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Sustainable Development Goals and Performance Measurement of Positive Energy District: A Methodological Approach
2021
The “Positive Energy Districts and Neighbourhoods for Sustainable Urban Development” program launched by the European Union can be considered a milestone towards the clean energy transition and carbon neutrality of urban areas. The achievement of this ambitious transition requires properly defined methodologies and action plans grounded on the main environmental, economic, and social pillars of sustainability. This paper is focused on the definition of a methodology for the characterization of PEDs sustainability assessment in terms of Sustainable Development Goals. In particular, the main research question to be answered regards the allocation of the surplus energy of PEDs to target the su…
Municipal Building Regulations for Energy Efficiency in Southern Italy
2014
The building sector is still one of the most energy consuming sectors in Italy, like developed countries in Europe. At European level, the main policy driver related to the energy use in buildings is the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD, 2002/91/EC) and its recast. Through the EPBD in- troduction, requirements for certification, inspections, training or renovation are now imposed in Member States. In order to fulfill the expected changes, local regulations are a key factor aiming at sustainable territorial planning. It is thus required support the issue of local rules at municipal level in order to guide local administrators and technicians and to limit discretional power of …
La rigenerazione urbana di Aalborg : un modello di sviluppo sostenibile per il futuro delle città
2022
Uno dei maggiori eventi che ha portato la città di Aalborg, capoluogo dello Jutland settentrionale, alla ribalta internazionale è stato lo svolgimento della prima conferenza europea sulle città sostenibili (European Conference on Sustainable Cities and Towns). Nel 1994 il Consiglio internazionale per le iniziative ambientali locali (ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability) ha scelto Aalborg per riflettere in che modo le città, principali responsabili del cambiamento climatico, del consumo delle risorse del pianeta e dell’inquinamento ambientale, potessero cambiare i loro trend di sviluppo per indirizzarli verso una dimensione più sostenibile. Alla conferenza, che si è svolta sotto il p…
Urban Planning and Technological Innovation
2017
Over the years, city and territory have been transformed disproportionately and the planning appears to have lost control over the dynamics of the events that, unfortunately, have caused indelible changes on urban and environmental systems. The reworking of alphanumeric and geographic data through the territorial information system can be useful as technical support and methodological knowledge capable of intervening and redeveloping the residential centers. In fact, cities and their dynamics can be visualized with tools and machinery capable of representing them in a graphic or schematic way. This study presents some Italian experiences of urban renewal made possible by territorial informa…
Utopia e distopia nel progetto digitale
2020
Sono passati più di venti anni dalla pubblicazione di Being Digital, il celebre libro di Nicholas Negroponte, all’interno del quale il fondatore del MIT Media Lab affermava che “il passaggio dagli atomi ai bit è irreversibile e inarrestabile”. Tale preannunciata rivoluzione, sembra oggi giunta a una fase più matura coinvolgendo sia la sfera pubblica che quella privata, le professioni, la politica e l’economia. Il digitale, facilitando e razionalizzando di giorno in giorno processi precedentemente analogici, è diventato ubiquo. Se da un lato gli aspetti positivi di queste trasformazioni sono evidenti, altrettanto palesi appaiono le aporie: dalla dipendenza tecnologica al rapporto con i socia…
Dissesto idrogeologico e urban eco-planning. Una proposta per contrastare la fragilità del territorio urbano di Agrigento
2017
I più recenti fenomeni naturali calamitosi che hanno interessato l’Italia si sono verificati in concomitanza di anomali cambiamenti climatici la cui causa è il riscaldamento globale. Il V rapporto dell’IPCC 2014 afferma che il global warming è determinato dalle attività antropiche. A livello mondiale, l’Italia è realmente minacciato dalla “desertificazione” per circa 1/5 del territorio nazionale, soprattutto al Sud: la Sicilia con una percentuale del 70% risulta, in tal senso, la regione più a rischio (“Convegno sulla siccità”, CNR per Expo 2015). Con l’innalzamento delle temperature si ha una diminuzione delle precipitazioni e un aumento dell’intensità delle stesse con pericolo di dissesto…
Refstie, Hilde. 2018. Voicing Noise — Action Research with Informal Settlement Groups in Malawi.
2018
In the thesis, Hilde Refstie explores the space for transformative participation within participatory urban planning practices in Malawi. The more specific research questions are (p. 22): ‘What are...
Appropriateness between physical space and multicentre economic space in localization problems
1991
Location models are constructed in mathematical economic spaces whereas people locate themselves in real or physical spaces. If economic spaces are multicentric ones, their properties are different from physical spaces. We say that these two spaces are not symmetric. Hence, mathematical location model can lead to an optimal location solution which doesn't' exist in physical space. But, if we admit that an optimal location solution owns more or less to a function of demand of location, we can resolve this question. Then, fuzzy demand functions of location are defined in multicentric spaces and an illustration of this concept is presented.
How information shapes cities : theory and facts
1999
The primary aim of this paper is to show that « information matters » in shaping space and cities. This statement has both theoretical and empirical foundations. Theoretical reasoning, especially on the basis of economic geography modelling, is able to provide consistent and realistic explanations for the agglomeration of information using activities including producer services and R&D. Empirical testing of these models raises a number of methodological problems. Nevertheless, many empirical studies have been conducted into the local character of the diffusion of tacit information. Over the last ten years, much progress has been made, and initial difficulties are progressively being overcom…
Los caminos de la gobernanza, Expo Zaragoza 2008 España
2005
Am 16. Dezember 2004 wählte das Bureau international des expositions (B.I.E.) Spanien und seine Kandidatenstadt, die Metropole Saragossa, als Organisationsland für die nächste internationale Ausstellung „International Exhibition of Zaragoza Spain 2008: Water and Sustainable Development“. Wir analysieren zunächst die Entwicklung "der Wege" der Kandidaturen zur Wahl der Gastgeberstadt der Internationalen Ausstellung 2008, dann greifen wir in einem zweiten Mal den gesamten Vorgang der Ausarbeitung, Begründung und Durchführung der Internationalen Ausstellung 2008 in Saragossa auf im Kontext der Globalisierung neue städtische Formen und Formen des Regierens hervorbringen, indem alle finanziellen…