Proximal Cities: Does Walkability Drive Informal Settlements?
| Autor: | Francesco Rossini, Antonio M. Rinaldi, Valerio Cutini, Valerio Di Pinto |
|---|---|
| Přispěvatelé: | Cutini, V., Di Pinto, V., Rinaldi, A. M., Rossini, F. |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
lcsh:TJ807-830
Geography Planning and Development Population lcsh:Renewable energy sources 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography 02 engineering and technology Management Monitoring Policy and Law Space (commercial competition) Configurational analysi Order (exchange) Human settlement Regional science qualitative analysis education lcsh:Environmental sciences Qualitative analysi walkability lcsh:GE1-350 education.field_of_study Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment lcsh:Environmental effects of industries and plants Informal settlement 05 social sciences 021107 urban & regional planning informal settlements configurational analysis lcsh:TD194-195 Quantitative analysis (finance) Walkability Configurational analysis Business Settlement (litigation) 050703 geography |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 3, p 756 (2020) Sustainability Volume 12 Issue 3 |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su12030756 |
| Popis: | The uncontrolled growth of urban areas worldwide is pushing a substantial part of the urban population to the fringes of society, confining them to the unsecure and unhygienic settlements that we call &ldquo informal.&rdquo These settlements lack in intelligible layout and essential services and infrastructures, thus representing a challenging issue for policy makers and urban designers in the development of renewal programs and strategies. In order to support the facing of these issues through an on-site upgrade approach, this paper argues that walkability deeply affects the functioning of informal settlements, so as to propose that they can be identified as &ldquo proximal cities,&rdquo which expresses the idea that the vital space in informal settlements has soft boundaries and follows a fuzzy logic. A quantitative analysis, based on a configurational approach, and a qualitative analysis, focused on the morphologic features of the settlements, have been implemented. A comparison of the results shows that this approach is suitable to provide a deeper knowledge on informal settlement and informal society under the assumption of their strict mutual connection. A primal definition of proximal cities, suitable for describing some properties of autopoietic urban systems, emerges from the evidence-based relationships between their spatial and social features. In this respect, a case study has been proposed and discussed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|