Francesco Selicato

Climate alteration in the metropolitan area of bari: temperatures and relationship with characters of urban context

Urban planning exerts influences on environmental, social and economic system related with the city. Processes of land transformation and city growth determine radical changes in urban landscape morphology and as a consequence they affect air temperature and energy exchange. The urbanization can bear on local climate more intensively than the global warming does. This is due to the rapidity of human made changes related to natural ones. The present work analyzes the state of the art of studies involved in studying urban climate anomalies --- Urban Heat Islands (UHI) --- in order to explore relationship between urban planning morphology and urban climate. The research aim wants to indentify how urban geometry can be related with climate alterations in order to provide guidelines for planners to frame urban form planning and environmental quality. The case study is the city of Bari, located on the coast of the Mediterranean sea, in Apulia, one of the regions in Italy.

ICT to evaluate participation in urban planning: remarks from a case study

The paper study the ICT available to evaluate participation in urban planning, starting from a relevant experience made in Italy inside a funding programme of the Italian Ministry for Innovation and Technology. It starts describing the state of the art of methods and techniques to evaluate participation in urban planning and the informatics tools available to support these participation processes, before the arrival on the scene of the social networks such as Facebook or Twitter. In the following paragraph the paper describes the case study: a participation process in the South of Italy, made to design the master plan of a medium sized city. In the following paragraph ICT used in the case of study are discussed and revised. In the last paragraph conclusions are made on this relevant subject for urban planning and design offering some general reflections.

Cultural Territorial Systems

The main objective of this chapter is to introduce the book as a first result of ongoing research about cultural heritage and landscape as a key for a sustainable local development. A place-based approach is useful to promote cultural territorial systems as the necessary interpretative format to understand the contemporary urban and territorial structure, which is often polarized between metropolitan areas and small and mid-sized towns.

Internal Areas Strategies: From Statistical Methods to Planning Policies

The “National Strategy for Internal Areas”, made by the Italian Government for the European Union Partnership Agreement 2014-2020, defines the territory of the Italian internal areas as a set of project-areas, local inter-municipal systems each with its own territorial identity defined by social, economic, geographic, demographic and environmental characteristics. In this sense, we can define “internal” those areas significantly distant from the centers of supply of essential services (education, health, and mobility), rich in environmental and cultural resources with highly diversified natural aspects. The objective of the work is to re-elaborate the existing mapping for the identification of the internal areas, made by the Italian Government, especially taking into account the demographic, economic, morphological profiles and essential services supply, through the use of fuzzy logic. Then, trying to deep explain possible planning strategies and policies for these relevant, sometimes abandoned and extremely diffuse territories.

How to Build Territorial Networks: Criteria for the Evaluation of the Networking Potential for Local Self-sustainable Development *

The processes of globalization have led to a substantial change in the urban and territorial systems and the role of each of their parts. In the age of technological change and knowledge society, the change in the structure of the city has started up a social and cultural reorganization, as a consequence of the response of the territories to the global dynamics. This is a multidimensional phenomenon, able to involve all the human dynamics related to free movement of goods, services, capital, knowledge and people. This paper seeks to understand whether the model of territorial networks may be the answer to the problems emerging from the territory. In particular the aim is to understand whether it is possible to evaluate the potentialities of the territory, i.e. its tangible and intangible resources, and build on them territorial networks able to activate processes of local self-sustainable development. The first part of the paper seeks to explore the theoretical link among reticular models, the territorial capital and local self-sustainable development. In the central part we propose a possible methodological approach for the construction of territorial networks based on existing resources and potentialities. In the final section, we apply the theoretical model to the case study of the district of Sibiu (Romania) in order to verify if the area of Valea Hartibaciului is really a territorial network whose identifying characteristics can be seen as a development opportunity. Finally, we try to define what are the limits of the proposed model and what are the future job prospects.

Marginality and/or Centrality of the Open Spaces in the Strategies for Upgrading the Energy Efficiency of the City

The control of the institutions and planners on the expansion processes has been recently lacked, above all in terms of quality and functionality. Institutions and planners have not be able to build social spaces that had the same strong identity of the historic and consolidated city, though recognizing that the search for socializing has changed and the meaning of urban spaces are changing.

G.I.S. to support environmental sustainability in manufacturing areas. case study of the apulian region in southern italy

This work addresses the potential of using Geographic Information Systems (G.I.S.) to support urban planning. In the case in point, the tool has been adopted to carry out a census of all the manufacturing plants in the Apulian Region, in the context of a working agreement between the Apulian Regional Board and the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning of Bari Polytechnic. After analysing the need to identify territorial governance systems that can support sustainable management of industrial areas, the work illustrates the data collection methods, how the dedicated Geodatabase structure was set up, what data were collected and some analyses that could then be made. In conclusion, the potential of using G.I.S for urban planning in manufacturing areas is discussed, as well as some critical elements. Among these, the need for continual data updating to fully exploit this potential is underlined.

Geographical and Multi-criteria Approach for Hydro-geological Risk Evaluation in Decision Making Processes

The catastrophes occurring in recent years and a changed awareness not only among “experts” but in the whole society of the reasons for hydro-geological calamities are in fact pointing out the urgency of a correct policy for the prevention of hydro-geological risk and the development of more adequate systems for forecasting disasters. In the light of a problem of this entity, it is necessary to act on two fronts: careful planning and programming of the use of territorial resources, as well as setting up decision making support systems that can improve the efficiency of the actions taken. In this paper the topic of planning in areas with hydro - geological risk is deal with, through the implementation of two different methodologies: the former is a probabilistic - quantitative one for the definition of the hydraulic dangerousness; the latter is a qualitative one (able to consider also social, economic, cultural and political aspects) for the definition of vulnerability considered as the ability of a territorial system to answer to the calamitous events.

Il ruolo del progetto urbano per la rigenerazione delle periferie: il caso della Puglia

A partire dall’analisi e da una possibile classificazione delle periferie della Regione Puglia, si e indagato il ruolo che in questi contesti territoriali marginali il progetto urbano assume, il quadro di obiettivi con i quali esso viene e puo essere concepito e utilizzato, la sua potenziale capacita di incidere sulla qualita dello spazio costruito, di rispondere alle domande della comunita locale o alle istanze dei singoli o delle famiglie.

Criteria for Choice and Evaluation Procedures: The Case of Urban Transport Infrastructures

This study stems from the technical-political debate around the building of two important urban roads that were intended to have considerable effects on the development of the two towns involved, Bari and Brindisi1. The argument which emerges is that, as the current economic crisis heralds an uncertain future, decisions in the transport sector, particularly about building new infrastructures traditionally intended for private-vehicle use, should be considered as essential premises for solving the problems that accompany social-economic and territorial development.