A city is ultimately measured by how it’s lived in, every day. This pillar connects Santiago Caprio’s academic work — urbanism, urban quality of life, research — with the everyday: the neighborhood, the sidewalk, the public space a family actually uses.
Much of this outlook is condensed in the IQOL, the Urban Quality of Life Index, one of 12 international publications with its own ISBN (Maggioli Editore) that are part of his academic output, alongside Environmental and Urban Economics.
Family-friendly urbanism isn’t a slogan: it’s designing cities — streets, plazas, amenities, density — with an eye to how kids, families, and caregivers actually live in them. It’s the same design thinking as always, applied at the closest possible scale: everyday life.