Negreiros, Iara (2018) Urban retrofitting an approach to support decision-making. PhD thesis, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
Abstract
Accommodating growing populations in cities will have major implications not only for employment, housing and the construction industry, but also for urban infrastructure including transportation, energy, water and open or green space. Infrastructure constraints currently include ageing, underutilized and inadequate existing built environment, as well as a lack of integration in planning, design and management strategies for future infrastructure development in long-term scenarios. As building retrofit, which interventions take place in isolated buildings and their constituting systems performance, urban retrofitting can be understood as a set of interventions designed to upgrade and sustain an urban area by providing a long-term practical response to its current problems and pressures. Such interventions must take into account the future population´s needs by ensuring that the present urban infrastructure provides a firm basis for launching and achieving a city's ambitions for the future. One of the main requirements for urban retrofitting is a clearly defined set of goals and metrics for monitoring purposes. This thesis presents a method for urban retrofit implementation at city scale using a visual tool to support decision-making and urban planning processes. Using Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targets, the 100 ISO 37120:2014 'indicators for city services and quality of life', Simple Moving Averages (SMA) trend analysis, clustering and city benchmarking, this method proposes creating an adaptative and flexible dashboard, that could aggregate and filter data, such as: ISO 37120 sections, indicators classification, time and spatial levels, etc. The resulting dashboard is interactive and friendly, and can be fully accessed in https://bit.ly/2EDnZ4J. We use Sorocaba, a medium sized, well-located city in São Paulo State in Brazil, as a case study, focusing on the challenges and opportunities arising from exceptional urban population growth, and ranking key retrofit interventions in Sorocaba as possible forerunners of future urban development scenarios.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Thesis advisor: | Abiko, Alex Kenya |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | city benchmarking; clustering analysis; trend analysis; urban redevelopment; urban retrofitting; urban sustainability |
| Index terms: | implementation, construction industry, clustering, urban development, built environment, sustainable development goal, monitoring, employment, aggregate, case study, management strategy, dashboard, retrofitting, benchmarking, housing, urban planning, integration, urban area, decision-making, population, urban infrastructure, infrastructure development, quality of life, Brazil, urban redevelopment, ISO |
| Subjects: | contractual arrangements, urban planning, materials science, construction type, demography, urban design, infrastructure engineering, Geography, sustainable design, urban form and morphology, data science, standards development, control systems, data collection methods, infrastructure and transport systems, industry analysis, decision analysis, organizational analysis, post-disaster and reconstruction, public and environmental health, performance measurement, renovation and retrofit, management |
| Topics: | Digital Applications, Urban Studies, Human Resources, Organizational Design, Site Management, Business Strategy, Research Practice, Governance, Construction Technology, Quality Management, Health and Safety, Engineering Principles, Geographical Context, Risk Management, Sustainability, Procurement |
| Descriptive scope: | 4 PCTE |
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