Elisabetta Vitale Brovarone
Biographic Data
| ID | 4628380 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elisabetta Vitale Brovarone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elisabetta Vitale |
| FAMILY NAME | Brovarone |
| SIGNATURE | BROVARONE E V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Politecnico di Torino |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9030-9188 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Spatial and social justice on and beyond the streets
Faced with global crises, many cities are experimenting with new urban models to reduce car use, promoting more sustainable mobility and reclaiming public space and urban greenery. However, while certainly an improvement, these experiments also risk contributing to gentrification, increasing the cost of living and of housing in the areas concerned. This article considers the case study of Barcelona, and analyses how the municipal government, betw…
Repopulating peripheral rural areas? The approach of the Italian National Strategy for Inner Areas
Massive depopulation, ageing, low density, and distance from the centres where services and opportunities are located are typical features of peripheral rural areas, that challenge their liveability and potential for development, raising social and spatial justice issues at the same time. Launched in 2014, the Italian National Strategy for Inner Areas (SNAI) aims to reverse the decline loops these areas have been trapped into, through the adoptio…
Planning competencies and transformative pedagogy for sustainable development
Understood as “a means by which society decides collectively what urban [and rural] change should be like and tries to achieve that vision by a mix of means.”, there is broad consensus that planning should fully incorporate the notion of sustainable development. Planners have a critical role in envisioning and driving local transitions to sustainable development. This requires transforming what planners learn and how they learn in higher educatio…
Governing post-pandemic territories
Claims towards a paradigm shift in how societies are organised in space, formulated in the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, faded away. Nevertheless, the pandemic contributed to ongoing changes in how people settle, live and work, calling for a shift from traditional territorial governance models to softer approaches able to tackle non-standard geographies. This commentary reflects on trends boosted by the pandemic and discusses functional a…
The conflictual governance of street experiments, between austerity and post-politics
Car dependency greatly contributes to the climate crisis and the corrosion of public space. In response, cities are introducing pedestrianisation, cycle lanes or tactical urban interventions aimed at repurposing streets for other road users. Framed as ‘experiments’, these reallocations of street space disrupt traditional transport planning procedures, often with promising results in promoting active travel. They are also associated with deep conf…
Whose is this street? Actors and conflicts in the governance of pedestrianisation processes
Accessibility and mobility in peripheral areas
Rural and peripheral areas, however, defined, suffer from accessibility and mobility problems that challenge their liveability and potential for development. To cope with these challenges, it is necessary to acknowledge and address the spatial, societal, cultural and economic components of accessibility, with comprehensive action involving actors from various sectors at different scales. The Italian National Strategy for Inner Areas, aimed to rev…
Design as if bus stops mattered
Rethinking urbanisation after Covid-19
Tackling the Pandemic at the Metropolitan Level. Looking for the Right Scale to Plan More Resilient Territorial Development Futures
Planning the transition to autonomous driving
La strategia nazionale per le aree interne
Implementing TOD around suburban and rural stations
Transit Oriented Development (TOD) is an effective way to integrate land use and transport in pursuit of the goal of sustainable development. Most of the literature on TOD is devoted to station areas in urban contexts; even when TOD is considered with a regional approach, suburban and rural stations are poorly investigated. Analysing a case study, this paper explores spatial potentialities and constraints for TOD in suburban and rural contexts. T…
Teaching Land Use – Transport Interactions in Italy
Integrating land use and transport planning is seen as a key approach to pursue more sustainable mobility patterns, but it requires an interdisciplinary pedagogy for those who will be working in these fields: architects, spatial planners and engineers. This paper systematically examines – using syllabi analysis and teacher questionnaires – around 200 academic degree programmes offered by Italian universities, to verify how and to what extent this…
Promoting TOD through regional planning. A comparative analysis of two European approaches
Promoting TOD through regional planning. A comparative analysis of two European approaches
The conflictual governance of street experiments, between austerity and post-politics
Car dependency greatly contributes to the climate crisis and the corrosion of public space. In response, cities are introducing pedestrianisation, cycle lanes or tactical urban interventions aimed at repurposing streets for other road users. Framed as ‘experiments’, these reallocations of street space disrupt traditional transport planning procedures, often with promising results in promoting active travel. They are also associated with deep conf…
Whose is this street? Actors and conflicts in the governance of pedestrianisation processes
Planning the transition to autonomous driving
Promoting TOD through regional planning. A comparative analysis of two European approaches
Teaching Land Use – Transport Interactions in Italy
Integrating land use and transport planning is seen as a key approach to pursue more sustainable mobility patterns, but it requires an interdisciplinary pedagogy for those who will be working in these fields: architects, spatial planners and engineers. This paper systematically examines – using syllabi analysis and teacher questionnaires – around 200 academic degree programmes offered by Italian universities, to verify how and to what extent this…
La strategia nazionale per le aree interne
Implementing TOD around suburban and rural stations
Transit Oriented Development (TOD) is an effective way to integrate land use and transport in pursuit of the goal of sustainable development. Most of the literature on TOD is devoted to station areas in urban contexts; even when TOD is considered with a regional approach, suburban and rural stations are poorly investigated. Analysing a case study, this paper explores spatial potentialities and constraints for TOD in suburban and rural contexts. T…
Design as if bus stops mattered
Rethinking urbanisation after Covid-19
Tackling the Pandemic at the Metropolitan Level. Looking for the Right Scale to Plan More Resilient Territorial Development Futures
Planning the transition to autonomous driving
Accessibility and mobility in peripheral areas
Rural and peripheral areas, however, defined, suffer from accessibility and mobility problems that challenge their liveability and potential for development. To cope with these challenges, it is necessary to acknowledge and address the spatial, societal, cultural and economic components of accessibility, with comprehensive action involving actors from various sectors at different scales. The Italian National Strategy for Inner Areas, aimed to rev…
Whose is this street? Actors and conflicts in the governance of pedestrianisation processes
Governing post-pandemic territories
Claims towards a paradigm shift in how societies are organised in space, formulated in the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, faded away. Nevertheless, the pandemic contributed to ongoing changes in how people settle, live and work, calling for a shift from traditional territorial governance models to softer approaches able to tackle non-standard geographies. This commentary reflects on trends boosted by the pandemic and discusses functional a…
The conflictual governance of street experiments, between austerity and post-politics
Car dependency greatly contributes to the climate crisis and the corrosion of public space. In response, cities are introducing pedestrianisation, cycle lanes or tactical urban interventions aimed at repurposing streets for other road users. Framed as ‘experiments’, these reallocations of street space disrupt traditional transport planning procedures, often with promising results in promoting active travel. They are also associated with deep conf…
Planning competencies and transformative pedagogy for sustainable development
Understood as “a means by which society decides collectively what urban [and rural] change should be like and tries to achieve that vision by a mix of means.”, there is broad consensus that planning should fully incorporate the notion of sustainable development. Planners have a critical role in envisioning and driving local transitions to sustainable development. This requires transforming what planners learn and how they learn in higher educatio…
Spatial and social justice on and beyond the streets
Faced with global crises, many cities are experimenting with new urban models to reduce car use, promoting more sustainable mobility and reclaiming public space and urban greenery. However, while certainly an improvement, these experiments also risk contributing to gentrification, increasing the cost of living and of housing in the areas concerned. This article considers the case study of Barcelona, and analyses how the municipal government, betw…
Repopulating peripheral rural areas? The approach of the Italian National Strategy for Inner Areas
Massive depopulation, ageing, low density, and distance from the centres where services and opportunities are located are typical features of peripheral rural areas, that challenge their liveability and potential for development, raising social and spatial justice issues at the same time. Launched in 2014, the Italian National Strategy for Inner Areas (SNAI) aims to reverse the decline loops these areas have been trapped into, through the adoptio…
Political science (9 works) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (8 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Business (4 works) · Civil engineering (4 works) · Corporate governance (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Environmental planning (4 works)