Luigi Fusco Girard

Integrated spatial assessment: a multicriteria approach to sustainable development of cultural and environmental heritage in San Marco dei Cavoti, Italy

Starting from the concept of “territory” and from the definition of “integrated assessment”, the paper defines the operational dimensions of spatial integrated assessment (ISA), applying it to the territorial context of San Marco dei Cavoti (a rural village in Southern Italy). In particular, the paper proposes an integration between analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and geographic information system (GIS) for the strategies definition of planning choices, recognizing the relevant role of the environmental aspects in the decision-making process and alternatives selection.

Sustainability, creativity, resilience: toward new development strategies of port areas through evaluation processes

Industrial-commercial and tourist ports areas are spaces of difference, rich in potential opportunities but also in contradictions and conflicts. The conservation of their particular landscape is very important for the city/region development, founded on a new metabolism. Port areas will become new spaces where creativity can be practised. Creative and resilient solutions are to be identified at a strategic, planning, design and management level to implement sustainability. Architecture can play a specific role, improving landscape quality and thus producing new values. The paper discusses how and under what conditions port areas can become an opportunity for the whole city development. Effective evaluation processes are suggested at the level of strategic, implementation and management planning to be able to combine tangible (hard) and intangible (soft) values.

Creative Evaluations for a Human Sustainable Planning

Evaluation should be conceived as having a relational nature, as a process based on interpretation and comparison and able to activate and develop relationships (among persons, among persons and their environment, etc.). Indeed, interpretation and comparison are key elements of critical thinking and therefore of cultural resilience. Creative evaluations combine hard and soft values, quantity and quality, specific interests and common good in innovative way. This is the fundamental characteristic of creative actions/projects/plans.

TOWARDS AN ECONOMIC IMPACT ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK FOR HISTORIC URBAN LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION AND REGENERATION PROJECTS

The Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) approach recognizes the landscape as a “living heritage” that reflects changes in society and contributes to local well-being. Investments in HUL conservation can improve overall urban productivity, generating multidimensional benefits and contributing to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how investments in HUL conservation/regeneration can enhance the economic performance of cities and regions. A set of 17 case studies of HUL regeneration has been analyzed to select relevant indicators for the assessment of the multidimensional impacts of culture-led regeneration projects. Indicators have been grouped into six categories of impacts that could be used in a multicriteria assessment framework for the impact assessment of HUL conservation/regeneration projects. Keywords: Historic Urban Landscape, economic performance, multicriteria evaluation

Il patrimonio culturale: strategie di conservazione integrata e valutazioni

To promote the human and sustainable development of our cities implies to recognize that human and social goals have a priority as respects to economic ones and to point out the strategies to adopt for an integrated approach. The good governance is the institutional condition and the critical element necessary to improve urban efficiency, participation and integrated urban planning. In such a context, the evaluations are useful tool to create monitoring device and to deduce from significant examples how to improve town planning/environmental/economic «action plan». Through the ex-post evaluations of some Best Practices of cultural and environmental heritage conservation, it is possible to understand how cultural, environmental, social and economic plus-values have been realized, with a special care for employment results and the activated financial and economic devices.

CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND CULTURAL HERITAGE/LANDSCAPE REGENERATION. CIRCULAR BUSINESS, FINANCING AND GOVERNANCE MODELS FOR A COMPETITIVE EUROPE

This paper explores the concept of circular economy and how it can be applied to cultural heritage and landscape regeneration, stimulating the experimentation of new circular business, financing and governance models in heritage conservation. Abandoned and underused heritage represent a resource that can enhance territorial multidimensional productivity, producing economic, social and environmental value. To turn under-exploited heritage from a social cost into a resource for sustainable development, while restoring and safeguarding its cultural and historical values, new evaluation tools are required to produce evidence of the costs and benefits of conservation options. The paper provides an overview of evaluation tools for the assessment of the impacts of heritage regeneration, drawing a pathway for research on cultural and natural heritage as the driver of sustainable growth. Keywords: circular economy, cultural heritage, circular city

THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY APPROACH FOR THE REGENERATION OF TORRE ANNUNZIATA PORT AREA

The UNESCO Recommendation on Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) calls for the identification of innovative models for cultural heritage conservation/regeneration. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how new models of the circular economy can restore cities identity, increasing the tangible and intangible values of the built heritage and reducing the costs of urban renewal. This theory is reinforced on the one side through some case studies and on the other side by an applicative case study. It concerns the regeneration of Torre Annunziata port area, a historic city in Southern Italy, endowed with a suggestive cultural and landscape heritage. Keywords: Historic Urban Landscape, circular economy, waterfront regeneration

VERSO IL PIANO STRATEGICO DI UNA CITTA’ STORICA: VITERBO

L’Amministrazione Comunale di Viterbo ha recentemente deliberato di dotarsi di un Piano Strategico che abbia come vision generale un migliore posizionamento territoriale della citta, fondato su collegamenti efficienti con le aree urbane forti, partendo dalla valorizzazione sinergica delle testimonianze archeologiche/architettoniche/culturali e delle risorse termali/naturalistiche. Si propone di fondare tale Piano Strategico sul modello della “citta rigenerativa”. La qualita del paesaggio viene ad essere interpretata come un catalizzatore/motore di una nuova dinamica economica, e cioe come la piu importante risorsa, capace di migliorare la capacita di attrazione della citta e di ricostruire legami e nuove relazioni, cioe processi circolari virtuosi , e quindi s inergie e simbiosi . La nozione di paesaggio urbano complesso si propone come interpretazione dell’approccio dell’Historic Urban Landscape (HUL), elaborato dall’UNESCO. Esso si attua attraverso una strategia spaziale, cioe una “strategia dei luoghi”, basata sulla rigenerazione della piazza, come luogo di processi di ibridazione. La piazza riflette il vero spirito della sostenibilita, che e la cultura dell’insieme, del tutto, dell’unita. Parole chiave: rigenerazione urbana, simbiosi, ibridazione