Capability-wise walkability evaluation as an indicator of urban peripherality

Blečić, Ivan; Cecchini, Arnaldo; Congiu, Tanja; Fancello, Giovanna; Talu, Valentina; Trunfio, Giuseppe A.

doi:10.1177/2399808320908294

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“…A walkable environment contributes to enhance people well-being: it makes easier to access and use urban services, activities and public space of everyday life; it supports people to be independent, to interact and to lead physically active lifestyle. For these reasons we consider walkability an enabling urban condition which can support effectively people in the expression of their human capabilities (Blečić, Cecchini, et al, 2020;Blečić et al, 2013) .…”

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Mapping walkability. A subjective value theory approach

Fancello

Congiu

Tsoukiàs

2020

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

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The analysis of urban walkability has been extensively explored in the last decades. Despite this growing attention, there is a lack of studies attentive on how citizens' values, individual abilities and urban environment favour or hinder the propensity to walk. Hence, there is a need to explore how preferences and values of citizens vary in space in order to design walkability policies able to improve the capability set of citizens. In this perspective, the design of spatial decision tools aimed to planning public policies for the development of walkable cities needs further investigation. We propose a Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) method aimed to elaborate walkability decision maps for different groups of citizens that reflect their capability to walk in the urban environment. We tested the method in the city of Alghero (Italy). First, we analysed walkability under a normative model named CAWS; then we made a survey with 358 participants in order to study the driving values that influence their choice to walk and finalised to build an evaluation model attentive to individual differences. Cluster analysis was employed to group citizens into 11 groups based on their sociodemographic characteristics and preferences on spatial criteria of walkability. Finally, by integrating the GIS with the MCDA we built a set of decision maps representative of the walkability of the different groups of citizens. Results highlight the importance of citizens' values for policy design, allow the interpersonal comparison among individuals and group preferences and give new suggestions for the formulation of walkability oriented urban policies. Moreover, the results confirm the usability of the general method as a decision support tool supporting the design of urban policies.

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Mapping walkability. A subjective value theory approach

Fancello

Congiu

Tsoukiàs

2020

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

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“…The 15-min city and the Superblocks aim at a more human-centered mobility that will help cities to recover from the pandemic while reducing dangerous pollution. Other authors focused on different ways of measuring walkability, both considering urban centers and peripheries, as well as including the citizens' participation in the planning process [19,65,66].…”

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Walkable City and Military Enclaves: Analysis and Decision-Making Approach to Support the Proximity Connection in Urban Regeneration

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Accessibility and urban walkability are the cornerstones of urban policies for the contemporary city, which needs to be oriented towards sustainable development principles and models. Such aims are included in the objectives of the 2030 Agenda, as well as in the ambitious objectives of the ‘European Green Deal’. These concepts are closely linked to the paradigm of a sustainable city—livable, healthy and inclusive—based on a system of high-quality public spaces and on a network of services and infrastructures, both tangible and intangible, capable of strengthening and building new social, economic and environmental relationships. It is necessary to recognize potential opportunities for connection and permeability in consolidated urban environments. These are very often fragmented and are characterized by enclaves of very different kinds. Ghettoes and gated communities, old industrial plants and military installations and facilities, to cite a few, represent examples of cases where closures on urban fabrics are realized, impeding full walkability and accessibility. Within such a framework, the present research is aimed at focusing on a particular set of enclaves, such as those represented by the military sites being reconfigured to civilian use, a phenomenon that characterizes many urban areas in the world; in Europe; and in Italy, in particular, given the recent history and the Cold War infrastructure heritage. In such a sense, the city of Cagliari (Sardinia Island, Italy) represents an interesting case study as it is characterized by the presence of a series of military complexes; real ‘enclaves’ influencing the proximity connections; and, more generally, walkability. Building on previous research and analysis of policies and projects aimed at reintroducing, even partially, this military asset into civilian life (Green Barracks Project (GBP)-2019), this paper proposes and applies a methodology to evaluate the effects of urban regeneration on walkability in a flexible network logic, oriented to the ‘15 min city’ model or, more generally, to the renewed, inclusive, safe “city of proximity”, resilient and sustainable.

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“…Taking into consideration the conceptual categorizations proposed in the literature, we grouped features of urban environment into four families of indicators: (1) efficiency and comfort; (2) safety security and certainty; (3) pleasantness; and (4) attractiveness. These we believe summarized the environmental aspects at different scales that most influence the susceptibility of urban space to be walked, and, what is more important, to enhance the potential of the built environment to enable the majority of people to effectively "use" the city and its opportunities starting from the (differential) individual abilities of people [77,78]. The defined families of factors are not mutually exclusive as they gather together distinct but complementary attributes that contribute to the assessment of pedestrian accessibility.…”

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“…The understanding of the needs, attitudes, and preference of different categories of people becomes fundamental for the design of walkable urban settings (endowed) with physical and functional attributes that enable persons with different characteristics and abilities to freely choose and exercise their functionings [13]. Improving pedestrian accessibility level and quality represents one step towards this goal [77,78].…”

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Planning and Design Support Tools for Walkability: A Guide for Urban Analysts

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We present a survey of operational methods for walkability analysis and evaluation, which we hold show promise as decision-support tools for sustainability-oriented planning and urban design. An initial overview of the literature revealed a subdivision of walkability studies into three main lines of research: transport and land use, urban health, and livable cities. A further selection of articles from the Scopus and Web of Science databases focused on scientific papers that deal with walkability evaluation methods and their suitability as planning and decision-support tools. This led to the definition of a taxonomy to systematize and compare the methods with regard to factors of walkability, scale of analysis, attention on profiling, aggregation methods, spatialization and sources of data used for calibration and validation. The proposed systematization aspires to offer to non-specialist but competent urban analysts a guide and an orienteering, to help them integrate walkability analysis and evaluation into their research and practice.

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Capability-wise walkability evaluation as an indicator of urban peripherality

Cited by 10 publications

References 33 publications

Mapping walkability. A subjective value theory approach

Mapping walkability. A subjective value theory approach

Walkable City and Military Enclaves: Analysis and Decision-Making Approach to Support the Proximity Connection in Urban Regeneration

Planning and Design Support Tools for Walkability: A Guide for Urban Analysts

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