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The Emotional and Chromatic Layers of Urban Smells
Daniele Quercia, Luca Maria Aiello, Rossano Schifanella
People are able to detect up to 1 trillion odors. Yet, city planning is concerned only with a few bad odors, mainly because odors are currently captured only through complaints mad…
Chatty Maps: Constructing sound maps of urban areas from social media data
Luca Maria Aiello, Rossano Schifanella, Daniele Quercia +1
Urban sound has a huge influence over how we perceive places. Yet, city planning is concerned mainly with noise, simply because annoying sounds come to the attention of city offici…
The Death and Life of Great Italian Cities: A Mobile Phone Data Perspective
Marco De Nadai, Jacopo Staiano, Roberto Larcher +3
The Death and Life of Great American Cities was written in 1961 and is now one of the most influential book in city planning. In it, Jane Jacobs proposed four conditions that promo…