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Comparative urban performance assessment of safe cities through data envelopment analysis

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  • Karima Kourtit
  • Peter Nijkamp
  • Soushi Suzuki

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Sustainable urban development calls for a balanced package of conditions that induce a high quality of life (including safety and security) in cities. We argue that modern cities have to develop knowledge‐ based strategies for smart, safe and sound (3‐S) city development, supported by urban performance assessment (UPA) as a framework for sustainable urban planning. The present study builds on these strategic notions and articulates the message that smart urban policy should look into input resources in relation to output performance. Particular attention will be paid to the constituents and the role of multiple safety indicators in urban performance analysis. Next, an appropriate method from the industrial management literature, namely, super‐efficient data en591elopment analysis (SE‐DEA) will be utilized in order to undertake a comparative performance assessment of safety conditions in 57 world cities, followed by a similar analysis for 14 large European cities. Both world‐wide and Europe‐wide, there appear to be significant differences in safety performance of cities, which means that there is much scope for strategic and effective safety policy in many cities. El desarrollo urbano sostenible exige un conjunto equilibrado de condiciones que puedan crear una alta calidad de vida (incluida la seguridad y la protección) en las ciudades. Se sostiene que las ciudades modernas tienen que desarrollar estrategias basadas en el conocimiento para un desarrollo de las ciudades que sea 3‐S (sabio, seguro y sensato), apoyado por el uso de la evaluación del rendimiento urbano como un marco conceptual para la planificación urbana sostenible. El presente estudio se basa en estas nociones estratégicas y articula el mensaje de que una política urbana inteligente debe examinar los recursos de los insumos en relación con el rendimiento de los productos. Se prestó especial atención a los componentes y al papel de los múltiples indicadores de seguridad en el análisis del desempeño urbano. A continuación, se empleó un método apropiado obtenido de la literatura sobre gestión industrial, a saber, el análisis envolvente de datos supereficiente para realizar una evaluación comparativa de las condiciones de seguridad en 57 ciudades del mundo, seguido de un análisis similar para 14 grandes ciudades europeas. Tanto en todo el mundo como en toda Europa, parece haber diferencias significativas en el desempeño de las ciudades en materia de seguridad, lo que significa que hay un amplio margen en muchas ciudades para la introducción de políticas de seguridad estratégica y eficaz. 持続可能な都市開発には、高い生活の質 (安全及び治安を含む)を都市にもたらす、バランスのとれたいくつかの条件が必要である。持続可能な都市の計画のフレームワークとしての都市性能評価 (urban performance assessment: UPA)の支持の下、現代の都市は、スマートで、安全で、健全な (smart, safe and sound:3S)都市開発のための、知識に基づいた計画を立案しなければならない。本研究では、こうした計画的概念に基づき、スマートな都市政策はアウトプット性能に関連したインプット・リソースを調べるべきであるというメッセージを明確にする。都市のパフォーマンス分析における構成要素と複数の安全性指標の役割に特に注意を払う。次に、工業経営研究で用いられている適切な方法、すなわち、超効率データ包絡分析法 (super‐efficient data envelopment analysis: SE‐DEA)を用いて、世界の57の都市における安全条件の比較性能評価を行い、続いてヨーロッパの14の大都市を対象に同様の分析を行う。世界全体でも欧州全体でも、都市の安全性の性能には大きな違いがあるが、すなわち多くの都市で戦略的かつ効果的な安全政策の余地があることを意味する。

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  • Karima Kourtit & Peter Nijkamp & Soushi Suzuki, 2021. "Comparative urban performance assessment of safe cities through data envelopment analysis," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 13(3), pages 591-602, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:rgscpp:v:13:y:2021:i:3:p:591-602
    DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12276
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