curitiba, Brazil, employing an intersectional analysis of gender and income groups within the urban context. We utilized an Agent-based model (AxS model) to generate artificial trajectories from the Origin-Destination (OD) survey aggregated dataset and calculate individual accessibility metrics. The findings reveal that, overall, men have greater accessibility to opportunities than women in…
Transferred Bias Uncovers the Balance Between the Development of Physical and Socioeconomic Environments of Cities
Evaluating the balance between a city’s physical and socioeconomic environmental development is crucial for creating sustainable and livable urban spaces. Although they might appear contradictory, they jointly support the comprehensive sustainable urban development strategy. Traditional methods usually focus on assessing this balance from a specific perspective, such as how neighborhood greenery shapes real estate value. Yet, they fail to deliver…
Urban visual uniqueness: A landmark-free framework to quantify city's identity and distinctiveness from everyday scenes
Walking smart in the heat: A dynamic shade-oriented pathfinding approach to enhance pedestrian comfort in arid cities
Modeling shared e-micromobility as a label propagation process for detecting overlapping communities
Crime and Visually Perceived Safety of the Built Environment: A Deep Learning Approach
Place identity: A generative AI’s perspective
Do cities have a collective identity? The latest advancements in generative artificial intelligence (AI) models have enabled the creation of realistic representations learned from vast amounts of data. In this study, we test the potential of generative AI as the source of textual and visual information in capturing the place identity of cities assessed by filtered descriptions and images. We asked questions on the place identity of 64 global citi…
When Cities Go Nuclear: Exploring the Applications of Nuclear Batteries Toward Energy Transformation
Global society faces the pressing question of how to eliminate reliance on fossil fuels while meeting increasing energy demand. In comparison to solar and wind energy, nuclear power has been largely ignored in urban studies research. However, nuclear energy has recently regained attention through the emergence of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), and as the stakes of decarbonization become increasingly essential. To evaluate situations in which SMRs…
Tools and methods for monitoring the health of the urban greenery
Urban Visual Intelligence: Studying Cities with Artificial Intelligence and Street-Level Imagery
The visual dimension of cities has been a fundamental subject in urban studies since the pioneering work of late-nineteenth- to mid-twentieth-century scholars such as Camillo Sitte, Kevin Lynch, Rudolf Arnheim, and Jane Jacobs. Several decades later, big data and artificial intelligence (AI) are revolutionizing how people move, sense, and interact with cities. This article reviews the literature on the appearance and function of cities to illustr…
Comprehensive urban space representation with varying numbers of street-level images
Smart curbs: Measuring street activities in real-time using computer vision
Assessing differences in safety perceptions using GeoAI and survey across neighbourhoods in Stockholm, Sweden
Improving NO2 prediction by integrating tree diversity, urban form, and scale sensitivity through mobile monitoring
Watch out! Cities as data engines: (Curmudgeon)
Third-party signals in crowdfunded microfinance: Which microfinance institutions boost crowdfunding among refugee entrepreneurs
Despite the relevance of crowdfunding as a financing tool for underrepresented entrepreneurs, prior research pays scant attention to the funding gap for refugee entrepreneurs. Using a composite framework that integrates both entrepreneurship research and signalling theory, the current study investigates how microfinance institutions (MFIs) and refugee entrepreneurs can deploy signals to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities on digital platforms. T…
Cities and infectious diseases: Assessing the exposure of pedestrians to virus transmission along city streets
As cities resume life in public space, they face the difficult task of retaining outdoor activity while decreasing exposure to airborne viruses, such as the novel coronavirus. Even though the transmission risk is higher in indoor spaces, recent evidence suggests that physical contact outdoors also contributes to an increased virus exposure. Given that streets constitute the largest percentage of public space in cities, there is an increasing need…
New urban habits in Stockholm following Covid-19
During the COVID-19 pandemic, physical distancing, mobility restrictions and self-isolation measures were implemented around the world as the primary intervention to prevent the virus from spreading. Urban life has undergone sweeping changes, with people using spaces in new ways. Stockholm is a particularly relevant case of this phenomenon since most facilities, such as day care centres and schools, have remained open, in contrast to cities with …
Urban Visual Intelligence: Studying Cities with Artificial Intelligence and Street-Level Imagery
The visual dimension of cities has been a fundamental subject in urban studies since the pioneering work of late-nineteenth- to mid-twentieth-century scholars such as Camillo Sitte, Kevin Lynch, Rudolf Arnheim, and Jane Jacobs. Several decades later, big data and artificial intelligence (AI) are revolutionizing how people move, sense, and interact with cities. This article reviews the literature on the appearance and function of cities to illustr…
Exploring the effect of air pollution on social activity in China using geotagged social media check-in data
Understanding architecture age and style through deep learning
Impactos ambientais da mobilidade urbana: Cinco Categorias De Medidas Mitigadoras
Desde 1970, a emissão de CO2 no setor industrial cresceu 65% em todo o mundo, contra 120% no de transportes - e 80% da energia utilizada para a mobilidade área urbana têm origem na queima de combustíveis fósseis. Assim, a motorização da mobilidade urbana é um dos principais emissores de gases de efeito estufa. Para analisar este cenário, este artigo toma como base a produção científica internacional produzida do Protocolo de Kyoto (1997) à confer…
From Sars to Covid-19: Digital infrastructures of surveillance and segregation in exceptional times
Informal institutions and path dependence in urban planning: The case of Curitiba, Brazil
A process is recognized as collaborative when it demonstrates the involvement of multiple stakeholders who are mobilized to interact and negotiate horizontally in order to achieve common objectives. Although efforts can be made to make a process collaborative, a governance process is situated in particular histories and geographies, and collectively shared cultures, norms, and behaviors can help or hinder the emergence of inclusive democratic pra…
Private video monitoring of public spaces: The construction of new invisible territories
The idea of smart cities is to a great extent based on the belief of planners and city managers that substantial (and instrumental) use of information and communication technologies in the management of urban functions can make cities work better. This is also part of the coordinated discourse adopted by planners, managers and politicians around the world in an attempt to position their cities in the fierce competition for revenue, jobs and peopl…
Understanding continuity in sustainable transport planning in Curitiba
The Brazilian city of Curitiba has long been recognised as an exemplary success in urban planning, particularly its sustainable urban transport, with modal splits strongly favouring public transit. Its success was achieved principally through rigorous and detailed planning, beginning in the 1970s, using policy tools that have been described, and sometimes criticised, as technocratic. After 40 years of a quite successful experience in transport pl…
Transferred Bias Uncovers the Balance Between the Development of Physical and Socioeconomic Environments of Cities
Evaluating the balance between a city’s physical and socioeconomic environmental development is crucial for creating sustainable and livable urban spaces. Although they might appear contradictory, they jointly support the comprehensive sustainable urban development strategy. Traditional methods usually focus on assessing this balance from a specific perspective, such as how neighborhood greenery shapes real estate value. Yet, they fail to deliver…
Cities and infectious diseases: Assessing the exposure of pedestrians to virus transmission along city streets
As cities resume life in public space, they face the difficult task of retaining outdoor activity while decreasing exposure to airborne viruses, such as the novel coronavirus. Even though the transmission risk is higher in indoor spaces, recent evidence suggests that physical contact outdoors also contributes to an increased virus exposure. Given that streets constitute the largest percentage of public space in cities, there is an increasing need…
New urban habits in Stockholm following Covid-19
During the COVID-19 pandemic, physical distancing, mobility restrictions and self-isolation measures were implemented around the world as the primary intervention to prevent the virus from spreading. Urban life has undergone sweeping changes, with people using spaces in new ways. Stockholm is a particularly relevant case of this phenomenon since most facilities, such as day care centres and schools, have remained open, in contrast to cities with …
Redes socio-técnicas y participación ciudadana: Propuestas conceptuales y analíticas para el uso de las Tics
La sociedad contemporánea tiene en los flujos de la información una de sus características más destacadas, siendo las nuevas tecnologías de la información y comunicación uno de sus pilares. En este contexto, el paradigma de las redes adquiere fuerza, sea cualitativamente (sociedad en red), o sea como instrumento analítico. Este último es el punto que desarrollaremos en el artículo desde un punto de vista conceptual y metodológico, para acercanos …
Rastros de um rio urbano: Cidade Comunicada, Cidade Percebida
A análise do modo como as pessoas vivenciam a cidade e como regiões fazem parte do imaginário urbano é uma das questões mais importantes para o sucesso de um projeto de intervenção urbana. Neste artigo, apresentamos uma metodologia para a análise de como um ambiente está presente e é construído no imaginário urbano, tomando como estudo de caso o rio Belém, na cidade de Curitiba
What Makes a Place Safe? Assessing AI-Generated Safety Perception Scores Using Stockholm’s Street View Images
This article investigates what causes an urban environment to be perceived as safe using Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, as the study area. The study integrates AI-generated safety scores from street view images, image segmentation techniques and conventional and crowdsourced data using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and regression models. After accounting for income, crime and other area characteristics, the models reveal that areas wi…
Unveiling inequalities: The intersection of gender and income in accessibility in Curitiba, Brazil
This research investigates accessibility inequalities in Curitiba, Brazil, employing an intersectional analysis of gender and income groups within the urban context. We utilized an Agent-based model (AxS model) to generate artificial trajectories from the Origin-Destination (OD) survey aggregated dataset and calculate individual accessibility metrics. The findings reveal that, overall, men have greater accessibility to opportunities than women in…
Urban visual uniqueness: A landmark-free framework to quantify city's identity and distinctiveness from everyday scenes
Crime and Visually Perceived Safety of the Built Environment: A Deep Learning Approach
Tools and methods for monitoring the health of the urban greenery
Spatial Design and Placemaking: Learning From Video Games
Spatial design and placemaking are fundamental to create a vibrant urban life, whereas video games are designed primarily for temporary amusement. However, they both share the same essence of creating large-scale artificial environments for human interaction as their fundamental value. Video game developers have been successfully using spatial design tools to create virtual environments to engage players and build narratives, understanding, and a…
Urban Phantasmagorias: Cinema and the Immanent Future of Cities
Cities experienced profound changes in the early 20th century, mainly as a result of industrialization. Along with architects and urban planners, fiction writers played a part in shedding light on some perverse or still unknown consequences of technology on society. Cinema is probably the first industrial art form and was from its beginning deeply involved in the creative portrayal of these changes. This ever-present urban imagery, rooted in conc…
Democracia no território digital
O ciberespaço é a trama informacional construída pelo entrelaçamento de meios de telecomunicação e informática. A Internet é uma de suas partes mais importantes e originou-se como estratégia de defesa norte-americana durante o período da Guerra Fria. Com o abrandamento do conflito bipolar, a rede alastrou-se em outros setores e adquiriu escala global. Sua força está em sua organização descentralizada, na manipulação de informações e ações feitas …
Cidades inteligentes: Inovação tecnológica no meio urbano
Neste artigo analisa-se como o desenvolvimento dos pólos de inovação tecnológica pode ser incorporado nos processos de gestão urbana, especialmente em projetos de recuperação de áreas urbanas
A cidade infiltrada: O Ambiente Urbano E Os Desafios Da Cultura Tecnológica
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Démocratie participative et gouvernance interactive au Brésil: Santos, Porto Alegre et Curitiba
La Constitution Fédérale de 1988 a donné une grande autonomie aux villes du Brésil. Il y a eu depuis une prolifération d’expériences participatives, surtout dans des villes gouvernées par les partis de gauche. Nous examinons la démocratie délibérative et dialogique et la gouvernance urbaine interactive, à partir des expériences du budget participatif et des conseils populaires dans les villes de Porto Alegre et Santos, ainsi que le modèle collabo…
La desocupación de los centros urbanos y la tipología de las viviendas: El mercado inmobiliario en Curitiba
Las regiones centrales de las ciudades conocen hace decenios un proceso de pérdida de población residente. En este artículo discutimos que, más que las cuestiones urbanísticas de infraestructura y diseño urbano de esas regiones incompatibles con las necesidades socioeconómicas y productivas de la ciudad contemporánea, ha habido (y este proceso se queda vigente) alteraciones significativas en los modos de vivir de la gente que presentan impactos d…
Redes socio-técnicas y participación ciudadana: Propuestas conceptuales y analíticas para el uso de las Tics
La sociedad contemporánea tiene en los flujos de la información una de sus características más destacadas, siendo las nuevas tecnologías de la información y comunicación uno de sus pilares. En este contexto, el paradigma de las redes adquiere fuerza, sea cualitativamente (sociedad en red), o sea como instrumento analítico. Este último es el punto que desarrollaremos en el artículo desde un punto de vista conceptual y metodológico, para acercanos …
Rastros de um rio urbano: Cidade Comunicada, Cidade Percebida
A análise do modo como as pessoas vivenciam a cidade e como regiões fazem parte do imaginário urbano é uma das questões mais importantes para o sucesso de um projeto de intervenção urbana. Neste artigo, apresentamos uma metodologia para a análise de como um ambiente está presente e é construído no imaginário urbano, tomando como estudo de caso o rio Belém, na cidade de Curitiba
Pervasive Technologies and Urban Planning in the Augmented City
Alessandro Aurigi and Fiorella De Cindio: Augmented urban spaces. Articulating the physical and electronic city
ICTs for Mobile and Ubiquitous Urban Infrastructures: Surveillance, Locative Media and Global Networks
"This book investigates how a shift to a completely urban global world woven together by ubiquitous and mobile ICTs changes the ontological meaning of space, and how the use of these technologies challenges the social and political construction of territories and the cultural appropriation of places" - Provided by publisher
Learning from Failures: Avoiding Asymmetrical Views of Public Transportation Initiatives in Curitiba
Curitiba, in Brazil, is known for the pioneering deployment of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in the 1970s, and its system became a reference model worldwide. However, from its very beginning, Curitiba's BRT competed with rail projects, from subway to light rail vehicles (VLT). These projects have been defended by many municipal technicians over the years as better solutions for urban transportation. From 1952, when the last tram ran in the city, up to …
Impactos ambientais da mobilidade urbana: Cinco Categorias De Medidas Mitigadoras
Desde 1970, a emissão de CO2 no setor industrial cresceu 65% em todo o mundo, contra 120% no de transportes - e 80% da energia utilizada para a mobilidade área urbana têm origem na queima de combustíveis fósseis. Assim, a motorização da mobilidade urbana é um dos principais emissores de gases de efeito estufa. Para analisar este cenário, este artigo toma como base a produção científica internacional produzida do Protocolo de Kyoto (1997) à confer…
Restrição ambiental ou oportunidade para o desenvolvimento sustentável? Aquífero Carste na Região Metropolitana de Curitiba
Em termos ambientais, a expansão de áreas urbanas tornou-se um problema mais grave do que o crescimento demográfico em si. Para fazer frente a esse desafio, a Organização para a Cooperação e Desenvolvimento Econômico (OCDE) indica a necessidade de mudanças na gestão das cidades, com a adoção de estratégias participativas de intervenção como forma de reduzir os conflitos socioambientais e diminuir o efeito da poluição sobre o meio natural. Este ar…
Migração das ideias urbanas no mundo lusófono Parte 2
A Conceptual Framework for Assessing Digital Cities and the Brazilian Index of Digital Cities: Analysis of Curitiba, the First-Ranked City
The concept of digital cities has gained prominence as the importance of ICTs is undoubtedly related to economic, social, and civic development. Brazil is following this trend, and the Ministry of Communications and CPqD created the Brazilian Digital Cities Index for evaluating national digital cities. Based on the concepts of connectivity, accessibility, and communicability that originated from the analysis of United Nations documents on the Inf…
Urban Phantasmagorias: Cinema and the Immanent Future of Cities
Cities experienced profound changes in the early 20th century, mainly as a result of industrialization. Along with architects and urban planners, fiction writers played a part in shedding light on some perverse or still unknown consequences of technology on society. Cinema is probably the first industrial art form and was from its beginning deeply involved in the creative portrayal of these changes. This ever-present urban imagery, rooted in conc…
Understanding continuity in sustainable transport planning in Curitiba
The Brazilian city of Curitiba has long been recognised as an exemplary success in urban planning, particularly its sustainable urban transport, with modal splits strongly favouring public transit. Its success was achieved principally through rigorous and detailed planning, beginning in the 1970s, using policy tools that have been described, and sometimes criticised, as technocratic. After 40 years of a quite successful experience in transport pl…
Disassembling Bike-Sharing Systems: Surveillance, Advertising, and the Social Inequalities of a Global Technological Assemblage
The rapid expansion of bike-share systems worldwide has been praised as a sign of the environmental movement, with positive consequences for transportation, the economy, and health in urban areas. But is it really possible that politicians, information-technology companies, and global players such as banks and advertising firms have suddenly joined the ranks of those advocating bicycle use for the sake of the environment and a better quality of l…
Private video monitoring of public spaces: The construction of new invisible territories
The idea of smart cities is to a great extent based on the belief of planners and city managers that substantial (and instrumental) use of information and communication technologies in the management of urban functions can make cities work better. This is also part of the coordinated discourse adopted by planners, managers and politicians around the world in an attempt to position their cities in the fierce competition for revenue, jobs and peopl…
Re-Imagining Streetlight Infrastructure as a Digital Urban Platform
Urban infrastructures have traditionally been mono-functional: water, sewage, and electricity are notable examples. Embedded with digital technologies, urban infrastructures have the potential to communicate with one another and become multi-functional platforms that integrate data gathering and actuation cycles. In this paper, we focus on public lighting infrastructures. Despite the technological development of lights, including LED technology, …
Spatial Design and Placemaking: Learning From Video Games
Spatial design and placemaking are fundamental to create a vibrant urban life, whereas video games are designed primarily for temporary amusement. However, they both share the same essence of creating large-scale artificial environments for human interaction as their fundamental value. Video game developers have been successfully using spatial design tools to create virtual environments to engage players and build narratives, understanding, and a…
Defaults in bank loans to SMEs during the financial crisis
Informal institutions and path dependence in urban planning: The case of Curitiba, Brazil
A process is recognized as collaborative when it demonstrates the involvement of multiple stakeholders who are mobilized to interact and negotiate horizontally in order to achieve common objectives. Although efforts can be made to make a process collaborative, a governance process is situated in particular histories and geographies, and collectively shared cultures, norms, and behaviors can help or hinder the emergence of inclusive democratic pra…
Exploring the effect of air pollution on social activity in China using geotagged social media check-in data
Home-work carpooling for social mixing
Geography (35 works) · Computer Science (28 works) · Political science (22 works) · Engineering (19 works) · Business (16 works) · Economics (16 works) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Art (12 works) · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (11 works)