City center revitalization in Portugal

Balsas, Carlos J. L.

doi:10.1016/s0264-2751(99)00049-9

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“…From this perspective some notions register an increasing importance. The first one, identifies analogies and the common challenges between medium cities: it is the notion of Smart Medium-sized city, well expressed by some scientific researches since the 2000's ( [1], [2], [12]). The second one aims at considering Medium-sized cities as the core of a wider identity system, and it demonstrates the inefficiency of Smart action plans based on the administrative boundaries of the single municipality.…”

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Medium-Sized Smart Cities: A Smart Vision for Urban Centralities and Buildings. From the European Case History, to a Proposal for the City of Parma, Italy

Bruzzone

2021

Organizing Smart Buildings and Cities

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Smart city arouses the image of metropolis or even megacities, and many Smart city models aim at enhancing the performances of big cities. Yet in Europe, it is necessary to deal with a fact: most people dwelling cities, live in Medium-sized cities. These cities therefore create an important critical mass, both because they are very numerous, and because they suffered the greatest criticalities in terms of environmental pollution, life quality, mobility and also building sustainability. Beginning from the scientific literature and the rankings of Medium-sized cities, as well as the concept of Functional Urban Area, this research deepens medium city as a territorial issue, with an urban attractive core, and a wider complex landscape. The boundaries definition of a medium city, and the analysis of its geomorphological, infrastructural and functional criticalities, may be the key for a new interpretation of Smart strategies for their sustainable development. The research output is the proposal of an innovative tool, addressed to leaders and planners of the Smart Medium-sized city. This tool may allow a critical reading of the city, by georeferencing material and immaterial data about the city and its functional area, crossing open data and morphological characters in an interactive dashboard. After the case history of European Mediumsized cities, the research focuses on the role of Parma, Italian Medium-sized city, with a proposal about a future smart development, for consolidating results obtained during 2020, with the cultural leadership of the Italian Cultural Capital award.

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Medium-Sized Smart Cities: A Smart Vision for Urban Centralities and Buildings. From the European Case History, to a Proposal for the City of Parma, Italy

Bruzzone

2021

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“…---4 STUDY CASE -BAIXA OF COIMBRA, PORTUGAL In order to illustrate the applicability of the management indicator, the city of Coimbra, Portugal was chosen as a focal point. Coimbra is a medium-size city in Portugal, with a population of more than 100,000 inhabitants [9] and a territorial extension over 3,000 ha. It is located in the coastal region of Portugal, halfway between Lisbon and Oporto [10] (Fig.…”

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‘The management indicator’ from the point of view of an urban assessment

Nieto¹,

Silva²,

Murtinho³

et al. 2017

Int. J. SDP

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The 'Management indicator' is one of the less prioritized indicators when we analyze the existing urban sustainable assessment methods. Nevertheless, and according to the opinion of some experts, this indicator should be one of the main as it deals with the involvement of local entities (communities, agencies and government) working together to improve the public services and quality of life of the inhabitants of a specific area. It recognizes the uniqueness of each place, ensuring that the community facilities are properly maintained and are appropriate to the existing population density (PD) of the area, so that a sense of ownership and responsibility is promoted. The main contribution of this paper is to give a complete panorama of the analysis and evaluation for the management indicator, as well as emphasize the importance of this indicator when we are making a sustainable assessment for urban areas or when we are trying to rehabilitate existing neighborhoods.

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“…In order to illustrate the applicability of this conceptual model, Coimbra was chosen as a focal point. Coimbra is a medium-size city in Portugal, with a population of more than 100,000 inhabitants (Lopes 2000) and a territorial extension over 3,000 ha. It is located in the coastal region of Portugal, halfway between Lisbon and Oporto (Fig.…”

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Conceptual Model for the Sustainable Rehabilitation of Medium-Size Inner Cities in Europe: Coimbra, Portugal

Nieto

Silva

Murtinho

et al. 2016

J. Urban Plann. Dev.

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This paper analyzes the causes of the depopulation of urban centers in European medium-size cities, and presents a conceptual model to address this problem, considering that integrated rehabilitation is necessary to attract new inhabitants, based on the retrofitting of buildings from a sustainable point of view, by developing the concept of a new model of city management based in the generation of subsectors in each city quarter and erecting multipurpose infrastructure buildings that provide the sustainable requirements of that population sector. To illustrate its application to European medium-size cities, the model is applied to the city center of Coimbra, Portugal, including a critical characterization of the current situation, identifying the sociocultural and functional requirements for these neighborhoods, highlighting the feasibility of the conceptual model.

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City center revitalization in Portugal

Cited by 41 publications

References 4 publications

Medium-Sized Smart Cities: A Smart Vision for Urban Centralities and Buildings. From the European Case History, to a Proposal for the City of Parma, Italy

Medium-Sized Smart Cities: A Smart Vision for Urban Centralities and Buildings. From the European Case History, to a Proposal for the City of Parma, Italy

‘The management indicator’ from the point of view of an urban assessment

Conceptual Model for the Sustainable Rehabilitation of Medium-Size Inner Cities in Europe: Coimbra, Portugal

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