New perspectives on urban sustainbility analysis: space-time evaluation in the context of multicriteria decision-making

Andrea De Montis and Peter Nijkamp
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Andrea De Montis: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Econometrie (Free University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics Sciences, Business Administration and Economitrics

No 54, Serie Research Memoranda from VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Econometrics

Abstract: In the last decades researchers have emphasized the link between evaluation and planning, as an indispensable component in seeking reasonable and balanced choices for regional planning and economic policy. According to these scholars, evaluation becomes part of planning throughout the whole process of policy preparation. Multicriteria analysis (MCA) is one of the most utilized techniques for performing evaluation studies dealing with the ranking of alternatives in the presence of conflicting objectives. It plays also a key role in urben sustainability analysis. After a critical judgement of the potential of MCA methods, this paper seeks to explain in which way MCA can be modified in order to become a flexible tool for urban decision-making and to propose how this task may be accomplished by means of an integration between spatial analysis and MCA with a view to sustainable cities.

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Date: 1999
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