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HYPOTHESIS AND THEORY article

Front. Built Environ.
Sec. Urban Science
Volume 10 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fbuil.2024.1501853
This article is part of the Research Topic Extended Mind for the Design of Human Environment View all 10 articles

BEHAVIORAL CITY

Provisionally accepted
Riccardo Viale Riccardo Viale *
  • University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

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    Behavioral City is a new concept that aims to integrate the behavioural approach of city policy making and the behavioural approach of urban planning.Behavioral Urbanism (BU) and its related area of study, behavioural architecture (Clovis, 1977), is an interdisciplinary field focused on the interaction between humans and the built environment, studying the effects of social, cognitive and emotional factors in understanding the spatial behaviour of individuals.Behavioral Public Policy (BPP) is an approach to public policy (Thaler and Sunstein, 2008; Oliver, 2017; Viale, 2018Viale, , 2022;;Viale & Macchi, 2021) that uses the tools of cognitive science and behavioural economics to identify how to change citizen behaviour towards individual and collective well-being goals.

    Keywords: behavioral public policy, behavioral urbanism, Embodied Cognition, nudge, urban planning

    Received: 25 Sep 2024; Accepted: 09 Dec 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Viale. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Riccardo Viale, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

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