Quality of Life in Urban Landscapes: In Search of a Decision Support System (The Urban Book Series)

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 State of the Art on the Search for Sustainability and Quality of Life in Cities (Roberta Cocci Grifoni, Rosalba D’Onofrio, Massimo Sargolini)....Pages 3-9 The Landscape as a “Complex Indicator” of Urban Sustainability and Quality of Life of City Inhabitants (Roberta Cocci Grifoni, Rosalba D’Onofrio, Massimo Sargolini)....Pages 11-17 Use of Decision-Support Systems in Defining Scenarios for Sustainable, Shared Urban Development (Roberta Cocci Grifoni, Rosalba D’Onofrio, Massimo Sargolini)....Pages 19-24 Front Matter ....Pages 25-25 Urban Policies for Urban Sustainability and Quality of Life of the City (Rosalba D’Onofrio, Massimo Sargolini, Michele Talia)....Pages 27-36 Selection of Indicators of Urban Sustainability and Quality of Life of City Inhabitants (Rosalba D’Onofrio, Massimo Sargolini, Michele Talia)....Pages 37-99 Front Matter ....Pages 101-101 Distinctive and Pleasant – Transformative Concepts in Landscape Ecology: Social Ecological Green Spaces (SEGS) (Marco Cervellini, Giandiego Campetella, Stefano Chelli, Roberto Canullo)....Pages 103-107 Distinctive and Pleasant – Urban morphology and urban identity: landscape perception (Chiara Camaioni)....Pages 109-116 Efficient and Nice – Dimensions, Characteristics, and Forms for an Inclusive, Responsible City (Maria Federica Ottone)....Pages 117-123 Efficient and Nice – Urban Metabolism and Outdoor Comfort (Monica Rossi)....Pages 125-130 Efficient and Nice – Land Consumption and Urban Decay (Ilenia Pierantoni)....Pages 131-139 Efficient and Nice – Urban Sustainability and Quality of Life: The Socioeconomic Perspective (Massimo Battaglia, Nora Annesi)....Pages 141-149 Efficient and Nice – Urban Accessibility and Public Transport (Andrea Renzi, Piersebastiano Ferranti)....Pages 151-158 Efficient and Nice – Social Capital and Services of Public Interest: The Quest for a Metric for Urban Quality of Life (Luca Cetara)....Pages 159-169 Clean and Healthy – Protected Areas, Biodiversity, and Management of Natural Resources (Paolo Perna, Roberta Caprodossi)....Pages 171-182 Clean and Healthy – Built Environments and Health: Quality of Life in an Urban Context (Iolanda Grappasonni)....Pages 183-193 Clean and Healthy – Natural Hazards and Resources (Carlo Bisci, Bernardino Gentili, Alessio Acciarri, Gino Cantalamessa, Giorgio Di Pancrazio, Massimiliano Fazzini et al.)....Pages 195-204 Clean and Healthy – Waste Collection and Waste Management (Barbara Fenni)....Pages 205-210 Front Matter ....Pages 211-211 The DSS and Its Possible Applications (Rosalba D’Onofrio, Massimo Sargolini, Michele Talia)....Pages 213-219 The QLandQLife Tool (Mariano Pierantozzi, Roberta Cocci Grifoni)....Pages 221-225 The QLandQLife Forum (Rosalba D’Onofrio, Massimo Sargolini)....Pages 227-232 For a New Urban Governance (Rosalba D’Onofrio, Massimo Sargolini, Michele Talia)....Pages 233-236 Communication and Dissemination of the Model (Marta Magagnini)....Pages 237-242 Front Matter ....Pages 243-243 The Ideal Adriatic City (Chiara Camaioni, Lucilla Di Prospero, Rosalba D’Onofrio, Ilenia Pierantoni, Andrea Renzi, Massimo Sargolini)....Pages 245-281 Application of the Tool and Criteria for Activating the Forum (Roberta Cocci Grifoni, Rosalba D’Onofrio, Massimo Sargolini)....Pages 283-300 Interaction with Decision-Makers (Rosalba D’Onofrio, Massimo Sargolini)....Pages 301-307 Front Matter ....Pages 309-309 Urban Agriculture for Urban Regeneration in the Sustainable City (François Mancebo)....Pages 311-317 Healthy Cities and Urban Planning: The QLandQLife Model as Input for Experimentation (Elio Trusiani)....Pages 319-326 Urban-Planning Tactics and Strategies in New Decision-Making Processes (Michele Talia)....Pages 327-334 Participatory Methods for Identifying Stakeholder Perspectives on Urban Landscape Quality (Matthijs Hisschemöller)....Pages 335-340 Heritage as an Active Space and Spatial Resource (Mladen Obad Šćitaroci)....Pages 341-348 Urbanscape Emanation vs. Types of Landscape (Bojana Bojanić)....Pages 349-355 The Combined Use of Environmental and Experiential Simulations to Design and Evaluate Urban Transformations (Barbara E. A. Piga)....Pages 357-364 Strategies of Landscape Restoration and City Naturalizing (Francesco Domenico Moccia, Gilda Berruti)....Pages 365-378 Territorial and Urban Recovery Design: In Search of a Contribution to Sustainable Planning (Vincenzo Riso)....Pages 379-384 Quality of Governance and Quality of Life (Massimo Sargolini)....Pages 385-394 Back Matter ....Pages 395-399