Using Open Data and Open Tools in Defining Strategies for the Enhancement of Basilicata Region

Carbone, Raffaella; Fortunato, Giovanni; Pace, Giovanna; Pastore, Emanuele; Pietragalla, Luciana; Postiglione, Lydia; Scorza, Francesco

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-95174-4_55

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“…On the OpenCoesione website, it is possible to download projects (projects.csv/metadata.xls) grouped both for each municipality and for the entire region of interest. The information that has been acquired for each project of the municipalities of Agri Valley [60][61][62][63] is as follows: public cost, payments made, the progress of the project, nature (type of operation), theme, program, and axis. On the POV website, on the other hand, local policy data are available, organized within annual reports on the activities carried out by all implementing actors.…”

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Comparing Impact Evaluation Evidence of EU and Local Development Policies with New Urban Agenda Themes: The Agri Valley Case in Basilicata (Italy)

Pontrandolfi

Dastoli

2021

Sustainability

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The European Union’s Cohesion Policy is the most important structural policy in terms of financial commitment, geographical size and time frame, aimed at redistributing wealth between regions and countries, to stimulate growth in areas whose development is lagging behind. The reach of the investments prompted the EU Commission to promote an impact evaluation of the European Structural Funds (SF); however, the impact evaluation of EU programs is almost neglected in the Italian regions. This paper is based on the results developed within the RI.P.R.O.VA.RE project and is aimed at defining an impact evaluation of EU SF and other regional funds, based on evidence derived from the analysis of a specific case study in the Agri Valley area (Basilicata, Italy). To develop the impact evaluation process, the euro amounts of all the individual policies organized according to the themes of the New Urban Agenda (NUA), the impact indicators and the trend for the municipalities are considered together, in order to obtain an overall trend for the entire case study area. An important result is achieved above all in the methodological approach to impact evaluation: the municipal territorial scale is taken into account; the maps illustrate the use of resources; regardless of the type of funding source since there is a comparison between the priority axes of the funds with the NUA issues; and indicators are developed with open data available at a national level. This experiment makes it possible to detect that, even in the face of significant investments, some substantial aspects that are part of the policy objectives remain unchanged or even worsen.

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Comparing Impact Evaluation Evidence of EU and Local Development Policies with New Urban Agenda Themes: The Agri Valley Case in Basilicata (Italy)

Pontrandolfi

Dastoli

2021

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“…To compute urban street network’s syntactic measures and capture “walkable” and “cyclable” centralities, we have set two threshold distances for the analysis: 1,500 m and 3,000 m. These values are compatible with walking and cycling respectively [ 38 ]. In our study, we have mapped schools (primary schools, elementary schools, middle schools, high schools) which are in the Potenza’s urban area [ 39 , 40 ]. They are “attraction points”, i.e.…”

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Hybrid Oriented Sustainable Urban Development: A Pattern of Low-Carbon Access to Schools in the City of Potenza

Fortunato

Scorza

Murgante

2020

Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2020

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This study analyzes urban street network of the city of Potenza in Basilicata region to provide input for a sustainable urban mobility-based strategy enabling students to reach schools through the use of low-carbon transport modes’ share. The analyses have been carried out by using Place Syntax Analysis in order to identify a network of paths which guarantees pedestrian and bicycle access to schools located in the urban area of Potenza. Within urban space morphology research, combining Space Syntax and GIS-methods, Place Syntax allows to perform analyses of the spatial configuration of streets taking into account both street network layout and the location of spatial opportunities. Urban form (in our analysis, in terms of configurational characteristics) and accessibility to destinations (schools in this study) are essential to increase the share of walking and bicycling as the preferred modes of people’s daily travel. The paper shows the potential integration between active transport modes and public transport in the city of Potenza. Ensuring an easy transition between walking, cycling and public transport (e.g. by designing a widespread and direct network of cycle-pedestrian paths to and from the stations) contributes to create a “Hybrid Oriented Sustainable Urban Development” towards low-carbon settlements characterized by a significant reduction in congestion, air pollution and carbon emissions.

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“…Other part can be understood as an assessment of deficit, or lack of minimum requirements for the provision of services and equipment in relation to the urban functions exercised by each territorial unit. Using open source data available online, reworked through GIS systems, has defined a map of the services of the territory related to the entire region (including over 17,000 instances) [ 13 ]. Ten macro-categories have been defined: trade, culture, education and training, sport and leisure, tourism, general services, public services, financial services, security (Fig.…”

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Polycentrism and Insularity Metrics for In-Land Areas

Curatella¹,

Scorza²

2020

Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2020

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The aim of polycentrism, as a policy, is to promote balanced territorial development between urban centres and its hinterland by creating functional integration. In this view, polycentric urban systems are a mean to achieve a more efficient and more sustainable territorial organization than single-centric systems and small dispersed settlements. At regional/local level, an operational objective could be to move from one or two dominant regional centres (polarization) to a network of small and medium-sized centres providing regional services. This process has to be finalized through strategic alliances between cities, particularly where critical mass is lacking, and rural partnerships urban exploring common potential and joint development projects. The idea is to deliver a territorial schema to organize the connection of cities, metropolitan regions and their hinterland through infrastructures and effective services supply distribution. The negative part of this schema represents the territorial insularity effect: it is the case of those in-land areas, considered as the extreme periphery of the polycentric structure, that are not connected, in facts, with any center belonging to the top-level hierarchy adopted in the model. The study for the identification of territorial structures in Basilicata was carried out through the analysis of various variables: the demographic structure, the infrastructure endowment and organizational models that condition the territorial accessibility. In Basilicata three levels of polycentric hierarchy have been identified, according to different levels of concentration of high and medium-level functions. The insularity effect had been mapped. The calculations reveal a large gap between the outermost and the innermost centres of the Region (referring to their geographical position).

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Using Open Data and Open Tools in Defining Strategies for the Enhancement of Basilicata Region

Cited by 11 publications

References 15 publications

Comparing Impact Evaluation Evidence of EU and Local Development Policies with New Urban Agenda Themes: The Agri Valley Case in Basilicata (Italy)

Comparing Impact Evaluation Evidence of EU and Local Development Policies with New Urban Agenda Themes: The Agri Valley Case in Basilicata (Italy)

Hybrid Oriented Sustainable Urban Development: A Pattern of Low-Carbon Access to Schools in the City of Potenza

Polycentrism and Insularity Metrics for In-Land Areas

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