Assessment of Urban Neighbourhoods’ Vulnerability through an Integrated Vulnerability Index (IVI)

Evidence from Barcelona, Spain

Bibliographic Data

ID13027183
AuthorsGonzalo Piasek (0000-0001-9339-2661, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, corresponding author), Iraide Fernández Aragón (0000-0003-0669-7155, University of the Basque Country), Julia Shershneva (0000-0003-3098-9991, University of the Basque Country), M Pilar Garcia-Almirall (0000-0002-5918-118X, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
Year2022
Volume11
Issue10
Pages476-476
Publication date2022-10-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/socsci11100476
OpenAlexW4306403085
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited35

Urban inequality, specifically in vulnerable areas, has been a study topic from the earliest days of sociology to the present. This study’s objective is to discuss the scope and limitation of the concept of urban vulnerability, whilst generating an index that detects urban vulnerability in all its dimensions. A factor analysis of the main components was conducted resulting in the formation of four partial indices related to the social class, gentrification, social and employment, and physical & architectural dimensions of urban vulnerability, whilst their sums conform an integrated vulnerability index. This index is applied to the city of Barcelona, allowing its neighbourhoods to be positioned on a vulnerability continuum. Despite being applied in this city, the integrated vulnerability index emerges with the purpose of being replicated to other urban spaces. The mapping of these results using geographic information systems suggests a robust index that allows early identification of problematics, while also providing clues for policy intervention

Computer security · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Gentrification · Geography · Index (typography · Psychological resilience · Regional science · Social vulnerability · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Vulnerability index · Computer Science · Health disparities and outcomes · Psychology · Regional resilience and development · Social Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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