Urban services provision between proximity and socioeconomic fragilities: a GIS-based analysis of Bologna

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE
Author/s Alessandra Landi, Tommaso Rimondi
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2024/135
Language English Pages 14 P. 28-41 File size 137 KB
DOI 10.3280/SUR2024-135002
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This work aims to investigate whether Bologna (Italy), a medium-sized Mediterranean city, can be described as a “proximity city”, analyzing service distribution within the city and populations inhabiting them. Using information on urban service provision in Bologna and census tracts data, the spatial distribution of public services across neighborhoods is analyzed, to measure service provision and accessibility in 5, 10 or 15 minutes by walking. The socioeconomic composition of each area is then taken into account, to go beyond a mere description of service proximity, inquiring urban fragilities, their spatialization and the relations existing among socioeconomic fragilities and service accessibility in Bologna’s neighborhoods. The results draw a geography made of a partial overlap of fragilities and lack of services, but also interesting “outliers”.

Keywords: Bologna, 15-minute city, GIS, urban fragilities, accessibility, services

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Alessandra Landi, Tommaso Rimondi, Urban services provision between proximity and socioeconomic fragilities: a GIS-based analysis of Bologna in "SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE" 135/2024, pp 28-41, DOI: 10.3280/SUR2024-135002