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Public Green Space Use and Consequences on Urban Vitality: An Assessment of European Cities

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  • Miguel Lopes
  • Ana Camanho

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The promotion of quality of life is becoming ever more important in a scenario of regional, national and even international competition among cities, triggered by globalization. Public sites, and green spaces in particular, which are available in varying extent in all urban areas, can bring important benefits to urban vitality and, as a consequence, to quality of life. However, cities are intricate entities and measuring their success in converting the potential for public green space usage into increased quality of life is a difficult task. In order to contribute to the objective of assessing the potential for public green space use, and its consequences on urban vitality, we applied the Data Envelopment Analysis technique to assess a total of 174 European cities. The results detect the best performing cities, and for the cities considered inefficient, a set of benchmarks is identified, whose best practices can be copied to support efforts of performance improvement. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2013

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  • Miguel Lopes & Ana Camanho, 2013. "Public Green Space Use and Consequences on Urban Vitality: An Assessment of European Cities," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 113(3), pages 751-767, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:soinre:v:113:y:2013:i:3:p:751-767
    DOI: 10.1007/s11205-012-0106-9
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