The performance evaluation of community facilities and services

Gerundo, Roberto; Graziuso, Gabriella

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“…However, in the last decades, the scientific community has been experimenting with new planning approaches that focus on facilities performance and their influence on people's quality of life and collective wellbeing [67,68]. As highlighted by Gerundo and Graziuso [23], community facilities must be designed specifically for each territorial reality and be open to the effective involvement of citizens in the planning, design, construction, and management of the services. In this framework, the acoustic environment could also become a feature that could influence the choices for the location and management of facilities.…”

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“…All these results demonstrate that the solution matrix and the overlay map facilitate the comprehension of the relationship between noise, community facilities, and territorial contexts, thus, becoming useful tools that can support the actions necessary for the reduction of noise exposure. In the planning phase, indeed, such information can support the location choices of new community facilities [23] and organize the urban spaces by localizing the functions that produce impacts and those that experience such pressures [69][70][71][72]. Through an operation of overlay maps, it has been possible to summarize the relationship between the noise density classes and functions (Figure 12), which led to the compilation of a simple solution matrix of interaction between noise and facilities (Table 2).…”

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“…These noise maps become essential to promote urban planning procedures according to sustainable development standards [21], as defined in the 11th Goal of the 2030 Agenda [22]. Since public and private community facilities in an urban area must be planned according to their economic, social, and environmental impacts, their location must be defined according to several criteria [23]. Among others, total noise pollution is a feature that must be considered [24]: for instance, some noise-emitting facilities need to be placed far away from sensitive buildings, such as hospitals and schools.…”

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Geo-Crowdsourced Sound Level Data in Support of the Community Facilities Planning. A Methodological Proposal

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To reduce environmental noise pollution and to safeguard people’s well-being, it is urgently necessary to move towards sustainable urban development and reconcile demographic and economic growth with the protection and restoration of the environment and the improvement of the quality of human lives. This challenge should be a concern to policymakers, who must issue regulations and define the appropriate actions for noise monitoring and management, and citizens, who must be sensitive to the problem and act accordingly. Starting from an analysis of several crowdsourcing noise data collection tools, this paper focuses on the definition of a methodology for data analysis and mapping. The sound sensing system, indeed, enables mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, to become a low-cost data collection for monitoring environmental noise. For this study, the “NoiseCapture” application developed in France by CNRS and IFSTTAR has been utilized. The measurements acquired in 2018 and 2019 at the Fisciano Campus at the University of Salerno were integrated with the kernel density estimation. This is a spatial analysis technique that allows for the elaboration of sound level density maps, defined spatially and temporally. These maps, overlaid on a campus facilities map, can become tools to support the appropriate mitigation actions.

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“…In Italy, where national legislation on urban regeneration and limitation of land consumption is still lacking, urban renewal programs, known as complex urban programs, have been widespread since the 1990s to fight degradation [18]. Then, the theme was overlooked in government actions.…”

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Construction of a Composite Vulnerability Index to Map Peripheralization Risk in Urban and Metropolitan Areas

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As cities and poverty continue to grow worldwide, both spatial and a-spatial peripheralization processes expose entire urban and metropolitan areas at risk of degradation, not just traditional peripheries. The main aim of this paper is to propose a methodology for peripheralization risk assessment, according to the general theory of territorial risk, in order to identify priority areas where mitigation actions should be envisaged through urban and territorial planning. Such an approach constitutes the novelty of the work. So, peripheralization risk is defined for the first time, depending on aggregated vulnerability and exposure. Based on a literature review, a set of vulnerability indicators structured in three dimensions is defined in order to construct the composite vulnerability index in the Italian geographical context. Due to the absence of well-established threshold values, an aggregation method based on fuzzy logic is used. The methodology was applied to a conurbation of 16 municipalities in Campania Region (Italy). Obtained results showed that areas most at risk can be both peripheral and central neighborhoods, but also entire municipalities, demonstrating how mitigation actions are needed at different planning levels. Since the necessary input data are ordinarily available in planning processes, the proposed methodology can be transferred to other geographical contexts.

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“…On an urban scale, the latter are urban planning instruments implementing the general municipal plan, aimed at countering the physical and functional degradation of urban neighbourhoods, also facing social degradation. To this end, these programs provide for a plurality of project actions and involve multiple subjects, which is why they are called complexes [1].…”

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Peripheralization Risk Mitigation: A Decision Support Model to Evaluate Urban Regeneration Programs Effectiveness

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The term peripheralization indicates a process that can generate social, physical, and environmental degradation in urban areas. In the light of the new urban geography and the socio-economic trends taking place globally, there is a risk that the typical decay of a peripheral condition may affect city in their entirety, regardless of spatial proximity to its centre. Then, regeneration interventions should be targeted primarily at areas with a significant peripheralization risk, understood as a combination of potential degradation factors. Consequently, the decision-makers’ choice of the best design alternative should be informed by the knowledge of pre-existing vulnerability levels, and oriented towards the solution that maximizes their reduction. This is possible when the planning of interventions in the most vulnerable areas, through Urban Regeneration Programs, is able to take into account the results of the project alternatives economic evaluation. Such an approach constitutes the main novelty of the study. So, the aim of the work is to provide a decision support model for the evaluation of urban regeneration interventions effectiveness in areas of high peripheralization risk. To this end, the contribution defines a set of mitigation indicators and the assessment of the most effective design alternative through analytic hierarchy process (AHP). The proposed model was applied to an area of Marcianise Municipality, in Campania Region (Italy).

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The performance evaluation of community facilities and services

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Geo-Crowdsourced Sound Level Data in Support of the Community Facilities Planning. A Methodological Proposal

Geo-Crowdsourced Sound Level Data in Support of the Community Facilities Planning. A Methodological Proposal

Construction of a Composite Vulnerability Index to Map Peripheralization Risk in Urban and Metropolitan Areas

Peripheralization Risk Mitigation: A Decision Support Model to Evaluate Urban Regeneration Programs Effectiveness

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