Description
This volume introduces an innovative tool for the development of sustainable cities and the promotion of the quality of life of city inhabitants. It presents a decision-support system to orient public administrations in identifying development scenarios for sustainable urban and territorial transformations. The authors have split the volume into five parts, which respectively describe the theoretical basis of the book, the policies in question and indicators that influence them, the decision-support system that connects indicators to policies, the case study of Ancona, Italy, and potential future directions for this work.
This volume is based on transdisciplinary research completed in May 2016 that involved about 40 researchers at The University of Camerino, Italy and other European universities. With purchase of this book, readers will also have access to Electronic Supplementary Material that contains a database with groups of indicators of assessment of urban quality of life and a toolkit containing the data processing system and management information system used in the book’s case study.
Table of Contents
Part I - Quality of the Landscape, Quality of Life, Urban Sustainability. Chapter 1. State of the art on the search for sustainability and quality of life in cities.- Chapter 2. The landscape as a “complex indicator” of urban sustainability and quality of life of city inhabitants.- Chapter 3. Use of decision-support systems in defining scenarios for sustainable, shared urban development.- Part II – Urban Policies and Quality of Life. Chapter 4. Urban policies for urban sustainability and quality of life of the city.- Chapter 5. Selection of indicators of urban sustainability and quality of life of city inhabitants.- Chapter 6. Contributions.- Part III - A Decision-Support System. Chapter 7. The DSS and its possible applications.- Chapter 8. For a new urban governance.- Chapter 9. Communication and dissemination of the model.- Part IV – Application to the Adriatic City. Chapter 10. The ideal Adriadic city.- Chapter 11. Application of the Tool and initial results.- Chapter 12. Criteria for activating the Forum to interpret and assess the landscape and the quality of life.- Chapter 13. Criteria for building the possible development scenarios presented to policymakers.- Part V – New research frontiers.
