Smart City Governance and Children’s Rights: Perspectives and Findings from Literature on Natural Elements Influencing Children’s Activities Within Public Spaces

Garau, Chiara; Annunziata, Alfonso; Vale, David

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-24311-1_11

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“…Primarily, functional affordances are related to specific site-specific features: hence, the functional affordances of walking, running, cycling, and playing ball are related to the presence of flat, void, relatively smooth surfaces. Likewise, the affordances of hiding, prospect, and sitting in are associated with the availability of enclosed spaces, hence, a space bounded on three sides or covered by a ceiling of height not superior than 2.50 m. Finally, rigid features include non-movable features (including trees, retaining walls, benches, and stairs) that afford sitting-on, jumping-on/over/down-from, running around, hiding behind, or building on [14,17,19,37].…”

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Supporting Children’s Independent Activities in Smart and Playable Public Places

Garau

Annunziata

2020

Sustainability

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The global process of urbanization, and the modification of social interaction determined by the pandemic crisis, poses the issue of the place of vulnerable users and, in particular, children, within the contemporary city. This research aimed to elaborate a theoretical and methodological framework, based on the concepts of affordance and capability, for analyzing the potential of public spaces to enable and support children’s independent activities. This potential, or meaningful usefulness, is expressed by the Index of Meaningful Usefulness of public Urban Spaces (IUIS). The latter is calculated via the tool ‘Opportunities for Children in Urban Spaces’ (OCUS). This methodology is applied to the analysis of significant public spaces within the historic center of the city of Iglesias in Sardinia, Italy. The results reveal adequate usefulness of the selected spaces, while underlining criticalities related to intrinsic spatial and physical attributes. The application to the case study confirms the validity of the theoretical and methodological framework embodied in the OCUS tool for supporting urban design and planning by orienting place-shaping processes towards the acknowledgement of children’s needs.

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Supporting Children’s Independent Activities in Smart and Playable Public Places

Garau

Annunziata

2020

Sustainability

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“…Moura et al [ 24 ] added the further dimensions of commitment and coexistence. This 7C’s layout is then adapted by Garau et al [ 18 , 25 ], to structure a methodological framework for the analysis of built-environment factors conducive to children’s independent outdoor activities. Despite the relevance of walkability-related methodological frameworks for supporting decision-making processes, significant limits emerge from the existing literature.…”

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A Literature Review on Walkability and its Theoretical Framework. Emerging Perspectives for Research Developments

Annunziata

Garau

2020

Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2020

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Urbanization identifies the contemporary city as the crucible of human condition. This tendency elicits the issue of the ways in which the built environment affects human behaviour. In particular, walking emerges as a central topic. Walking, in fact, is conceptualized as a vector for engaging with the world, and as a conduit to physical activity, social contact and optional practices. Consequently, a vast body of literature exists, related to the concept of walkability. The latter can be defined as the built environment potential to affect people’s propensity to walk to different destinations and for different purposes. This study, through a comprehensive literature review investigates four concepts: capability; affordance; configuration and Urban ethics. These concepts embody four central dimensions of the research on walkability: arguments for investigating walkability; conceptualization of person-environment transactions; methodologies and ethical implications. The aim of this study, thus, is to individuate the theoretical framework for a precise understanding of the impact of the built environment on human behaviour and to underline perspectives for the further development of the research on walkability.

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“…In addition, biodiversity as KPI for habitats supporting function, linkage network, which means being part of a bigger scale ecological network, is critical to delivering high-quality GI for sustainability. Hence, biodiversity is important for this neighbourhood scale case[60] [109].In addition, biodiversity and the linkage network are even more important for the bigger scale GI, which should be continue researched and discussed in the future study of bigger scale long-term GI planning for Liangnong case.The level of recreational and wellbeing improvements for all people, KPI D15, emphasize the landscape ecosystem services that ultimately improve health and wellbeing for all people. In recent years, health and wellbeing for all people dimension have attracted increasing concerns from academia and different stakeholders [60] [63] [90] [91].…”

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Green Infrastructure Practice and a Sustainability Key Performance Indicators Framework for Neighbourhood-Level Construction of Sponge City Programme

Sun¹,

Cheshmehzangi²,

Wang³

2020

JEP

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In recent years, the Sponge City program (SCP) of China, as a sustainable stormwater management approach, has been strengthened as a national strategic level program. The Green Infrastructure (GI), due to its multi-objective and multi-benefits, has been adopted as an important measure of this new nationwide initiative. However, there is a lack of a comprehensive quantitative evaluation system for neighbourhood scale SCP. Hence, in the process of GI plan optimization, selection of implementation methods to balance its multi-benefits has become one of the key obstacles in the practice of SCP. To support robust decision making on multi-objective GI planning and comprehensive assessment, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) has been used as a structural and systematic technique. In addition, a set of sustainability key performance indicators (KPIs) including requisite dimensions is the foundation for neighbourhood scale sustainability. Hence, AHP-based evaluation system including selection, weighting and ranking of the KPIs, is defined as a key performance indicator framework (KPIF), which is still in need for further development. Taking the GI planning for the Liangnong, Siming Lake sponge node restoration as an example, this paper develops KPIF with a comprehensive evaluation system for high-quality "Sponge Node" transitional construction. This KPIF consists of three basic criteria:

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Smart City Governance and Children’s Rights: Perspectives and Findings from Literature on Natural Elements Influencing Children’s Activities Within Public Spaces

Cited by 8 publications

References 37 publications

Supporting Children’s Independent Activities in Smart and Playable Public Places

Supporting Children’s Independent Activities in Smart and Playable Public Places

A Literature Review on Walkability and its Theoretical Framework. Emerging Perspectives for Research Developments

Green Infrastructure Practice and a Sustainability Key Performance Indicators Framework for Neighbourhood-Level Construction of Sponge City Programme

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