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Title: | Benchmarking City Layouts—A Methodological Approach and an Accessibility Comparison between a Real City and the Garden City | Authors: | Monteiro, João Sousa, Nuno Natividade-Jesus, Eduardo Coutinho-Rodrigues, João |
Keywords: | urban layout; accessibility; garden city; GIS; city model benchmarking | Issue Date: | 2022 | Serial title, monograph or event: | Sustainability (Switzerland) | Volume: | 14 | Issue: | 9 | Abstract: | This article presents a comparative accessibility study between a real city and its redraft as a Garden City. The benchmarking methodology involves defining and evaluating a location-based accessibility indicator in a GIS environment for the city of Coimbra, Portugal, and for the same city laid out as a Garden City, with the same number of inhabitants, jobs, and similar number of urban facilities. The results are derived as maps and weighted average distances per inhabitant to the facilities and jobs, and show that, for the Garden City, average distances drop to around 500 m for urban facilities and 1500 m for the combination of facilities and jobs, making much of the city accessible by walking and practically the whole of it accessible by cycling, with positive impact on transport sustainability and accessibility equity. The methodology can be extended to other benchmarking indicators and city layouts, and the quantitative results it yields make a valuable contribution to the debate on the ideal layout of cities. Moreover, it gives directions on how to improve real cities to address current and future sustainability concerns. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/103505 | ISSN: | 2071-1050 | DOI: | 10.3390/su14095029 | Rights: | openAccess |
Appears in Collections: | I&D INESCC - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais FCTUC Eng.Civil - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
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