Piergiuseppe Pontrandolfi

Using Spatiotemporal Analysis in Urban Sprawl Assessment and Prediction

The importance of soil resource protection is now universally recognized, but despite a lot of debates and principles enunciation, in the last decades the soil was consumed at a rate of 8 m2 per second. In this paper a simulation model has been proposed based on two methods: Joint information uncertainty and Weights of Evidence in order to analyse and predict new built-up areas. The proposed model has been applied to Pisticci Municipality in Basilicata region (Southern Italy). This area is a significant example, because of high landscape values and, at the same time, of a lot of developing pressure due to touristic activities along the coastal zone.

Open Data for Territorial Specialization Assessment Territorial Specialization in Attracting Local Development Funds: an Assessment. Procedure Based on Open Data and Open Tools

The New Cohesion Policy opens to an integrated place-based approach for the improvement of territorial and social cohesion. The issue of territorial impact assessment of regional development policies highlight that data availability, open access to datasets in “near real-time”, participation, knowledge sharing, assumed importance within the development planning process. The contribution of ‘open data’ appears to be mature and in this paper we present an application of spatial analysis techniques for the evaluation of spatial effects of EU funds starting form open data by open-coesione. The application regards an internal areas of Basilicata Region: the Agri Valley. A complex contests in which an environmental and agricultural traditional vocation conflicts with a recent development of oil extraction industries. Conclusions regard further applications and perspectives for improving and supporting regional development planning considering the exploitation of open data sources and spatial analysis.

Sustainable Urban Regeneration Policy Making: Inclusive Participation Practice

In physical and economic planning at both urban and regional scale, the role of participation is a key element of the planning process. Participation is often linked to organization forms (we call it “structures of participation”) that find a heterogeneous applications in the Urban Center model. This work analyses the first results of Project CAST (Active Citizenship for Sustainable Development of Territory), especially those related to the neighbourhood of Poggio Tre Galli in Potenza (Italy), where the test of a traditional/technological participatory approach has allowed the development of urban regeneration scenarios characterized by an inclusive approach “Citizens centred”. This is an operative contribution in terms of Inclusive Smart Planning, and so of evolutionary 2.0 approaches oriented to an inclusive and participative urban management through ICT tools. A singular feature of the ICT platform developed during the project CAST is the integration of management tools and streaming analysis of the main social networks with a SDI. The experience, described both in quantitative terms and as a strategic design of urban regeneration at neighbourhood scale, shows from one hand the request of bottom-up contributions, especially from institutions (i.e. Municipality), on the other hand, the need to test effective solutions to balance the commitment to manage and configure complex information systems according to quality results. Research perspectives look at the definition of web-assisted procedures for the participation in urban and territorial government choices that can reinforce bottom-up practices such as DSS, starting from ICT tools tested during the project CAST.

Making urban regeneration feasible: Tools and procedures to integrate urban agenda and UE cohesion regional programs

Attention to “participation” as an inclusive form for redesign and urban regeneration represents the interesting news of the national and international urban planning debate. In the plurality of experiences and approaches produced, this work tends to highlight the originalities of the approach developed within the CAST project at Potenza.

Citizen Participation and Technologies: The C.A.S.T. Architecture

The role of the participation has assumed a key dimension in all processes of physical planning and economic planning in the urban scale to the regional scale. Technological innovation, the spread of internet and mobile, have generated significant innovations compared to the models of management of participatory processes and interaction with communities and citizens. A critical element of strong within these processes is the ability to manage the information produced by the community (real and / or virtual) in order to develop guidelines and shared visions for the city and the territory. The paper analyses this issue in reference to a project proposal aimed at the development of participatory processes multi-scalar within the Project CAST (Active Citizenship for Sustainable Development of the Territory), selected by the Region Basilicata inside of a contract for the development of innovative and creative activities. The project aims to develop creative and innovative processes in the planning of the city and the territory they see the broad involvement of the population and local actors. The proposal is a first contribution to the operating institution of “Urban Center” in the two main urban centers of the Region Basilicata: Potenza and Matera “European Capital of Culture - 2019”. This is attributable to a 2.0 approach the ability of citizens to define the project of the territory in which they live and work, contributing to the definition of a scenario shared for the promotion of local development projects and the development of urban regeneration policies.

From urban labs in the city to urban labs on the web

This paper reports an experience of planning participation, lead during 2010, with the objective to adopt traditional and innovative forms of participation, in the context of planning process simulation. The experience aimed at enhancing confidence in spatial planning processes, in a context where participation is not yet a custom. Some months later, a new attempt has been lead, to enlarge the set of adopted tools and test some electronic tools for e-valuation, asking citizens to involve other citizens, in order to enlarge the community.

Urban Regeneration for a Sustainable and Resilient City: An Experimentation in Matera

In urban policies, Italian and European, the urban regeneration of residential districts, especially suburbs built in post-war urban expansions, has been a crucial question since the 1990s. An integrated approach is now essential for effective urban redevelopment programs, which consider not only architectural and urban, but also social, economic, naturalistic-environmental and cultural aspects, in order to return dignity, identity and centrality to the marginal areas that today express tangible and intangible forms of urban unease. The development in recent decades of innovative tools such as complex programs, social housing, therefore, marks the transition to a new way of urban planning, characterized by a different approach to urban and territorial policies, aimed at integrating a plurality of functions and typologies of intervention and that contemplates the possibility to involve private operators and private financial resources for the realization of public works. The paper presents a case study as a best practice approach to urban regeneration.

The Role of Intermediate Territories for New Sustainable Planning and Governance Approaches. Criteria and Requirements for Determining Multi-municipal Dimension: South Italy Case

In a context like the Italian one, in which the pulverization of Municipalities, the hyper-territorialization and the inadequacy of the current administrative network are the cause of ineffective and inefficient public policies, the paper investigates the close relationship between institutional and economic-territorial policies, through a comprehensive re-reading of the system of the organization of local authorities in Italy aimed, on the basis of some reading and interpretation criteria adopted, to identify more relevant territorial morphologies to ensure more advanced and effective forms of representation and government. The aim is to experiment with a possible methodology for reading the territories able to respond to the need to adapt the territorial structure of local authorities to the new challenges of modernity and economic-productive innovation and to the rescaling induced by globalization. A contribution to the process, still in progress, on the rules and principles according to which municipalities should join in functional, areas or networks, able to govern territories and promote conditions of greater sustainability in local development processes (1).