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- ItemAccesibilidad, vivienda y plusvalías: el efecto de nueva infraestructura de transporte público en contextos recientes de verticalización(Ril Editores, 2024) Vecchio, Giovanni; Fernández, Sergio; Vicuña Del Río, María Magdalena
- ItemEnabling Mobilities Planning Tools for People and Their Mobilities Preface(Springer, 2019) Pucci, Paola; Vecchio, Giovanni; CEDEUS (Chile)This book investigates how established transport planning tools can evolve to understand and plan for the ever-changing contemporary mobilities that influence the opportunities available to individuals. It discusses existing techniques, revised in the light of the growing interest in the social implications of transport planning decisions: these include analytical tools to interpret consolidated and emerging phenomena, as well as operational tools to tackle new and existing mobility demands and needs. The book then addresses the implications of everyday mobility for individuals and communities. The result of a continuous exchange between the two authors, it brings together the results of their various research projects. Despite referring to different objects and settings, the work presented is connected by an underlying interest in the impact that mobility has on people in an increasingly mobile world, and the need to include such concerns into mobility planning and policy.
- ItemInequalities in job-related accessibility: Testing an evaluative approach and its policy relevance in Buenos Aires(2019) Vecchio, Giovanni; Lanza, Giovanni; Bocchimuzzi, Lucia; Pucci, Paola; CEDEUS (Chile)Accessibility, as a requisite to guarantee the individual ability to participate in valued activities, has been receiving increasing yet scattered attention from diverse theoretical and operational approaches. These approaches focus on how individuals are able to engage in out-of-home activities, participate in social life as well as on their involvement in other activities that contribute to their overall well-being. The paper aims at further investigating such approaches, analysing forms of inequality in job-related mobilities while assuming that a person's accessibility depends on both contextual and individual factors. Taking the Buenos Aires metropolitan area as a suitable testbed, the paper offers an approach to identify the inequalities in job-related accessibility at the neighbourhood scale. The approach considers the relationship between the quality and supply of public transport, level of social exclusion and reachable employment opportunities. The research proposes a synthetic index of inequalities in access to job opportunities (IAO) to identify disadvantaged urban areas characterized by a confluence of problems related to socio-economic deprivations, low accessibility to employment as well as a low mobility and poor quality of transport supply. The approach has an explicit operational dimension and intends to contribute to outlining tailored measures to guarantee better job opportunities, as in the case of people living in areas experiencing sub-standard levels of accessibility to workplaces.
- ItemMemorias, ciudad y planificación: una exploración urbana de Santiago a cincuenta años del Golpe Militar(2023) Vecchio, Giovanni; Matus Madrid, ChristianSe presentan reflexiones y aprendizajes generados en una clase abierta realizada en el marco del curso de Exploraciones Urbanas, titulada “Memorias urbanas para el futuro: una exploración de Santiago en el contexto de los cincuenta años”. La clase constituye una práctica pensada para llegar a un público amplio, a través de una exploración urbana que tiene como objetivo recuperar la memoria de diferentes momentos de la historia del urbanismo y la planificación de Santiago. Estos momentos son rescatados en un contexto de reflexión que permite problematizar la ciudad actual reconociendo cómo se construye a partir de diferentes capas de sentido que se contraponen, producto de la disputa de diferentes actores y visiones de ciudad. Se abordan en el recorrido la memoria de las transformaciones que se han generado en los espacios de la ciudad, y cómo influyen en las formas que la vida ciudadana adquiere en el espacio urbano, teniendo consecuencias permanentes en las formas de comprender la vida en común.
- ItemSerious games and transport justice: Examining redistributive issues through classification and dictator games(2024) Vecchio, GiovanniIntroduction: Serious games can provide an important contribution to grasp how people perceivecertain social issues related to transport and what factors are more relevant for them. The paperexamines the use of serious games as tools to understand how citizens perceive possible inequalities related to urban mobility and what factors they consider relevant for (re)distributingresources among different social groups experiencing such inequalities.Methods: Two serious games, a classification game and a dictator game, are applied in Santiago deChile, a city characterised by significant inequalities that affect also transport. The games aretested in seven focus groups involving 33 participants, arranged according to their socioeconomicconditions. In the games, participants have to rank six fictional characters and distribute amongthem resources to finance their mobility needs.Results: Participants tend to privilege socioeconomic variables such as income, rather thanconsidering other significant individual features or the actual mobility needs of different characters. The resources are distributed focusing on the characters perceived as disadvantaged. Suchperception of mobility-related inequalities does not show significant differences between participants from different social backgrounds.Conclusions: Serious games can be helpful to anticipate how the general public may perceivecontroversial policy measures and to plan measures to avoid discontent, providing relevant elements to enhance the social acceptability of certain transport policy decisions. Their relevance issignificant in the face of pressing societal issues, also in relation to health, although theirimplementation can be quite time- and money-consuming.
- ItemWomen’s mobilities and perceived safety: urban form matters. Evidence from three peripheral districts in the city of Bogotá(Routledge, 2023) Pucci, Paola; Vecchio, Giovanni; Gallego Vega, Erika AndreaThe paper aims at investigating the interplay of urban form and women’s mobilities in three peripheral districts in the city of Bogotá. Integrating a morpho-functional analysis of the built environment with an ethnographic analysis focused on the walking practices of a sample of women, the paper highlights the main gendered spatial experiences and how the perceived safety acts as a mediator between built environment attributes and walking behaviours. The conclusion introduces two challenges: first, the need for new interpretative lenses, different from those of a man-centred perspective and able to interpret the women’s territoriality–considered as the spaces produced through their mobility practices; second, the possibility to use women’s mobilities experiences and their tactics of adaptation as a tool for more effective urban and mobility policies.