Abstract
The interplay between land take and climate change is reviving the debate on the environmental impacts of urbanization. Monitoring and evaluation of land-cover and land-use changes have secured political commitment worldwide, and in the European Union in particular – following the agreement on a “no net land take by 2050” target. This paper addresses the ensuing challenges by investigating how open data services and spatial indicators may help manage urban sprawl more effectively. Experts, scholars, students and local government officials were engaged in a living lab exercise centered around the uptake of geospatial data in planning, policy making and design processes. Main findings point to a great potential, and pressing need, for open spatial data services in mainstreaming sustainable land use practices. However, urban sprawl’s elusiveness calls for interactive approaches, since the actual usability of proposed tools needs to be carefully investigated and planned for.
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In the context of this paper, into indicators and maps.
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Further information may be found at http://www.ponrec.it/open-data/progetti/scheda-progetto?ProgettoID=7431.
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These include the national research center on land take (consumosuolo.org), a research group based at the University of Basilicata (lisut.org/it), the in-house company of the Puglia regional administration that is in charge of managing the regional geoportal (sit.puglia.it), the national association of urban and regional planners (inu.it), and some members of the regional open data movement (openpuglia.org).
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All data are available at: www.consumosuolo.isprambiente.it. See ISPRA [29] for detailed methodological information.
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Browse at www.sit.puglia.it (in Italian) to view and download data.
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A national partnership established by the Polytechnic University of Milan, the National Planning Association (INU), and an environmental NGO (Legambiente), to act as a think-tank in addressing land take and soil sealing.
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Available at: http://en.istat.it.
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It should be stressed, however, that these are census data and there are different reasons why declared residents’ figures might depart from actual ones.
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The research illustrated in this paper was carried out within the framework of the Multimedia Information for Territorial Objects (MITO) project, funded under the European Regional Development Fund. The authors thank all participants in the living lab experience at MITO-Lab, Department for Civil Engineering and Architecture, Polytechnic of Bari.
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Bonifazi, A., Sannicandro, V., Attardi, R., Di Cugno, G., Torre, C.M. (2016). Countryside vs City: A User-Centered Approach to Open Spatial Indicators of Urban Sprawl. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2016. ICCSA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9789. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42089-9_12
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