Mauro Francini

Evolved Frameworks for the Integrated Development of Territorial Services

In recent years, through the adoption of strategic planning processes, the main objective of cities and territories is that of becoming smart, it its different declinations, associating original, flexible ad intelligent technological processes. This work describes two researches that, starting from the common basic assumptions, have defined and created evolved frameworks that can generate “smart services” in support of integrated territorial development. The first study focuses on the definition of a usable platform in the ‘cloud’ environment with which integrated “smart services” can be developed. These smart services do not only promote the territory, thus creating value for the public administration as well as facilitating and stimulating the local economy; they also contribute to qualifying some specific management aspects such as those referring, for example, to the service of smart energy, or rather the optimisation, monitoring and remote regulation of production/consumption of energy even by means of service chains that involve manufacturers and service provider. The general objective of the second research, instead, consists of the necessity of providing services based on access to a geo-referenced database that is interoperable and predisposed to evolve towards new development scenarios, containing cartographic information associated with various information on info-mobility and road safety.

Urban reuse of public spaces in ‘central suburbs’. Two districts between two rivers in the city of Cosenza (Italy)

ABSTRACT The article describes the results of a research on the theme of regeneration of urban public spaces in historical centres. A multidisciplinary methodological approach of cooperation of various knowledge was adopted to define, also through the application of open and inclusive participatory approaches, precise intervention actions. The research uses two areas on the edge of the historical city of Cosenza (Italy) as a case study. The research, therefore, has achieved, among its main results, that of reinforcing the awareness that an urban context unable to maintain relationships loses its meaning and becomes but a museum of itself.

The Area Trademark for the Launch of Sustainable Processes of Smart Planning in Rural Areas

Since the task of urban planning and of the territorial government is also to promote development while maintaining recognition of the identity and the uniqueness of a particular area, this research project seeks to define and implement an Area Trademark (AT) to support the resources and potentialities of a given territorial context. This is achieved by implementing and providing a network of homogeneous, coordinated and complementary services that enable them to promote their identity and specific vocations. In line with the Europe 2020 Strategy and the regional and national programming documents, including the National Strategy of Internal Areas (NSIA), representing the subject of particular interest, our research aims, specifically, to create an Area Trademark in territorial contexts with a rural vocation. In particular, starting precisely from the rural vocation of the area and, therefore, from the rediscovery of agri-food production, from the reinterpretation in an environmentally sustainable key of both the environmental and cultural excellences present, this project seeks to increase the quality of services until they become an integral part of the landscape quality, focusing on the creation of an effective and efficient network of existing accommodation facilities.

Aree interne: un’importante ‘inclinazione’ territoriale per integrate politiche di coesione

Nella Strategia Europa 2020, la dimensione territoriale rappresenta un tema di particolare interesse che si riflette anche nei documenti programmatici nazionali e regionali della ‘Strategia per le aree interne’. Tali aree, considerate come il paradigma produttivo della green economy, vengono poste al centro di un nuovo modello di sviluppo economico sostenibile. A questo riguardo, si espongono i primi risultati di un progetto di ricerca volto a identificare interventi di sviluppo adeguati su una delle aree progetto-prototipo della Regione Calabria (territori follower), mediante la delineazione di ‘buone pratiche’ su territori definiti come front-runner, ovvero ‘portatori di esperienze’ positive su temi caratterizzanti alcuni obiettivi dello sviluppo locale. Tali prassi potranno essere integrate con i processi di partecipazione e co-progettazione previsti all’interno dei Piani di azioni

Urban Land Uses and Smart Mobility

The object of this work consists of the will to define a renewed relationship between spatial planning and transport systems, which focuses attention on road safety, whereas to date the studies on this relationship have mainly examined the transport impacts on land use. Therefore, in addition to the analysis of the physical characteristics of road infrastructure, there is a need to examine which urban land uses can generate points of risk, both in terms of attraction of vehicles and pedestrian flows as well as in terms of concentration of vulnerable road users, in order to organize a complete information and telecommunication system for road safety. In short, considering a specific testing ground, some urban land uses have been located, with relative dimensional analysis and characterization of access conditions in typological-functional terms: services (schools, healthcare structures, sports facilities); tertiary/production industry (wholesale, shopping centres, industrial sites); tourism sector (hotels, resorts, historical and cultural heritage). The collection of information, corresponding to mapping of prospective risk factors, represented the basis for the entry of specific data within a wider reference database.

Fruizioni immateriali per la promozione territoriale

Al fine di consentire ad un contesto territoriale di diventare competitivo e necessario che lo stesso promuova altresi la propria immagine con una presenza intelligente sul web (fruizione immateriale); l’obiettivo principale e quello di favorire la virtualizzazione del patrimonio territoriale restituendolo in rete come “bene comune” per i cittadini e per i visitatori, permettendo alle amministrazioni di internazionalizzare la conoscenza dello stesso bene e dell’intero territorio, nonche migliorando lo stato dell’arte sia in termini di ricaduta scientifica che di prodotto territoriale. Tale obiettivo di ricerca necessita l’adozione di tecniche avanzate, modelli condivisi di indicizzazione e identificazione univoca, utili a produrre anche percorsi e “mappature” tematiche in grado di rendere facilmente fruibile e di promuovere un’offerta territoriale coordinata ed intelligente, a garanzia di un facile accesso alla rete dei servizi in linea con le esigenze dei residenti e dei turisti, permettendo, contestualmente, agli stessi di interagire e di integrare direttamente le informazioni. Particolare riguardo, inoltre, deve essere riservato ai rapporti intercorrenti tra citta-campagna e tra aree interne-costa, anche al fine di ottimizzare delle connessioni tra il miglioramento dei bilanci energetici e ambientali dei territori e la gestione delle risorse naturalistiche e socio-culturali, secondo principi di equita e sostenibilita.