EVALUATING SUSTAINABLE TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT WITH BUILT CAPITAL INDICATORS

Abstract

In order to bolster the concept of sustainable territorial development inconjunction with the three capitals — natural, social, and built capital —,a conceptual methodology was elaborated. It utilized the infrastructuresystems to group indicator dimensions of built capital, highlighting whatactually corresponds to the territorial development reality and not justeconomic growth. This resulted in the selection of 70 indicators that weretested with data from the Curitiba Metropolitan Region (CMR). Thirty-fiveindicators were selected from the data available to evaluate the developmentin 29 municipalities that form the CMR. Finally, the Sustainable TerritorialDevelopment Index (INFRASTDI) and Inequality Index (II) were proposed tosummarize the information collected.