Biosecurity issues in rural areas including the rural-urban fringe have been on the national government agenda for decades. However, these issues are rarely linked to the land use pattern and the planning processes that frame the peri-urbanisation process. International, national, regional and localised stressors leading to each new biosecurity threat seem to constantly overshadow the ongoing t...

Abstract Urban morphology is a body of knowledge concerned with the physical form cities. It includes several theories, concepts, and methodologies. One these fringe-belt. Fringe-belts are intimately related to process urban development: in city, each period growth followed by phase slow or no growth, which land occupied specific uses, mostly institutional, industrial, open spaces. The concept ...

Urban Sprawl, and the fragmentation of territory associated with it, are factors degrading peri-urban areas in many European cities. The aim this research is to investigate role that Green Infrastructure (GI) Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) can have redefining areas, relating urban rural landscapes. case study focuses on Southern Milan periphery, at rural-urban transition fringe; transformation pr...

We propose a decision-aiding evaluation procedure (i) for classifying road crossings based on their impact on walkability and, subsequently, (ii) for prioritising street improvements, in urban-rural fringe areas. In the peripheral urban-rural fringes, pedestrian mobility is usually less developed and people generally depend more on cars for their everyday chores. Partly this is inevitable given...