How Naples is Redesigning Urban Life Through Analytics to Improve the Comfort and Well-Being of Citizens

Within the process of reviewing its Masterplan, Naples is facing complex issues, ranging from Climate change adaptation to Social Equity. It is necessary to update the provision of public services at the neighbourhood level and assess sustainable mobility implementation. Planners must ensure a fair distribution of resources for the population, designing a city with accessible services just a few minutes from residential areas, and use public assets (buildings, open space) as opportunities for climate adaptation interventions, especially to address phenomena such as heat islands, that constitute a serious risk to human health in the Mediterranean climate zone. Building a knowledge framework for the activity of planners and providing a definition of specific indicators, declined for each neighbourhood is reinforced through a detailed data analysis, which brings together, integrates and compares statistical data, public property asset, characteristics of urban greenery, contextualized and mapped according to the geography of the neighbourhoods. With the use of advanced data analytics tools, planners obtain a clear and comparative view of the socioeconomic and environmental features for each neighbourhood, can assess accessibility and make extensive use of geospatial derived data to define strategies and design new adapted and equitable public space. Web based data analytics are supporting public planners in the decision process, demonstrating with crucial data strategy implementation. Web tools, provided by the integration between BeOpen Framework and BDTI Platform, support data sharing with citizens.