Accessibility assessment of three housing states in Barcelona's Metropolitan Area tackling the 15-minute city concept
Almost half of Barcelona’s Metropolitan Area residents have difficulties accessing services and facilities every day. Taking this into account and adding the fact that a huge percentage of these people are forced to use motorized vehicles as their transportation, the concept of the 15-minute city re...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis de maestría |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Repositorio: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/376305 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2117/376305 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | City planning Cluster housing Infrastructure (Economics) Accessibility 15-minute city Housing states amenities services transport mobility Urbanisme Conjunts residencials Equipaments col·lectius Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Urbanisme::Aspectes socials |
| Sumario: | Almost half of Barcelona’s Metropolitan Area residents have difficulties accessing services and facilities every day. Taking this into account and adding the fact that a huge percentage of these people are forced to use motorized vehicles as their transportation, the concept of the 15-minute city remains cut off from reality. This idea describes an urban model which guarantees short distances to the amenities reachable by foot and bicycle in less than a quarter of an hour. In this context,one of the most common built urban morphologies is housing states, designed with the only function to dwell and letting behind all the other daily basic needs. These residential blocks are the perfect representation of an antithesis of the sustainable and healthy urban planning model mentioned before. From this framework, this project seeks to measure the level of accessibility in three housing estates in Barcelona's Metropolitan Area (Can Ros, Sud-Oest del Besòs and Canaletes) with the aim of evaluating the lack of reachability to basic equipments and services. Also, it is intended to analyze if there exists any relation with the level of accessibility to public transport. All the research has been performed following the 15-minute city concept methodology and the standards proposed by the Diputació de Barcelona to ensure the equipments needed in the area per inhabitant. After applying this many-sided methodology, the results show that none of the studied areas reaches the required amount of accessibility to fundamental amenities. Nevertheless, some differences between the sites reveal a correlation with their locations considering the distance to the city centre.Moreover, the relation of the accessibility to services with public transport is not determined by the given factors, letting a path for future research. Besides the results,and looking forward to further applications, a novel methodology for rating the level of accessibility to services is described in order to to be replicable. |
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