Publications

This page contains references to works published and under review by members of the GHOST team during their time working on the project. This list was last updated August 3, 2019.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles:

• Garau, C., Desogus, G., & Coni, M. (2019). Fostering and Planning a Smart Governance Strategy for Evaluating the Urban Polarities of the Sardinian Island (Italy). Sustainability, 11(18), 4962 doi: 10.3390/su11184962.
• Garau C., Annunziata, A., (2019). Smart City Governance and Children’s Agency: An Assessment of the Green Infrastructure Impact on Children’s Activities in Cagliari (Italy) with the Tool “Opportunities for Children in Urban Spaces (OCUS)”. Sustainability, 11(18), 4848; doi: 10.3390/su11184848.
• Moisio S and Rossi U (2019) “The start-up state: Governing urbanized capitalism”. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space (on-line first: DOI: 10.1177/0308518X19879168)
• Garau C., Annunziata, A., & Coni, M. (2018). A Methodological Framework for Assessing Practicability of the Urban Space: The Survey on Conditions of Practicable Environments (SCOPE) Procedure Applied in the Case Study of Cagliari (Italy). Sustainability, 10(11), 4189. doi: 10.3390/su10114189.
• Garau, C. & Pavan V. M. (2018). Evaluating Urban Quality: Indicators and Assessment Tools for Smart Sustainable Cities. Sustainability, 10(3), 575. doi:10.3390/su10030575
• Zamperlin, P., Garau, C. (2017), Smart region: analisi e rappresentazione della smartness delle città metropolitane. Bollettino dell’Associazione Italiana di Cartografia. vol. 161, pp. 59-71 ISSN 2282-572X, DOI: 10.13137/2282-572X/21828
• Pinna, F., Masala, F., & Garau, C. (2017). Urban Policies and Mobility Trends in Italian Smart Cities. Sustainability, 9(4), 494. DOI:10.3390/su9040494 .
• Garau, C., Zamperlin, P., & Balletto, G. (2016). Reconsidering the Geddesian Concepts of Community and Space through the Paradigm of Smart Cities. Sustainability, 8(10), 985. DOI:10.3390/su8100985.
• Garau, C., Masala, F., & Pinna, F. (2016). Cagliari and smart urban mobility: Analysis and comparison. Cities, 56, 35-46. DOI:10.1016/j.cities.2016.02.012.

Book Chapters:

• K. Mannaro, G. Baralla, C. Garau (2018). A Goal-Oriented Framework for Analysing And Modeling City Dashboards in Smart Cities. In A. Bisello, D. Vettorato, R. Stephens, P. Elisei (eds) “Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions 2017” Part of the series Green Energy and Technology (http://www.springer.com/series/8059 ISSN: 1865-3529), Springer International Publishing Switzerland
• C. Garau, G. Balletto, L. Mundula (2017), A Critical Reflection on Smart Governance in Italy: Definition and Challenges for a Sustainable Urban Regeneration. In A. Bisello, D. Vettorato, R. Stephens, P. Elisei (eds) “Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions” Part of the series Green Energy and Technology (http://www.springer.com/series/8059 ISSN: 1865-3529), Springer International Publishing Switzerland, pp 235-250. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-44899-2_14; ISBN: 978-3-319-44898-5 (Print) 978-3-319-44899-2 (Online)
• C. Garau, (2017), Emerging Technologies and Cultural Tourism: Opportunities for a Cultural Urban Tourism Research Agenda. In Nicola Bellini and Cecilia Pasquinelli (eds) Tourism in the City – Towards an Integrative Agenda on Urban Tourism. Springer International Publishing Switzerland: 67-80

Working Papers in National/International Conferences:

• Yamu, C., & van Nes, A. (2019). Fractal urban models and their potential for sustainable mobility: A spatio-syntactic analysis. In Proceedings of the 12th International Space Syntax Symposium (pp. 415.01–415.13). Beijing.
• Mistretta, P., Desogus, G., & Garau, C. (2019). Proposals on the agricultural land use in according to the features of the landscape: the case study of Sardinia (Italy). In C. Gargiulo & C. Zoppi (Eds.), Planning, nature and ecosystem services (pp. 345-355). Naples: FedOAPress. ISBN: 978-88-6887-054-6, doi: 10.6093/978-88- 6887-054.6.
• Annuziata, A., & Garau, C. (2019). Smart City Governance for Child-Friendly Cities. Impacts of Green and Blue Infrastructures on Children’s Independent Activities. In C. Gargiulo & C. Zoppi (Eds.), Planning, nature and ecosystem services (pp. 524-538). Naples: FedOAPress. ISBN: 978-88-6887-054-6, doi: 10.6093/978-88-6887-054.6
• Garau, C. & Melis, G. (2019). Walkability as a tool for place-based regeneration: the case study of Iglesiente region in Sardinia (Italy). In C. Gargiulo & C. Zoppi (Eds.), Planning, nature and ecosystem services (pp. 943-954). Naples: FedOAPress. ISBN: 978-88-6887-054-6, doi: 10.6093/978-88-6887-054.6.
• Garau C., Annunziata A., Vale D. (2019) Smart City Governance and Children’s Rights: Perspectives and Findings from Literature on Natural Elements Influencing Children’s Activities Within Public Spaces. In: Misra S. et al. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2019. ICCSA 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11624. Springer, Cham.
• Desogus G., Mistretta P., Garau C. (2019) Smart Islands: A Systematic Review on Urban Policies and Smart Governance. In: Misra S. et al. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2019. ICCSA 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11624. Springer, Cham.
• Pintus, S., Garau, C., & Mistretta, P. (2019). The Paths of History for Multicultural Tourism: a Smart Real World in the Metropolitan City of Cagliari (Italy). In Real Corp 2019-IS THIS THE REAL WORLD? Perfect Smart Cities vs. Real Emotional Cities (pp. 739-750).Eds M. SCHRENK, VV POPOVICH, P. ZEILE, P. ELISEI, C. BEYER, J. RYSER.
• Melis G., Zamperlin, P., De Guy P., & Garau, C. (2018). Il censimento dei beni culturali sul territorio regionale sardo. Innovazioni e potenzialità. In XXII Conferenza Nazionale ed EXPO 2018 ASITA (pp. 677-684). Federazione ASITA.
• Azzari, M., Garau, C., Nesi, P., Paolucci, M., & Zamperlin, P. (2018). Smart City Governance Strategies to Better Move Towards a Smart Urbanism. In International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (pp. 639-653). Springer, Cham.
• Annunziata, A., & Garau, C. (2018). Understanding Kid-Friendly Urban Space for a More Inclusive Smart City: The Case Study of Cagliari (Italy). In International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (pp. 589-605). Springer, Cham.
• Coni, M., Garau, C., & Pinna, F. (2018). How has Cagliari Changed Its Citizens in Smart Citizens? Exploring the Influence of ITS Technology on Urban Social Interactions. In International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (pp. 573-588). Springer, Cham.
• Yamu, C., & van Nes, A. (2017). An Integrated Modeling Approach Combining Multifractal Urban Planning with a Space Syntax Perspective. Urban Science, 2017(1). https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci1040037
• K. Mannaro, G. Baralla, S. Ibba, A. Pinna, C. Garau (2017). Towards a Smart Region: the Case Study of a Teledermatology Platform in Sardinian Region (Italy). In The 13th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications. 9- 11th October, 2017, Rome, Italy.
• Balletto, G., & Garau, C. (2017). Smart City Governance in the Geo-resources Planning Paradigm in the Metropolitan City of Cagliari (Italy). In International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (pp. 368-379). Springer, Cham.
• Zamperlin, P., Garau, C., Nesi P. & Paolucci M.,  A governance-centred approach to a smart city. Data collection and analysis of tourist behaviors in two Italian case studies. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers AAG 2017 – Boston, Massachusetts, April 5 – 9, 2017.
• P. Zamperlin, M. Azzari, P. Nesi, M. Paolucci, C. Garau. The role of the Km4city dashboard in urban policies: governance strategies for dynamic urban systems.  2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on “Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions” – SSPCR 2017 – EURAC Bolzen, March 22-24, 2017.
• K. Mannaro, G. Baralla, C. Garau. A Goal-Oriented Framework for Analysing And Modeling City Dashboards in Augmented Cities.  2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on “Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions” – SSPCR 2017 – EURAC Bolzen, March 22-24, 2017.
• C. Garau, G. Balletto , P. Zamperlin (2016). A Reflection on Smart Governance in the new Metropolitan City of Cagliari. In: INPUT 2016 “e-agorà/e-ἀγορά for the transition toward resilient communities”. p. 135-142, ISBN: 978-88-9052-964-1, Turin, 14th–15th September 2016
• G. Balletto, C. Berti, C. Garau, P. Zamperlin. Tra natura e artificio. Cartografia storica per lo studio delle trasformazioni del paesaggio di Molentargius. Conferenza Nazionale ASITA 2016 (federazione italiana delle Associazioni Scientifiche per le Informazioni Territoriali e Ambientali) Cagliari 8-10 novembre 2016
• G. Balletto, C. Garau, M. Pinna, P. Zamperlin, The mining path of Santa Barbara in the Sulcis Iglesiente in Sardinia (Italy) between memory and re-use. In the International Conference on Geotourism, Mining Tourism, Sustainable Development, and Environmental Protection, GEOTOUR 2016 (Florence, 18-20 October 2016)
• C. Garau, G. Balletto, P. Zamperlin, A Reflection on Smart Governance in the new Metropolitan City of Cagliari. In the 9th International Conference on Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning, Valentino Castle – Viale Mattioli 39, Turin (14th – 15th September 2016)
• L. Mundula, S. Auci, D. Vignani, Defining Smart Cities: a Relative and Dynamic Approach. In REAL CORP 2016 – Smart me up! How to become and how to stay a Smart City, and does this improve quality of life? (Hamburg, Germany 22-24 June 2016)
• L. Mundula, S. Auci, Smart Cities: a Policy Tool for City Efficiency? In REAL CORP 2016 – Smart me up! How to become and how to stay a Smart City, and does this improve quality of life? (Hamburg, Germany 22-24 June 2016)
• P. Zamperlin, C. Garau, “Smart region: analisi e rappresentazione della smartness delle città metropolitane”. In Convegno annuale dell’Associazione Italiana di Cartografia, San Benedetto del Tronto (11-13 May, 2016)
• C. Garau, “Challenges for Enhancing Governance Models and Building Smart Bridges between Urban-Rural Contexts”, under the session entitled “Building smart bridges. Enhancing governance models and synergies between urban-rural linkages through metabolic approaches”, Session organised at the Regional Studies Association Conference (Building Bridges: Cities and Regions in a Transnational World) by Chiara Garau, Luis Inostroza Graz, Austria (3rd April, 2016 – 6th April, 2016)