Urban quality in the city of the future: A bibliometric multicriteria assessment model

D’Alpaos, Chiara; Andreolli, Francesca

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106575

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“…To facilitate their application, Urban Sustainability Indicators (USIs) are used and classified according to different sustainable dimensions. The literature, studies, and practice have so far embraced the division of sustainability into three dimensions or pillars: economic, environmental or ecological, and social or governmental/ethical factors [9][10][11]17,[27][28][29][30][31]. These three pillars are so widely accepted that this taxonomy is also known as the ''Triple Bottom Line''.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards European Transitions: Indicators for the Development of Marginal Urban Regions

Canesi

Marella

2022

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Urban transitions and urban-scape have been heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and will likely be affected by the current Ukrainian-Russian conflict. These two major events have affected European urban regions and especially marginal regions. Indeed, these regions are mostly struggling with inequality, lack of optionality, interoperability, and resilience due to their energy dependency and digital asymmetries. The continuous demand for a green and digital transition to strengthen social and economic resilience sought and targeted by the European Community has driven the policy of recent years to new European Guidelines. Nevertheless, the digital transition will require sustainability targets in the urban context, changing economic, social, and ecological relationships and balances. In this context, faced with these new transitions, marginal urban regions must plan, design, build, and manage future urban planning choices in a new digital-hybrid space. Therefore, it is crucial to support these transitions with a multi-dimensional sustainability concept through economic, environmental, social, and digital measurements. Urban sustainability indicators (USIs) play an essential role in supporting urban choices and planning. The current study analyzes recent literature and European standards to verify if and how they have changed in embracing the European Policy Pillar under a new and different sustainability profile, which needs to include digital sustainability. As a matter of fact, even if the concept of digitization has been recognized as a pillar of ongoing transitions, the literature and even European indicators struggle to recognize it as a tangible and measurable indicator of sustainability. Seeking to bridge the gap between European requirements and urban practice, the aim of this study is to identify and suggest new key indicators of digitalization to enable the digital sustainability of urban planning to be measured. These indicators can be used to implement a new valuation tool capable of supporting marginal regions by promoting sustainable urban investments in this new hybrid space.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards European Transitions: Indicators for the Development of Marginal Urban Regions

Canesi

Marella

2022

Land

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“…Towards this end, Fig. 3 Three dimensions and four principles of urban resilience there is a perspective change in the conception, planning, and development of the built, infrastructural, operational, and functional forms of urban areas [61]. NBS have been identified as a promising approach to enhance urban resilience by providing flexible and adaptable solutions, based on the delivery of ecosystem services [43,60].…”

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confidence: 99%

Nature-Based Solutions for Flood Mitigation and Resilience in Urban Areas

Ferreira

Potočki

Kapović-Solomun

et al. 2021

The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry

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Urban areas face several environmental problems and risks related to water management, such as floods and degradation of water quality, enhancing population vulnerability and threatening urban sustainability. These problems are expected to be exacerbated with increasing urbanization and climate change, which leads to higher frequency and intensity of hydrometeorological extremes. Moving towards more flood resilient cities has proven a major challenge, particularly considering the high concentration of population and economic activities and, thus, high pressure on limited available space. Nature-based solutions (NBS) in urban areas favour stormwater retention, infiltration, and filtration, contributing to flood mitigation and enhancement of water quality. The effectiveness of different NBS on stormwater management, however, is influenced by design and placement aspects, but a network of connected NBS elements can improve flood mitigation and enhance urban resilience. Stronger evidence of the advantages of NBS, however, is still required to overcome the current challenges and barriers impairing their wider implementation in urban areas.

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“…Multi-dimensional sustainability assessment of cities is predominantly undertaken using a proliferation of indicator frameworks (Cohen, 2017;D'Alpaos and Andreolli, 2020;Huovila et al, 2019;Merino-Saum et al, 2020;Verma and Raghubanshi, 2018).…”

Section: Sustainability Measurement Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Benchmarking urban performance against absolute measures of sustainability – A review

Goodwin

Wiedmann

Chen

et al. 2021

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Urban quality in the city of the future: A bibliometric multicriteria assessment model

Cited by 21 publications

References 69 publications

Towards European Transitions: Indicators for the Development of Marginal Urban Regions

Towards European Transitions: Indicators for the Development of Marginal Urban Regions

Nature-Based Solutions for Flood Mitigation and Resilience in Urban Areas

Benchmarking urban performance against absolute measures of sustainability – A review

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