Urban Vibrancy: An Emerging Factor that Spatially Influences the Real Estate Market

Urban vibrancy is defined and measured differently in the literature. Originally, it was described as the number of people in and around streets or neighborhoods. Now, it is commonly associated with activity intensity, the diversity of land-use configurations, and the accessibility of a place. The aim of this paper is to study urban vibrancy, its relationship with neighborhood services, and the real estate market. Firstly, it is used a set of neighborhood service variables, and a Principal Component Analysis is performed in order to create a Neighborhood Services Index (NeSI) that is able to identify the most and least vibrant urban areas of a city. Secondly, the influence of urban vibrancy on the listing prices of existing housing is analyzed by performing spatial analyses. To achieve this, the presence of spatial autocorrelation is investigated and spatial clusters are identified. Therefore, spatial autoregressive models are applied to manage spatial effects and to identify the variables that significantly influence the process of housing price determination. The results confirm that housing prices are spatially autocorrelated and highlight that housing prices and NeSI are statistically associated with each other. The identification of the urban areas characterized by different levels of vibrancy and housing prices can effectively support the revision of the urban development plan and its regulatory act, as well as strategic urban policies and actions. Such data analyses support a deep knowledge of the current status quo, which is necessary to drive important changes to develop more effcient, sustainable, and competitive cities

EPC Labels and Building Features: Spatial Implications over Housing Prices

The influence of building or dwelling energy performance on the real estate market dynamics and pricing processes is deeply explored, due to the fact that energy efficiency improvement is one of the fundamental reasons for retrofitting the existing housing stock. Nevertheless, the joint effect produced by the building energy performance and the architectural, typological, and physical-technical attributes seems poorly studied. Thus, the aim of this work is to investigate the influence of both energy performance and diverse features on property prices, by performing spatial analyses on a sample of housing properties listed on Turin’s real estate market and on different sub-samples. In particular, Exploratory Spatial Data Analyses (ESDA) statistics, standard hedonic price models (Ordinary Least Squares—OLS) and Spatial Error Models (SEM) are firstly applied on the whole data sample, and then on three different sub-samples: two territorial clusters and a sub-sample representative of the most energy inefficient buildings constructed between 1946 and 1990. Results demonstrate that Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) labels are gaining power in influencing price variations, contrary to the empirical evidence that emerged in some previous studies. Furthermore, the presence of the spatial effects reveals that the impact of energy attributes changes in different sub-markets and thus has to be spatially analysed

Assessing Social and Territorial Vulnerability on Real Estate Submarkets

The concept of social vulnerability is widely studied in literature in order to identify particularly socially fragile sectors of the population. For this purpose, several studies have adopted indexes to measure the economic and social conditions of the population. The aim of this paper is to investigate the link between social and territorial vulnerability and the real estate market, by means of an exploratory analysis related to the possibility that spatial analyses can help to identify spatial latent components and variables in the process of price determination. A three phase approach is proposed, using the geographical segmentation of Turin and its related submarkets as a case study. After the identification and analysis of a set of three social and territorial vulnerability indicators, a traditional hedonic approach was applied to measure their influence on property listing prices. Subsequently, spatial analyses were investigated to focus on the spatial components of the indicators and property prices; their spatial autocorrelation was measured and the presence of spatial dependence was taken into account by applying a spatial regression. Results demonstrated that two indicators were spatially correlated with property prices and had a significant and negative influence on them. The proposed approach may help not only to identify the most vulnerable urban areas characterized by the lowest property prices, but also to support the future modification to the actual geographical segmentation of Turin

Location and real estate values: a study for the segmentation of the Microzones of Turin

The city of Turin is segmented in 40 cadastral Microzones, approved by the City Council in June 1999, which are set up as independent segments of the real estate market. Eighteen years have passed since the approval of the division of the city into homogeneous spatial segments, a period of time in which the pattern of the city has changed, both on the level of urban planning and due to the important changes in the real estate market, most notably the economic-financial crisis which has led to a steady decrease of prices from 2010 to date. Over the past few years, prior to upgrading the Microzones, the Turin Real Estate Market Observatory (TREMO) conducted a series of studies including the segmentation of the Microzones in Historical Territorial Units (HTU), identified on the basis of a historical-urban analysis of the area without questioning the boundaries of the Microzones. The purpose of this article is to illustrate the HTUs and to examine the contribution that a territorial unit smaller than the Microzone can give to the explanation of property prices, taking into account that when decreasing the territorial extension, one has to manage even less representative data samples. In order to study the explanatory capacity of the positional variable, together with a series of variables related to the features of the apartments and buildings in the price determination process, a hedonic model was applied by using a sample of housing units offered on the market during the four-year period 2013-2016. In particular, starting from the territorial segmentation of the Microzones in the HTUs, a traditional hedonic model was applied: in the first application, the Microzone positional variable was assumed, whereas in the second, the HTUs were adopted. Both applications generated significant results, with a high coefficient of determination (Adjusted R2) and an excellent explanatory capacity of the variables considered. The importance of the “location”, taken into consideration through the Microzones or through the HTUs, is historically recognized even at an international level and continues to be one of the most important features in the listing price determination process, even during the crisis period of the real estate market

Sistema interactivo como objeto virtual de aprendizaje aplicado a las técnicas de comunicación en comunidades lejanas de la República Democrática del Congo

El presente trabajo contiene la descripción del producto final del proyecto 'Sistema interactivo como objeto virtual de aprendizaje aplicado a las técnicas de comunicación en comunidades lejanas de la República Democrática del Congo.', diseñado a la medida y basado en los requerimientos específicos del usuario final (Misioneros de la Consolata radicados en ese país). Este producto consiste en un prototipo de software orientado por los procesos del ciclo de vida del mismo (Planificación, análisis de requerimientos, diseño, desarrollo e implementación), realizado para aplicar las estrategias postuladas por la teoría de aprendizaje mixto (Blended Learning); las cuales se centran en la combinación de sesiones presenciales con actividades virtuales

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multidisciplinary approaches to the experiences and landscapes of seclusion and solitude

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An innovative methodological and operational approach to developing Management Plans for UNESCO World Heritage Sites: a Geographic Information System for “Ivrea, industrial city of the 20th century”

The model for developing Management Plans for UNESCO World Heritage Sites drawn up by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities in 2005 is no longer wholly adequate in terms of promoting heritage resources and their local contexts. The article considers the innovation developed in the IT/ICT field and provides theoretical and methodological considerations, based on which a new methodology for devising Management Plans could be developed. A Geographic Information System (GIS) for the knowledge and management of the site “Ivrea, industrial city of the 20th century”, is proposed as an innovative, dynamic, interoperable model that can both support urban-scale projects to capture the economic value of cultural heritage and promote forms of indirect enjoyment of the site

Sistema web sobre plataforma Cloud para el proceso logístico de la empresa H&J Drywall construcciones S.A.C

La presente investigación se basa en el estudio controlado de la influencia de dos indicadores importantes para el proceso logístico, los cuales afectan a la realidad problemática de la empresa H&J Drywall Construcciones S.A.C. La investigación duró aproximadamente un año donde el primer semestre se procedió con la extracción de la información más importante de su proceso logístico; es aquí donde juntamente con el jefe de administración y de ventas se halló que tal proceso cuenta con problemas en base al problema de gestión de sus materiales y despacho de estos. Por este motivo, al realizar el estudio del primer indicador de exactitud en inventarios se encontró una población de 12 documentos en un mes identificando una muestra también de la misma cantidad, mientras que para el indicador de nivel de cumplimiento en despachos se halló una población de 305 entregas tomando como referencia 122 entregas como muestra. En ambos casos se observó incremento favorable para esta investigación, aumentando en la exactitud en inventarios y el nivel de cumplimiento en despachos

Bailando donde se enseña a bailar : Una experiencia de trabajo de campo

Como parte del trabajo de investigación “Estudio de las prácticas corporales, artísticas/recreativas, realizadas en formaciones y lugares de las ciudades de Neuquén/Cipolletti y Bariloche”, hemos realizado trabajo de campo con grupos de danza, teatro, circo y murga organizados en asociaciones, peñas, escuelas, talleres barriales y grupos de acción callejera. El trabajo de campo incluyó la participación de los investigadorxs bailando donde se enseña a bailar, tocando tambores donde se enseña a tocar tambores, así como la práctica de murga, circo callejero o parcour. El propósito era conocer y analizar los modos de organización, las concepciones sobre la práctica corporal, los “formatos identitarios” y las estrategias para la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de las habilidades y técnicas corporales, formas de movimiento, coreografías y maneras de hablar del cuerpo en movimiento. En esta ponencia, a través del relato del trabajo de campo realizado por uno de los autores en un taller de “danza para varones” en el año 2015 en la Escuela experimental de danza contemporánea (EEDC) de la ciudad de Neuquén, presentamos un primer análisis sobre modos de organización y estrategias vinculadas a la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de la danza contemporánea.Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educació