Neighbourhood Park Vitality Potential: from Jane Jacobs’s Theory to Evaluation Model

Sustainability

Giuseppe A. Trunfio¹  Valeria Saiu²  Federica Banchiero²  Ivan Blečić² 

[1] Department of Architecture, Design and Urbanism, University of Sassari, 07041 Alghero, Italy;Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Architecture, University of Cagliari, 09123 Cagliari, Italy;

关键词: Jane Jacobs;    neighbourhood parks;    urban vitality;    urban diversity;    evaluation model;    planning support;   

DOI  :  10.3390/su12155881

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

We construct a method to evaluate the neighbourhood park vitality potential (NPV-potential), inspired by Jane Jacobs’s theory of urban and park vitality. The evaluation model produces an aggregate score of NPV-potential by combining information on the extrinsic factors of vitality, related to the park’s surrounding urban area, with evaluative judgements on the intrinsic factors, related to the park’s internal organization and design. To showcase and submit the evaluation model to a preliminary test drive, we further present the results of an application on three parks in the city of Cagliari, Italy. The computed NPV-potential and the effective use of the three parks, obtained from direct observation, show a good degree of agreement. While far from a robust validation, which would require more extensive empirical studies with larger and more internally variable samples of parks, the reported agreement between the potential and the observed vitality on the ground is a preliminary indication of the possible usefulness of the proposed evaluation method for urban planning and design.

【 授权许可】

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