Abstract
The urban planning and evaluation literature suggests that making a walkable city means creating a resilient and healthy city. In recent years, alternative mobility has been the subject of numerous studies, showing that the concept of urban walkability can be used as an additional support in planning resilient cities. Though researchers agree that walkability assessment has a positive impact on public space planning, it is still difficult to include the topic in planning strategies because of its novelty in the scientific debate. This paper will first review the literature on walkability assessment and then propose a multi-methodological assessment framework that fills the gaps in existing assessment methods. The multi-methodological assessment framework contributes to overcoming the idea that objective and subjective aspects are “not part of the same planning project.” Thanks to its combination of hard and soft methods, the assessment framework illustrated in this paper can consider physical and perceptual aspects simultaneously and represent them visually using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). It can thus provide easily readable results that can be applied in establishing guidelines for planning resilient cities.
Highlights
Let’s think about how our cognitive ability and our experience will diminish, for example looking at the use of Google Maps: well, people have no idea where it is interesting to walk because they are glued to the phone to get in the most efficient way from A to B
Though researchers agree that walkability assessment has a positive impact on public space planning, it is still difficult to include the topic in planning strategies because of its novelty in the scientific debate
Elaboration of a survey test 40 students of the PoliTO campus + PoliTO masterplan Changing the indexes and the indicators selected in the Choice phase 4 indexes and 28 indicators)
Summary
Let’s think about how our cognitive ability and our experience will diminish, for example looking at the use of Google Maps: well, people have no idea where it is interesting to walk because they are glued to the phone to get in the most efficient way from A to B. The concept has gained increasing importance in numerous disciplines [2] including urban planning, [3,4] where many researchers have increasingly stressed the need for tools to support appropriate policies for creating resilient and inclusive cities [5,6,7]. The challenge of urban planning is to design adaptive settlements capable of facing the threats to resilience [10]. In this perspective, the term resilient is not used to design or describe an ideal urban space [11] but to emphasize the need for urban spaces able to be safe, livable, open, accessible, healthy and designed to a human scale [12,13,14,15]
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