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Cicerchia, Annalisa

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“…Regarding the classification of the elements that comprise the built environment and which determine the short term liveability of an urban area, literature has failed to reach a consensus beyond three broad areas: economic, social and physical [26,27]. As for the aspects included in each, urban agglomeration and city-based processes may have a positive impact (city effect) or a negative one (urban overload) [28]. The concept of sustainable urban liveability posited in this article is based on the classic concept of urban liveability [15,16] applied to a long-term perspective.…”

Section: Sustainable Urban Liveability: Concept and Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The economic dimension of the built environment refers to the city as a center of economic activity, considering specific aspects related to individual urban conditions [29]. Literature in this area considers that the agglomeration of people has a positive impact on certain aspects such as consumption capacity [30][31][32], employment [30,33] and economic activity [28,30,34,35]. In contrast, cities can impact negatively on other aspects of liveability in this dimension, such as economic inequality [36,37], which tends to be higher than that experienced in other types of territory.…”

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Sustainable Urban Liveability: A Practical Proposal Based on a Composite Indicator

2018

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This article presents a proposal for a composite index to assess the degree of sustainable urban liveability. It makes two key contributions to this field of study. The first is a proposal for the concept of sustainable urban liveability that includes the need to meet a minimum number of environmental conditions in terms of resource consumption and the deterioration of the environment. The second contribution is the use of a non-compensatory aggregation technique in order to construct the composite index. This kind of aggregation technique does not allow trade-offs between partial indicators. In the particular context of sustainable urban liveability, it prevents poor performance by the natural environment indicators from being compensated by positive results in the remaining indicators. The proposed composite index for sustainable urban liveability is applied to the case of 58 Spanish cities. The results reveal significant differences in the degree of sustainable urban liveability for this group of cities, but more importantly, they highlight the potential of this proposal for urban management.

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Section: Sustainable Urban Liveability: Concept and Approachmentioning

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Sustainable Urban Liveability: A Practical Proposal Based on a Composite Indicator

2018

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“…A conjunção destes três fatores -mercados, tecnologias e recursos financeiros -levou os governos das principais potências ocidentais a enviar para a América do Sul, e para o Estreito de Magalhães em especial, expedições oficiais com o objetivo de elaborar novas e precisas cartas náuticas da região (CICERCHIA;O'MEAGHER, 2003). Britânicos (BRIDGES, 2007), franceses (GUILLON, 1986), espanhóis (MARTIN, 2010), russos (BRAUND, 2003) e estadunidenses (JUNQUEIRA, 2012) percorreram as costas e interiores do continente, descreveram seus recursos naturais, fauna e flora, populações e regimes de governo, contestaram antigas lendas e colaboraram na construção de imagens sobre a região (GERBI, 1996).…”

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O Estreito de Magalhães redescoberto: ciência, política e comércio nas expedições de exploração nas décadas de 1820 e 1830

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2014

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Este artigo discute o crescente interesse das potências ocidentais no Estreito de Magalhães, Patagônia e Terra do Fogo nas primeiras décadas do século XIX. São conectados os objetivos estratégicos dos governos aos comerciais de companhias de caça e comércio para a compreensão do financiamento de expedições oficiais de exploração e mapeamento da região. São analisados os relatos de dois comandantes britânicos a serviço da Marinha Real que percorreram aquela região e procuraram conciliar ciência e interesses pessoais na publicação de relatos de suas viagens, descrevendo descobertas, aventuras, a desconstrução de lendas e os tensos e conflituosos contatos com os indígenas locais. ABSTRACTThis article focuses on the growing interests of Western great powers on the Strait of Magellan, Patagonia and Tierra de Fuego during the first half of the 19 th century. Strategic government objectives are connected to those of commercial and hunting companies to comprehend the funding of official exploring and mapping expedition to these lands. It analyses two travel accounts of British commanders of the Royal Navy who travelled and described that region.

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“…Problems of measurement arise from the complex nature of this concept [25]. In regional studies, the increasing interest on this dimension of urban life basically depends on the fact that QOL may significantly affect local competitiveness, social cohesion, and environmental sustainability, shaping urban growth and settlement expansion [1,26,27]. According to Royuela et al [28], quality of life can play an important role in location decisions taken by households and businesses.…”

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Factors Underlying Life Quality in Urban Contexts: Evidence from an Industrial City (Arak, Iran)

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Cities play a vital role in local development providing a high education level, specialized jobs and advanced services. When assessing living conditions and wellbeing in cities, economic indicators alone are generally unable to evaluate the inherent complexity of the ‘quality of life’ issue in urban environments. With rapid urbanization, shortage of infrastructures and services emerged in metropolitan regions of developing countries, leading to disadvantaged settlements, urban poverty, lower citizens’ satisfaction, and an overall decline in life quality. Based on these premises, the present study illustrates a subjective investigation of life quality in an emerging economy such as Iran, focusing on Arak, the fourth largest industrial pole of the country. Based on a literature review on quality of life in industrial cities of emerging economies, subjective indicators of citizens’ satisfaction on living quality in Arak were identified and quantified using empirical results from a field survey. Results of our study show that the overall satisfaction for living quality in Arak is rather low, reaching the lowest rank in the issues of environmental sanitation and public transportation. Lack of investments in urban infrastructure justifies the low citizens’ perception of life quality in Arak city. The paper concludes outlining the urgent need of homogeneous and comparable macro- and micro-data on multiple aspects of quality of life at both city-level and metropolitan-level in emerging economies.

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Cited by 28 publications

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Sustainable Urban Liveability: A Practical Proposal Based on a Composite Indicator

Sustainable Urban Liveability: A Practical Proposal Based on a Composite Indicator

O Estreito de Magalhães redescoberto: ciência, política e comércio nas expedições de exploração nas décadas de 1820 e 1830

Factors Underlying Life Quality in Urban Contexts: Evidence from an Industrial City (Arak, Iran)

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