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From Livable Communities to Livable Metropolis: Challenges for Urban Mobility in Lisbon Metropolitan Area (Portugal)
- Source :
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Volume 18, Issue 7, Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal, Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP), instacron:RCAAP, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 3525, p 3525 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021.
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Abstract
- Urban mobility plays an important role in addressing urban livability. The complexification and dispersion of travel due to the improvement of transport and the multiplication of our daily living places underline the relevance of multilevel territorial planning, recognizing that the knowledge of local differences is essential for more effective urban policies. This paper aims (1) to comprehend conceptually how urban mobility contributes to the urban livability from the local to metropolitan level and (2) to assess the previous relation toward a livable metropolis based on the readily available statistics for the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. Hence, a triangulation between conceptual, political/operative, and quantitative/monitoring approaches is required. The methodology follows four steps: (1) literature review focusing on the quantification of urban mobility within the urban livability approach<br />(2) data collection from the Portuguese statistics system<br />(3) data analysis and results, using principal component analysis (PCA) followed by cluster analysis (CA)<br />(4) discussion and conclusions. In Portugal, although it is implicit, consistency is evident between the premises of recent urban mobility policies and respective planning instruments, such as the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMP), and the premises of urban livability as an urban movement. Focusing on the national statistics system, the available indicators that meet our quality criteria are scarce and represent a reduced number of domains. Even so, they allow identifying intra-metropolitan differences in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LMA) that could support multilevel planning instruments. The results identified five principal components related to commuting at the local and intermunicipal level, including car use as well as social and environmental externalities, and they reorganized the 18 LMA municipalities into eight groups, clearly isolating Lisbon, the capital, from the others. The identification of sensitive territories and respective problems based on urban livability principles is fundamental for an effective urban planning from livable communities to livable metropolis.
- Subjects :
- Underline
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
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lcsh:Medicine
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
Article
Urban planning
0502 economics and business
Regional science
Ethnicity
Humans
Indicators
Quality (business)
Cities
City Planning
Livable communities
livable metropolis
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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Urban mobility
050210 logistics & transportation
Data collection
Portugal
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05 social sciences
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
livable communities
Metropolitan area
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indicators
Identification (information)
Geography
urban mobility
Lisbon Metropolitan Area
language
SUMP
Livable metropolis
Portuguese
Externality
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 16604601
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4de88325277c3070972f03051d3c0ba1
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18073525