Value and Quality in the Dialectics between Human and Urban Capital of the City Networks on the Land District Scale

Ludovica Nasca, Salvatore Giuffrida and Maria Rosa Trovato
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Ludovica Nasca: Department of Architecture Design and Urban Planning, University of Sassari, Piazza Duomo 6, 07041 Alghero, Italy
Salvatore Giuffrida: Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Catania, Via Santa Sofia 23, 95124 Catania, Italy
Maria Rosa Trovato: Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Catania, Via Santa Sofia 23, 95124 Catania, Italy

Land, 2021, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-37

Abstract: This contribution proposes an inter-scalar and multi-polar analysis evaluation model of the territory of the Enna district, aimed at providing a robust axiological representation of the salient aspects of the general issue of internal areas, and therefore of the set of criticalities affecting them from the perspective of the human and urban capital they express. In the prospect of investigating the relations between urban and life quality—corresponding to the “city effect”—in the territorial context of each of the 20 municipalities of the Enna district, a hierarchical descriptive-valuation model was created, which coordinates a relevant amount of information units (data) and the corresponding attributes, indicators and indices that have been turned in aggregate value judgments attributed to each administrative land unit, from the perspectives of the criteria referred to as the main forms of the territorial capital. This is a multi-dimensional valuation model based on the Multi-Attribute Value Theory. Each survey and processing is mapped with different levels of detail at the scale of municipalities, census sections and cadastral land units. The outcome of this complex process of analysis and assessment provides multiple comparisons, revealing unexpected and sometimes counter-intuitive aspects in several municipalities, some of which are characterised by innovative prospects and opportunities for redevelopment of their historic centers. Correlations between information units at the different levels of the dendrogram have also indicated interesting trends and attitudes, whose comparisons can address territorial policies on both a local and provincial scale. Furthermore, the focus on the “cities network” is here assumed and proposed as the privileged point of observation of territory and the related aspects of the quality of life.

Keywords: social-territorial disadvantage; inner land areas; land-urban multidimensional analysis; land urban economies; multicriteria Analysis; land real estate market values (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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