Combining multi-criteria and space syntax analysis to assess a pedestrian network: the case of Oporto

Jabbari, Mona; Fonseca, Fernando Pereira da; Ramos, Rui A. R.

doi:10.1080/13574809.2017.1343087

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“…These tools-including the Survey on Conditions of Practicable Environments (SCOPE), the Public Open Space Desktop Audit Tool (POSDAT), the Pedestrian Environment Data Scan (PEDS), the Environmental Assessment of Public Recreation Spaces (EAPRS), and the Procedure and the Quality Index of Parks for Youth (QUINPY)) [45][46][47][48]-incorporate qualitative and quantitative indicators and sub-indicators and aggregate data collected from direct on-site observation and/or secondary data retrieved from informative territorial services, internet-based street-level imagery services (Google Street View), and territorial imagery services (Google Maps, Google Earth, Bing Maps). The combination of primary and secondary data, and of qualitative and quantitative indicators, is also central to multicriteria evaluation models [49][50][51][52]. These tools integrate spatial information related to macro-scale built environment factors and evaluation of micro-scale site-specific urban design features, reflecting a conceptualization of a place's inclusivity or usefulness as the product of both inherent and endowed contextual properties.…”

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Smart City Governance and Children’s Agency: An Assessment of the Green Infrastructure Impact on Children’s Activities in Cagliari (Italy) with the Tool “Opportunities for Children in Urban Spaces (OCUS)”

Garau

Annunziata

2019

Sustainability

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The increases in urbanization, pollution, resource depletion, and climate change underline the need for urban planning policies that incorporate blue–green infrastructure (BGI) and ecosystem services. This paper proposes a framework for assessing BGI’s effect on children’s outdoor activities. This effect, called meaningful usefulness, is a central issue due to the influence of experiences with nature on children’s development and the global trend of concentration of children in urban areas. Based on the concept of affordance, the methodology formalizes meaningful usefulness in terms of an index of usefulness of individual settings (IUIS) and a synthetic index of usefulness of BGI in a specific area (ISGI). These are determined via an audit protocol, Opportunities for Children in Urban Spaces (OCUS), which incorporates a set of indicators measuring micro-scale properties of individual places and contextual macro-scale factors. The methodology is applied to BGI components in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, which was selected for its superior density of urban green spaces. The application of the OCUS tool confirms its usefulness for investigating functional affordances incorporated into the trans-scalar structures of BGIs. The analytic protocol further contributes to the implementation of urban planning strategies within the smart city paradigm.

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Smart City Governance and Children’s Agency: An Assessment of the Green Infrastructure Impact on Children’s Activities in Cagliari (Italy) with the Tool “Opportunities for Children in Urban Spaces (OCUS)”

Garau

Annunziata

2019

Sustainability

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“…This quality of accessibility compels us to consider urban design factors, microscale spatial features of the built environment, land-use patterns, and social factors as variables that influence individual practices and attitudes. Based on these theoretical premises, the analytical methods proposed by Garau and Pavan [22], Jabbari et al [38], Blecic et al [20,21], Moura et al [17], Talavera-Garcia and Soria-Lara [39], and Ewing and Handy [40,41] are thus regarded as valid contributions for selecting criteria and structuring the methodology for assessing practicability.…”

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A Methodological Framework for Assessing Practicability of the Urban Space: The Survey on Conditions of Practicable Environments (SCOPE) Procedure Applied in the Case Study of Cagliari (Italy)

2018

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Children's independent activities within public spaces emerge as a fundamental condition for their development considered in the context of their needs: socialization, movement, autonomy, and enrichment of their creative, imaginative, and cognitive potential. The promotion of their independence represents a relevant issue for implementing the smart city paradigm. This paradigm calls for a methodological framework where the urban fabric's performance is evaluated via comprehensive analytic protocols. The proposed study presents an audit tool for evaluating the quality of urban spaces in terms of their practicability by children: the Survey on Conditions of Practicable Environments (SCOPE). The practicability of this research is establishing the quality of urban spaces' usability, and it is expressed in terms of compositional, configurational, functional, and social factors of the built environment organized within a framework articulated in seven key dimensions (connectivity, convenience, comfort, commitment, conviviality, conspicuousness, and coexistence). The introduction of the concept of practicability and of indicators incorporating the demand for a children-sensitive perspective in the project of public spaces determine the novelty of the SCOPE procedure. This methodology was applied to an area in Central Cagliari, Italy, to evaluate the usability of public spaces. The results reveal that the proposed methodology is relevant for implementing the smart city paradigm because it addresses children's autonomy and their rights to the city by selecting and defining indicators to clarify and assess conditions of the built environment conducive to children's autonomy and independent social activities.Sustainability 2018, 10, 4189 2 of 23 functionality of the city [5,6], but also a condition for inclusion and equality to consolidate sustainable communities [7]. Practicability can be defined as the potential of the public urban space to promote children's independence by accommodating their independent social activities [6][7][8][9][10][11]. The concept of practicability incorporates not only the demand for a children-sensitive perspective in public spaces [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] but also the conceptualization of the inclusivity of public spaces as their potential to accommodate and enable children's independent mobility, and informal and structured, individual and collective ludic activities [6][7][8][10][11][12].The issue of children's engagement in independent outdoor activities can be referred to the more general problem of a contemporary city's walkability. Walkability can be defined as the extent to which the urban environment is usable for pedestrians [17]. Concerns about walkability relate to a recognition of walking as a fundamental factor for promoting more sustainable, active, and inclusive communities [18,19]. The concept of practicability diverges from the notion of walkability because it emphasizes the importance of exploration and appropriation of public spaces through play as a conditi...

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“…References related to pedestrian activities, design networks and pedestrian accessibility had allowed to identify different factors, dimensions and criteria to improve pedestrian mobility. The main and more relevant ones are related to connectivity, urban function of the routes, route attributes, convenience, and the coexistence between pedestrian and other modes of transport (Blečić, Cecchini, Congiu, Fancello, & Trunfio, 2015;Jabbari et al, 2017;Moura et al, 2017). Some recent works involve stakeholders and decision-makers in the planning process of pedestrian mobility.…”

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“…Walking can be considered the basis of a sustainable city, providing social, environmental and economic benefits (Moura, Cambra, & Gonçalves, 2017). Encouraging people to walk have mainly concentrated on making it easy and attractive (Jabbari, Fonseca, & Ramos, 2017). Thus, the design of pedestrian routes and areas involves consideration of different technical, economic, environmental, and social factors (Sayyadi & Awasthi, 2013).…”

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“…Thus, the design of pedestrian routes and areas involves consideration of different technical, economic, environmental, and social factors (Sayyadi & Awasthi, 2013). Understanding the factors that influence walkability and pedestrians' perceptions enables planners to build more walkable and liveable cities (Jabbari et al, 2017). Built environment factors that would likely affect walking also differ according to other factors, such as pedestrian characteristics, walking purpose, urban context and other environmental and cultural aspects (Moura et al, 2017).…”

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An Anp Model to Improve Pedestrian Accessibility in the City Center of Cartagena De Indias (Colombia)

García‐Melón¹,

González-Urango²,

Pira³

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Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process

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Improving pedestrian accessibility is a multifaceted problem. The design of accessible routes involves consideration of different stakeholders and factors. In this paper, a multicriteria decision analysis approach is presented based on Analytic Network Process (ANP) to help planning and design of pedestrian routes. A group of different stakeholders comprised of representatives of local administration, city transportation officials, commercials, associations, NGO's and city residents or users has been formed to select the criteria for designing pedestrian routes in the city center of Cartagena de Indias (Colombia). Some key stakeholders will be involved as experts to evaluate selected criteria trough ANP process. An index which measures the importance of each criterion in designing pedestrian routes will be obtained. Finally, starting from the results, some relevant streets will be selected and evaluated and redesigned. Starting from a literature review, , criteria related to connectivity, urban function, route attributes, convenience, and coexistence have been first selected as the more relevant ones.

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Combining multi-criteria and space syntax analysis to assess a pedestrian network: the case of Oporto

Cited by 41 publications

References 57 publications

Smart City Governance and Children’s Agency: An Assessment of the Green Infrastructure Impact on Children’s Activities in Cagliari (Italy) with the Tool “Opportunities for Children in Urban Spaces (OCUS)”

Smart City Governance and Children’s Agency: An Assessment of the Green Infrastructure Impact on Children’s Activities in Cagliari (Italy) with the Tool “Opportunities for Children in Urban Spaces (OCUS)”

A Methodological Framework for Assessing Practicability of the Urban Space: The Survey on Conditions of Practicable Environments (SCOPE) Procedure Applied in the Case Study of Cagliari (Italy)

An Anp Model to Improve Pedestrian Accessibility in the City Center of Cartagena De Indias (Colombia)

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