Active mobility in historical centres: towards an accessible and competitive city

Gargiulo, Carmela; Sgambati, Sabrina

doi:10.1016/j.trpro.2021.12.071

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“…Soft mobility is influencing the reshaping of urban waterfronts by helping to establish new patterns of social and economic activity, increasing the quality and attractiveness of urban areas, especially in the redevelopment of historic centers [16]. Its link to healthy cities translates into the development of promenades and pedestrian zones as tourist attractors and healthy environments in both historic centers and urban waterfronts [17,18], and even in the reuse of disused railway lines for future pedestrian and cycle paths [18].…”

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Relating Spatial Quality of Public Transportation and the Most Visited Museums: Revisiting Sustainable Mobility of Waterfronts and Historic Centers in International Cruise Destinations

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Museums are main tourist resources for independent cruise passengers in cultural cruise destinations. However, their influence on cruise destinations is scarcely analyzed. The aim of this paper was to focus on two questions: What distribution of museums facilitates a sustainable mobility of cruise tourists in balance with urban needs? And which factors affect the potential use of both means of sustainable travel—soft mobility and public transport—at cruise destinations? The network topological features of main museums were analyzed to compare similar features among tourism destinations. A topological study based on the model of the three urban fabrics was related to the objective quality of PT. This allowed for a greater walkability or potential use of PT to be estimated. The results allowed for a diverse sample of cultural tourism port cities with cruise activity to be classified in three centralized levels and two decentralized ones. Results indicated that centralized networks are more prone to cruise tourists, while decentralized networks are more related to main cultural destinations. Finally, the discussion section analysed recommendations and measures to improve sustainable mobility and the planning of new museums. The results of this paper will be of interest to cultural and transport managers at these types of destinations.

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Relating Spatial Quality of Public Transportation and the Most Visited Museums: Revisiting Sustainable Mobility of Waterfronts and Historic Centers in International Cruise Destinations

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“…It has been defined as the ability of a city to attract and retain investment, resources, people and skills over time (Martin and Simmie, 2008; Pike et al , 2016; Ni et al , 2019; Carpentieri, 2020), becoming, over the past decades, a topic of intense debate and renewed interest in the study of urban development and place management (Camagni, 1999; Kresl and Ietri, 2014; Esmaeilpoorarabi et al , 2016; Camagni et al , 2017; Blakely et al , 2019; Ni et al , 2021). On the one hand, beyond urban economic growth, contemporary approaches to urban competitiveness see it as closely related to a city’s ability to provide high levels of quality of life, social inclusion, equitable access to goods and services, image distinctiveness and place-based economic development (Carvalho et al , 2017; McCann, 2004; Balsas, 2020; Gargiulo and Sgambati, 2022; Sun and Yang, 2022) and hence a close theoretical and empirical connection emerged between urban competitiveness and place management studies (Kavaratzis and Ashworth, 2008; Halme, 2017; Jawahar and Muhammed M.K., 2022). On the other hand, it has been argued that urban competitiveness has variegated forms and should therefore be studied in context (Gargiulo and Papa, 2021; Malecki, 2002; Sgambati et al , 2022), both in relation to wider geographical scales and taking into consideration intra-metropolitan settings (Shen, 2007; Bruneckiene et al , 2012).…”

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Benchmarking urban competitiveness for economic recovery: an application to Porto and Lisbon

Sgambati,

Carvalho

2023

JPMD

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Purpose This paper aims to investigate the competitive potential of different classes of municipalities within larger metropolitan areas, considering three dimensions of place competitiveness, associated to contemporary economic recovery agendas: the “dual transition” (green and digital) and socio-economic resilience. Design/methodology/approach The proposed methodology is divided in two stages, the first aiming at developing a new Index of Urban Competitiveness, based on three key dimensions of place development, by using principal component analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis; the second intends to identify municipalities’ main competitive assets, throughout the examination of the existing links between the overall competitiveness index and intra-metropolitan place conditions in each dimension. This methodology is applied to the metropolitan areas of Porto and Lisbon. Findings The analysis shows a weak link between population size and urban competitiveness, suggesting that economic recovery investments primarily targeting larger municipalities will not necessarily lead to greater metropolitan competitive advantages. On the contrary, taking into consideration place-based interventions for different “clubs” of municipalities would more likely contribute to enhance competitive performance and valorise territorial assets. Furthermore, while the relationship between competitiveness and environmental performance appears to be non-linear, digitalization and economic and social resilience prove to be key for urban competitive potential. Originality/value By drawing on contemporary notions of urban competitiveness, the work proposes a revised method to evaluate competitiveness, latent qualities and intrinsic features of places, constituting an initial step to conceive suitable metropolitan development and investment strategies for economic recovery.

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“…Numerous studies have shown that active mobility measures improve citizens' and city users' opportunities, as well as the perceived safety and attractiveness of historic city centers (Gargiulo & Sgambati, 2022). Green space and neighborhood walkability are important components of a healthy and sustainable city (Hu et al, 2022).…”

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Scenarios for Mobility Improvement Based on Individual Socioeconomic Factors

Abdullah

Sipos

2023

UOD

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This research investigated various factors related to different mobility improvements based on individual socioeconomic variables. In this study, two sustainable mobility scenarios have been suggested to be implemented in the Central Business District (CBD) area, in which the traffic situation is severely congested. These new mobility improvements are vehicle-free zones and congestion pricing. The two options have been studied and investigated using the binary decision tree method. The main aim of the study is to identify which mobility options are preferred by different groups of people in the city. This will reveal public opinion about the future change in mobility in the city. With the help of the Python programming language and the idea of machine-learning represented by the Decision Tree method, several trials were carried out to get the desired and accurate outcome from the public participation. The study findings showed that the "age" and "gender" variables are significant decision-making factors, whereas the number of trips and mode of transport have no effect on the choice set

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Active mobility in historical centres: towards an accessible and competitive city

Cited by 11 publications

References 9 publications

Relating Spatial Quality of Public Transportation and the Most Visited Museums: Revisiting Sustainable Mobility of Waterfronts and Historic Centers in International Cruise Destinations

Relating Spatial Quality of Public Transportation and the Most Visited Museums: Revisiting Sustainable Mobility of Waterfronts and Historic Centers in International Cruise Destinations

Benchmarking urban competitiveness for economic recovery: an application to Porto and Lisbon

Scenarios for Mobility Improvement Based on Individual Socioeconomic Factors

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