Quality of Life in Urban Landscapes In Search of a Decision Support System /

• Main Authors: Grifoni, Roberta Cocci (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), D'Onofrio, Rosalba (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Sargolini, Massimo (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: The Urban Book Series,
• Subjects: Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Sustainable development.; Quality of life.; Computer mathematics.; Urban ecology (Biology).; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Sustainable Development.; Quality of Life Research.; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis.; Urban Ecology.

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 transfor...

Table of Contents:

• Part I - Quality of the Landscape, Quality of Life, Urban Sustainability. Chapter 1. State of the art on the search for sustainability and quality of life in cities
• Chapter 2. The landscape as a "complex indicator" of urban sustainability and quality of life of city inhabitants
• Chapter 3. Use of decision-support systems in defining scenarios for sustainable, shared urban development
• Part II - Urban Policies and Quality of Life. Chapter 4. Urban policies for urban sustainability and quality of life of the city
• Chapter 5. Selection of indicators of urban sustainability and quality of life of city inhabitants
• Chapter 6. Contributions
• Part III - A Decision-Support System. Chapter 7. The DSS and its possible applications
• Chapter 8. For a new urban governance
• Chapter 9. Communication and dissemination of the model
• Part IV - Application to the Adriatic City. Chapter 10. The ideal Adriadic city
• Chapter 11. Application of the Tool and initial results
• Chapter 12. Criteria for activating the Forum to interpret and assess the landscape and the quality of life
• Chapter 13. Criteria for building the possible development scenarios presented to policymakers
• Part V - New research frontiers.