Abstract
<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Identify homogeneous areas for metropolitan cities in order to activate a new governance based on territorial synergistic and symbiotic conditions, thus increasing multidimensional territorial productive processes through spatial planning.</p><p><strong>Methodology/Approach: </strong>The adopted methodology aimed at structuring a Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS) through three main phases: 1) Selection of criteria and indicators; 2) Statistical implementation procedures; 3) Multi-criteria evaluation.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Experimentation of a useful procedure for supporting the elaboration of strategic metropolitan plans oriented to development strategies for achieving a comprehensive territorial productivity. The obtained results can support the selection of territorial opportunities able to integrate complementary local resources and to activate synergies and symbiosis among them, combining tangible and intangible components.</p><p><strong>Research Limitation/implication: </strong>The research is the first step of a more general study that will be improved with the availability of more data, especially with reference to the industrial and economic processes.</p><strong>Originality/Value of paper: </strong>Proposal of an approach based on a complete integration between Geographic Information System, Multivariate Analysis and Multi-Criteria Evaluation in order to improve the governance of metropolitan cities.
Highlights
Improving the planning activity of cities towards a higher productivity and giving, at the same time, a human shape to local development, requires a multiplication of the density of relationships between activities, areas, institutions and inhabitants
The future of metropolitan cities lies in our creative choices and in our creative capacity to identify cooperative win-win solutions, characterised by synergies and symbioses, able to increase metropolitan productivity (Fusco Girard and Di Palma, 2016) through scale economies, agglomeration economies, the territorial value added on time and the synergies economies
The Metropolitan City of Naples is an interesting example wherein to implement a methodological approach, able to support the elaboration of the strategic plan oriented to development strategies for improving the comprehensive territorial productivity
Summary
Improving the planning activity of cities towards a higher productivity and giving, at the same time, a human shape to local development, requires a multiplication of the density of relationships between activities, areas, institutions and inhabitants. The circular urban economy is referred to the comprehensive city economic organisation, through different kinds of symbioses, demonstrating that the circular organisation is able to produce economic convenience, ecological benefits and social benefits, enhancing the attractiveness of the city/territory In this perspective, urban planning should be able to manage the circular/virtuous processes between the metropolitan city and the rural territory through a systemic approach, evoking the approaches and tools of industrial ecology; the attention to the flow analysis between the city and the territory, to the urban metabolism, to synergistic exchanges between resources flows, due to the spatial/geographic proximity. The paper moves in an ongoing research context, with a double aim: to develop an operational approach through the case-study and, at the same time, to produce a theoretical-methodological approach for an eventual replicability in analogous problems of homogeneous territorial areas classification It proposes a comprehensive metropolitan productivity framework for the Metropolitan City of Naples.
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