Editorial preface. A bibliometric review of evolution and knowledge gap of urban inequalities

Keywords: Urban inequalities, Bibliometric review, Spatial planning, Urban planning

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Author Biographies

Benjamin Buettner, Technical University of Munich

He is the deputy head of the Chair of Urban Structure and Transport Planning and is the head of the Research Group on Accessibility Planning at Technical University of Munich (TUM). Currently works in the fields of accessibility planning and decision and policy making. Urban transitions, tactical urbanism and street experiments are the foci of his professional skills. Since 2019 he is the head of the EIT Urban Mobility “Doctoral Training Network” which includes 100 interdisciplinary PhD students all over Europe. Since 2020 he is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Urban Mobility.

Floriana Zucaro, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Naples Federico II

She is an engineer, Ph.D. in Hydraulic, Transport and Territorial Systems Engineering at the Department of Civil, Building and Environmental Engineering (DICEA) – University of Naples Federico II. She received a M.Sc. in Environmental and Territorial Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II with a specialization in management of urban and territorial transformations. Since 2021 she is an assistant professor at DICEA and she has currently been involved in three main research projects: she is a component of the research team of the ERASMUS + Key Action2: Project “Development of a Master Program in the Management of Industrial Entrepreneurship for Transition Countries” (MIETC); she is a component of the research team of the Centro Nazionale per la mobilità sostenibile – Spoke 8 – MaaS & Innovative services (CUP E63C22000930007) within the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan supported by funding from the Next Generation EU programme; she is head of the TeMALab research team, with Gerardo Carpentieri, of the project STEP UP – Walkability for Women in Milan financed by Fondazione Cariplo.  Her research interests are in the field of land use planning and energy saving integration in urban policies and sustainable mobility.

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2024-06-21
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BuettnerB., & ZucaroF. (2024). Editorial preface. A bibliometric review of evolution and knowledge gap of urban inequalities. TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, (2), 3-18. https://doi.org/10.6093/1970-9870/11003
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