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This paper introduces MIDA – Metropolitan Impacts & Drivers Assessment – a dynamic multi-scale metrics-to-grid map protocol to gather, process and visualize data that is crucial for the contemporary urban environment. Through three sets of two maps, the tool explores the complexity of the city beyond its administrative boundaries from a spatial and analytical perspective. Moreover, MIDA is an application built in the R programming language to permit an effective dynamic framework for the analysis of different contexts around the world in different time-spans, and according to different indicators. Finally, through a case study, this paper shows how MIDA is meant to steer the debate on sustainability, as well as to function as a screening protocol for comparison of cities for research purposes.
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Neri, I. (2021). MIDA Metropolitan Impacts and Drivers Assessment. In: Contin, A. (eds) Metropolitan Landscapes. Landscape Series, vol 28. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74424-3_13
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