Publications by Gabriele Manoli

Author Correction: Barriers and opportunities for resilient and sustainable urban forests

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Urban heat in global cities and the role of nature-based solutions in mitigating future climate risks

Approximately eight billion people are living on Earth today with more than half (55%, similar to 4.2 billion) living in cities-a proportion predicted to increase to 70% (similar to 6.6. billion) by 2050. As the human population grows, urban residents will ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

A stochastic theory of urban metabolism

Andrea Rinaldo, Gabriele Manoli

A current tenet in the science of cities is the emergence of power-law relations between population size and a variety of urban indicators, echoing allometric scaling in living organisms akin to Kleiber’s law. However fascinating, existing scaling theories ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences2025

Meteorological Assessment of Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Energy Microgeneration Potentials Across Two Swiss Cities Located in Complex Terrain

Gabriele Manoli, Aldo Brandi

Wind energy is the most mature renewable energy technology; however, its exploitation in cities is often met with skepticism. Thanks to their ability to operate at low wind speed regardless of direction, vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) offer an attract ...

Wiley2025

Residential tree canopy configuration and mortality in 6 million Swiss adults: a longitudinal study

Gabriele Manoli

Background: Residential exposure to trees has been associated with reduced mortality risks. We hypothesise that in addition to tree canopy cover, tree canopy configuration also plays a role in exposure–mortality relationships. As there is limited evidence ...

2025

Environmental, neuropsychological, and physiological factors in urban outdoor thermal comfort assessments: a systematic review

Gabriele Manoli

Excessive heat and thermal discomfort are growing threats for urban dwellers, severely affecting health and well-being. The complex interplay of urban structures, microclimates, and the diverse psychophysiological responses of individuals contribute to the ...

2025

Urban Climate Through the Lens of Complex System Science

Gabriele Manoli

Two of the fields that have emerged in the science of cities are urban climatology, historically focused on local to metropolitan-scale meteorological processes, and urban complexity science, focusing on population growth and emergent scaling behaviours ac ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2025

Modeling the Effect of Trees on Energy Demand for Indoor Cooling and Dehumidification Across Cities and Climates

Gabriele Manoli

Increasing urban tree cover is a common strategy to lower urban temperatures and indirectly the building energy demand for air-conditioning (AC). However, urban vegetation leads to increasing humidity with potential negative effects on the AC dehumidificat ...

AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION2025

The angiogenic growth of cities

Gabriele Manoli, Sara Bonetti

Describing the space-time evolution of urban population is a fundamental challenge in the science of cities, yet a complete theoretical treatment of the underlying dynamics is still missing. Here, we first reconstruct the evolution of London (UK) over 180 ...

Royal Soc2024

Moving from features to functions: Bridging disciplinary understandings of urban environments to support healthy people and ecosystems

Gabriele Manoli

Contact with nature can contribute to health and wellbeing, but knowledge gaps persist regarding the environmental characteristics that promote these benefits. Understanding and maximising these benefits is particularly important in urban areas, where oppo ...

Elsevier BV2024