[HTML][HTML] Are remote rural areas in Europe remarkable? Challenges and opportunities

CP Castillo, RR Barranco, R Curtale, M Kompil… - Journal of Rural …, 2024 - Elsevier
Remote rural areas are facing strong demographic and socioeconomic challenges as being
far from a city can limit social and economic interaction opportunities. This study analyses …

[HTML][HTML] Urban–rural continuum: an overview of their interactions and territorial disparities

CP Castillo, S van Heerden, R Barranco… - Regional Science Policy …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study provides a quantitative analisis of the interactions between urban and rural areas
and related territorial disparities in the European Union (EU). Relevant societal themes such …

Quality of life in the urban environment and primary health services for the elderly during the Covid-19 pandemic: An application to the city of Milan (Italy)

C Guida, G Carpentieri - Cities, 2021 - Elsevier
The outbreak of the Coronavirus during the first months of 2020 completely reshaped urban
lives because of the need to limit the spread of the disease and ensure essential services to …

Quantifying and visualizing the 15-minute walkable city concept across Europe: A multicriteria approach

A Bartzokas-Tsiompras, E Bakogiannis - Journal of Maps, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The disruptions associated with health and energy crisis have emphasized the need for
hyperlocal cities. However, in Europe, a tool to measure the efficiency of land use and …

[HTML][HTML] Improving rural accessibility: A multilayer approach

E Vitale Brovarone, G Cotella - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Rural territories are worse equipped than urban ones in terms of accessibility to services
and opportunities, due to their scattered development and peripheral character. Increasing …

Multimodal accessibility-based equity assessment of urban public facilities distribution

B Tahmasbi, MH Mansourianfar, H Haghshenas… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The equitable distribution of public facilities is one of the major concern of urban-planners.
To address the equity aspect of sustainable development, urban facilities should be not only …

Accessibility inequality across Europe: a comparison of 15-minute pedestrian accessibility in cities with 100,000 or more inhabitants

D Vale, AS Lopes - NPJ Urban Sustainability, 2023 - nature.com
Active accessibility is a paramount objective of current sustainable urban development
policies. Recently, the 15-minute city concept emphasized this framework by stressing …

Do the supply of and demand for rural public service facilities match? Assessment based on the perspective of rural residents

X Cui, L Ma, T Tao, W Zhang - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
The allocation of public service facilities is a game between social justice and a humanistic
care value orientation. Under the background of China's rural revitalisation strategy, the …

The impact of traffic on equality of urban healthcare service accessibility: A case study in Wuhan, China

Y **a, H Chen, C Zuo, N Zhang - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
Accessibility to healthcare services strongly correlates with residents' health. As one of the
objectives of sustainable cities, the social equality of access to healthcare plays a vital role …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying hotspots of transport disadvantage and car dependency in rural Ireland

P Carroll, R Benevenuto, B Caulfield - Transport policy, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper explores the concepts of car dependency and transport disadvantage and the
correlation between them in rural Ireland as a means of highlighting incidences of possible …