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Papers by Carmelo Maria Torre
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2013
Real-world phenomena have traditionally been modelled in 2D/3D GIS. However, powerful insights ca... more Real-world phenomena have traditionally been modelled in 2D/3D GIS. However, powerful insights can be gained by integrating additional non-spatial dimensions, such as time and scale. While this integration to form higher-dimensional objects is theoretically sound, its implementation is problematic since the data models used in GIS are not appropriate. In this paper, we present our research on one possible data model/structure to represent higher-dimensional GIS datasets: generalised maps. It is formally defined, but is not directly applicable for the specific needs of GIS data, e.g. support for geometry, overlapping and disconnected regions, holes, complex handling of attributes, etc. We review the properties of generalised maps, discuss needs to be modified for higher-dimensional GIS, and describe the modifications and extensions that we have made to generalised maps. We conclude with where this research fits within our long term goal of a higher dimensional GIS, and present an outlook on future research.
Loreto Colombo: Il metodo in urbanistica, tradizione e rinnovamento nel Piano
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications ICCSA 2014 - Volume 8584
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Computational Science and Its Applications - Volume 1
From the District Model to an Analysis by Specializations, Concentrations and Productive Clusters: The Localization of Economic Activities in Puglia
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2018
The application of multivariate techniques is widely used if you want to study phenomena or proce... more The application of multivariate techniques is widely used if you want to study phenomena or processes characterized by numerous variables that work simultaneously in time and space. The present contribution - with a view to using spatial statistical tools - intends to focus on the economic and production identities and vocations of Puglia, attempting to highlight inter-institutional relations and relationships. Thus, on the basis of the analysis of territorial and economic indicators, it has been proposed to hypothesize clusters as potential reference points and adequate functional tools for the planning and adoption of effective and appropriate regional policies of intervention.
L. Sandercock. Towards Cosmopolis, Planning the Multicultural City (recensione)
Assessing the Effect of Land Use Planning on Soil Savings by SEA
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2017
The paper tells about the activity of the Observatory for Soil Saving at the MITO Lab of Bari Pol... more The paper tells about the activity of the Observatory for Soil Saving at the MITO Lab of Bari Polytechnic, with special regard to one piece of a research project, named cs@monitor, devoted at studying the effectiveness of planning regulation against excessive urban expansion. The cs@monitor Project is aiming to support policy of soil preservation, in the context of the Apulian Region. Coherently with such aim, the paper shows a meta-appraisal of regulations and evaluation in land-use planning, referring not only to the articulations of plans and norms, but attempting to consider as well a most truthful analysis of the state of soils, devoted to discover countermeasures versus the process pressure-fragility-impact described in SEA procedure. The main scope is the discover of the potential of analyzing land-take as first step of Environmental Assessment of Urban Plans, as frequently discussed in literature [1, 2, 3].
L'esperienza raccontata si è maturata nell'ambito dell'Osservatorio sul risparmio di suolo del la... more L'esperienza raccontata si è maturata nell'ambito dell'Osservatorio sul risparmio di suolo del laboratorio MITO del Politecnico di Bari. Il consumo di suolo viene espresso come misura del territorio urbanizzato a giacitura del suolo occupato dall'edificazione e dalle infrastrutture. Nelle operazioni di mappatura la rappresentazione spaziale dell'indice di densità sull'impermeabilizzazione non si è basata su una logica binaria, ma sulla gradazione reale della superficie degli elementi geografici minimi di supporto. La catalogazione di elementi spaziali, l'elaborazione e il monitoraggio dei dati hanno reso possibile perimetrare le aree "libere", intese come quelle parti del territorio non inficiate dal consumo di suolo, non tutelate e non vincolate dai piani sovraordinati a quello comunale, così da prevedere la possibile futura espansione urbana. La prospettiva di realizzare uno Spatial Decision Support System, consentirà di costruire le politiche alternative di risparmio di suolo; il livello di precisione dell'analisi varia in funzione del punto di equilibrio che viene trovato tra comunicazione expert oriented e comunicazione sociale del problema, sottolineando l'impossibilità di ritenerli strumenti sufficienti per lo studio e la valutazione delle alternative.
Post-normal Rationality in Assessment of Environmental Damage and Environmental Risk
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2018
The concern about the effects of environmental pollution, due to industries, energy extraction, w... more The concern about the effects of environmental pollution, due to industries, energy extraction, waste, that has been spread into the society and increase the behavioral change of citizens. The paper tells about the environmental conflict that affects South of Italy, since the ‘90s, starting from the pollution due to steel industry, carbon power-stations, drilling and piping gas or petroleum. The conflict arose at the highest political level of discussion, by involving political and judiciary power. The perception of risk changed among people living near the work place since a long time, but exploited in the last decade.
Prospect of Integrate Monitoring: A Multidimensional Approach
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2012
The paper shows as" Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)” can be considered as a... more The paper shows as" Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)” can be considered as an essential “decision support system", supported by a systematic process for evaluating the environmental issues of plans and programs. It is shown how in coastal areas, with strong characters of mutability, the assessment procedure must be able to adapt environmental protection and local development and monitoring of feedbacks assumes critical importance. The issues of monitoring and modeling with spatial data infrastructure have been applied ...
Buildings, Jul 27, 2017
In this research, the socioeconomic determinants of housing market values have been examined, hig... more In this research, the socioeconomic determinants of housing market values have been examined, highlighting their respective contributions to the formation of the property prices and, in particular, verifying the property tax liability. The property tax is a factor that could determine, through modest fluctuations, the revival of the property demand, generating positive effects also on the construction sector, which has been currently affected by the negative real estate contingency. The functional correlations of housing prices with the main socioeconomic variables considered (i.e., housing rents, household incomes, household consumptions, property taxes, population and mean population age) have been explained through an econometric analysis implemented with an innovative methodology that uses multi-objective genetic algorithms. The analysis is contextualized to the Apulia region in the South of Italy, and the population of the sample studied consists of 258 individuals, corresponding to the municipalities of the region. In particular, the data collected for each variable considered refer to two different moments, that is, the year 2011 and the year 2015, in order to take into account the fiscal tightening that has occurred in Italy in this period of time. The elaborations carried out have allowed us to enucleate interesting functional relationships between property prices and the explanatory variables considered.
Sustainability, Feb 27, 2017
This paper experiments with some costs-benefit analyses, seeking a balance between soil-take and ... more This paper experiments with some costs-benefit analyses, seeking a balance between soil-take and buildability due to land policy and management. The activities have been carried out inside the MITO lab (Lab for Multimedia Information for Territorial Objects) of the Polytechnic University of Bari. Reports have been produced about the Southern Italian Apulia Region, which is rich in farmland and coastline, often invaded by construction, with a severe loss of nature, a degradation of the soil, landscape, and ecosystem services. A methodological approach to the assessment of sustainability of urban expansion related, on one hand, to "plus values" deriving from the transformation of urban fringes and, on the other hand to the analysis of the transition of land-use, with the aim of "saving soil" against urban sprawl. The loss of natural and agricultural surfaces due to the expanding artificial lands is an unsustainable character of urban development, especially in the manner in which it was carried out in past decades. We try to assess how plus value can be considered "unearned", and to understand if the "land value recapture" can compensate for the negative environmental effects of urban expansion. We measured the transition from farmlands and natural habitat to urbanization with the support of the use of some Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools, in favor of a new artificial land cover in the region of Apulia, Southern Italy. Data have been collected at the regional scale and at the local level, producing information about land use change and increases of property values due to improvements, referring to the 258 municipalities of the region. Looking at the results of our measurements, we started an interpretation of the driving forces that favor the plus values due to the transition of land-use. Compensation, easements, recapture of plus value, and improvement are, nowadays in Italy, discussed as major land-policy tools for managing environmental and landscape preservation. The interplay between urban economics and environmentally sound regulations reveals some controversial issues in urban governance and nature preservation: perhaps some abstract regulations, conjoined with non-case-oriented urban policies, consider these keywords as the old chemists considered the Philosopher's Stone. The analyses show criticality emerging themes in emblematic cases, studied in some municipal contexts.
Performance Evaluation of Waste Materials in Construction for Sustainability
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2018
Construction and demolition (C&D) materials cause a major contribution in waste management. F... more Construction and demolition (C&D) materials cause a major contribution in waste management. For this reason, due to the wide possibility to re-introduce waste materials from C&D in the building production cycle, it appears reasonable a reflection of the ratio cost/performance to create a more sustainable production chain in the construction market. In this paper it is described an experimental approach for testing performance of waste materials, combined with a multidimensional indicator of performance of construction components derived for the recycle and the reuse of C&D. The materials analyzed in this experiment are based on gypsum, that is to say one major component of pre-cast panels, plaster and bricks. In detail, the research work studies the viability and effects of using recycled aggregates from C&D waste (i.e. expanded polystyrene (EPS), ceramic and concrete waste) in a gypsum matrix to manufacture new gypsum components for interior partitions and inner layers of facades and as coating material. The paper shows not only the way to test materials, but also the way to find the economic advantage, expressed in terms of cost-performance ratio in a multicriterial assessment.
Experimenting CIE and CBA in Urban Restoration
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2017
The Community impact evaluation (CIE) is a multi-actor methodology of evaluation: its goal is to ... more The Community impact evaluation (CIE) is a multi-actor methodology of evaluation: its goal is to identify the convenience of actions/projects, as part of urban policies, according to the Social preferable expressed by different members of the community affected by the policy itself. It traces a methodological approach for the preparation of a social report distributed in the plan’s policies. His first methodological application was developed as Planning Balance Sheet in the early sixties, in order to give an answer to the need to overcome the Cost-benefit analysis limit constituted by the failure to evaluate the distributive effects of interventions. Lichfield [1] distinguishes between different social categories those involved in an active way (promoters) or passive (users) in the implementation of an intervention, in different ways. These different modes of involvement are defined by the nature of the different advantages of which each group can enjoy and disadvantages that each group can undergo. They play an active role of the producers, who participate in the implementation of the intervention. instead play a “passive” users, who do not participate in the production process. A first way to determine the distribution effects is therefore to build many budgets disaggregated as there are groups affected by the policy of recovery. If the benefits and costs identified for each social group were all liquidated the procedure would be to build a series of indicators of economic convenience. (Net Present Value and Internal Return Rate) estimated budget for the costs benefits of all the groups involved [2].
Analysis of Fuzzyness in Spatial Variation of Real Estate Market: Some Italian Case Studies
Smart innovation, systems and technologies, 2010
Abstract. The paper shows a method aiming at giving a measure of fuzzyness referring to the chang... more Abstract. The paper shows a method aiming at giving a measure of fuzzyness referring to the change of real estate value from an area to another one belonging to the same urban context. This measure is based on Munda's “Semantic distance”(1997). Such measure is considered helpful to validate the traditional subdivision of the city by the Italian Cadastral System in the so-called" cadastral census section". The paper starts explaining the cadastral approach that guides the partition of an urban area, according to the hypothesis of ...
Gentrification and Sport. Football Stadiums and Changes in the Urban Rent
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2018
In this paper we examine the changes in terms of urban rent and urban planning occurring after th... more In this paper we examine the changes in terms of urban rent and urban planning occurring after the introduction on the Italian law of 21 June 2017, n. 96 on Football stadiums property and management. Such law is actually paving the way to a set of new and still unexplored consequences on urban rents and urban renewal processes and real estate markets, as well as in terms of new patterns of urban behaviors. In detail, changes deal with the times strictly related to sport events, well scheduled in time (peak events), and those related to the ordinary life of the area (off peak events) as retail, transport and leisure/residential activities, often now coupled with the presence of such sport facilities. We briefly analyze some few Italian cases of football stadiums renewals, especially looking at those settled in cities hosting premier league clubs. We looked also at consequences they had in terms of urban rent, urban services. After, we started considering the possible implications that such investments can have on the cities that are likely to host such renewal processes in the near future, trying to highlight some possible changes in the “hedonic price” asset, and suggestions in terms of policy aimed at igniting a ‘good’ gentrification process.
A Fuzzy Multi-criteria Decision Model for the Regeneration of the Urban Peripheries
Smart innovation, systems and technologies, May 19, 2018
The regeneration of the urban peripheral areas is undoubtedly among the most complex issues with ... more The regeneration of the urban peripheral areas is undoubtedly among the most complex issues with which the Public Administrations are currently facing. Different interests, often conflicting, coming from citizens, entrepreneurs and stakeholders, focus on these areas. In the present research a fuzzy multi-criteria decision model is proposed, as support of the Public Administration in the analysis of different scenarios, referred to different temporal moments. The application to four different urban peripheries located in the metropolitan area of Rome (Italy) highlights the potentialities of this model. The representation of the results through a radar diagram and a histogram makes them easily intelligible also by non-expert subjects.
Earth System Dynamics Discussions, Jan 28, 2013
During the centuries, the seaside has represented a crucial pole for future human development and... more During the centuries, the seaside has represented a crucial pole for future human development and civilization. The use of the sea for transport and trade and the overwhelming availability of food derived from coastal waters have encouraged and strengthened the growth of urban settlements. In the same time, the human pressure menaces to destroy coastal habitats and consequently their carrying capacity that allows for many essential functions. Low-impact activities are often replaced, on the surface, by new intensive ones that are attractive in the short term, but that in the long term undermine by reducing the resilience of the coast. It is clear that, in a perspective of sustainable development, economically efficient and socially equitable use of coastal areas need to be supported inside strategies to correct these weaknesses. The definition of such strategies and their implementation in the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is an essential tool for supporting decisions and of monitoring. The issues of monitoring, more in particular, have been the subject of study and modelling by the use of Dynamic Spatial Data Analysis (DSDA), in the case of the SEA of the Coastal Plan of the Italian Apulia Region, as an information instrument for regulating the anthropogenic changes; a possibility to implement the analysis of environmental sensitivity and propensity to Coastal erosion has been explored, in order to control the level of human pressure on land. The monitoring system should provide an automatic "alert" when the dimension and the velocity of the change of land use overpass some threshold of environmental pressure.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2010
The paper show the use of a fuzzy weighting system to identify the correspondence of real estate ... more The paper show the use of a fuzzy weighting system to identify the correspondence of real estate value with main socio-physical characters of the urban tissue. The descriptor of the relationship with the real estate value is represented by a set of indicators of the urban decay of housing property and the analysis is tested on a real application of a case study. The study gives support to the development of new approach for localizing cadastral values at a more detailed scale, compared to the current scale used in the Italian Cadastre. The utilized statistical approach has been based on the SaTScan application, as a techniques of fuzzy clustering, and on a test of stability based on the comparison of a "fuzzy semantic distance" among the average real estate values of urban quarters, with the expected crisp distance among the same quarters.
The Use of Ahp in a Multiactor Evaluation for Urban Development Programs: A Case Study
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2012
The story of public policies and urban development plans is characterized by continuous deals, is... more The story of public policies and urban development plans is characterized by continuous deals, is affected by an dynamic institutional counterbalance among actors, a political re-formulation of actions that relevantly reduce the affordability of forecasts of success. The interaction among different actors affects the designed path of change, and the negotiation can change strategies, can accelerate or delay pieces of the predicted urban development and consequently modify the flow of positive/negative economic effect, according to the ...
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2013
Real-world phenomena have traditionally been modelled in 2D/3D GIS. However, powerful insights ca... more Real-world phenomena have traditionally been modelled in 2D/3D GIS. However, powerful insights can be gained by integrating additional non-spatial dimensions, such as time and scale. While this integration to form higher-dimensional objects is theoretically sound, its implementation is problematic since the data models used in GIS are not appropriate. In this paper, we present our research on one possible data model/structure to represent higher-dimensional GIS datasets: generalised maps. It is formally defined, but is not directly applicable for the specific needs of GIS data, e.g. support for geometry, overlapping and disconnected regions, holes, complex handling of attributes, etc. We review the properties of generalised maps, discuss needs to be modified for higher-dimensional GIS, and describe the modifications and extensions that we have made to generalised maps. We conclude with where this research fits within our long term goal of a higher dimensional GIS, and present an outlook on future research.
Loreto Colombo: Il metodo in urbanistica, tradizione e rinnovamento nel Piano
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications ICCSA 2014 - Volume 8584
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Computational Science and Its Applications - Volume 1
From the District Model to an Analysis by Specializations, Concentrations and Productive Clusters: The Localization of Economic Activities in Puglia
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2018
The application of multivariate techniques is widely used if you want to study phenomena or proce... more The application of multivariate techniques is widely used if you want to study phenomena or processes characterized by numerous variables that work simultaneously in time and space. The present contribution - with a view to using spatial statistical tools - intends to focus on the economic and production identities and vocations of Puglia, attempting to highlight inter-institutional relations and relationships. Thus, on the basis of the analysis of territorial and economic indicators, it has been proposed to hypothesize clusters as potential reference points and adequate functional tools for the planning and adoption of effective and appropriate regional policies of intervention.
L. Sandercock. Towards Cosmopolis, Planning the Multicultural City (recensione)
Assessing the Effect of Land Use Planning on Soil Savings by SEA
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2017
The paper tells about the activity of the Observatory for Soil Saving at the MITO Lab of Bari Pol... more The paper tells about the activity of the Observatory for Soil Saving at the MITO Lab of Bari Polytechnic, with special regard to one piece of a research project, named cs@monitor, devoted at studying the effectiveness of planning regulation against excessive urban expansion. The cs@monitor Project is aiming to support policy of soil preservation, in the context of the Apulian Region. Coherently with such aim, the paper shows a meta-appraisal of regulations and evaluation in land-use planning, referring not only to the articulations of plans and norms, but attempting to consider as well a most truthful analysis of the state of soils, devoted to discover countermeasures versus the process pressure-fragility-impact described in SEA procedure. The main scope is the discover of the potential of analyzing land-take as first step of Environmental Assessment of Urban Plans, as frequently discussed in literature [1, 2, 3].
L'esperienza raccontata si è maturata nell'ambito dell'Osservatorio sul risparmio di suolo del la... more L'esperienza raccontata si è maturata nell'ambito dell'Osservatorio sul risparmio di suolo del laboratorio MITO del Politecnico di Bari. Il consumo di suolo viene espresso come misura del territorio urbanizzato a giacitura del suolo occupato dall'edificazione e dalle infrastrutture. Nelle operazioni di mappatura la rappresentazione spaziale dell'indice di densità sull'impermeabilizzazione non si è basata su una logica binaria, ma sulla gradazione reale della superficie degli elementi geografici minimi di supporto. La catalogazione di elementi spaziali, l'elaborazione e il monitoraggio dei dati hanno reso possibile perimetrare le aree "libere", intese come quelle parti del territorio non inficiate dal consumo di suolo, non tutelate e non vincolate dai piani sovraordinati a quello comunale, così da prevedere la possibile futura espansione urbana. La prospettiva di realizzare uno Spatial Decision Support System, consentirà di costruire le politiche alternative di risparmio di suolo; il livello di precisione dell'analisi varia in funzione del punto di equilibrio che viene trovato tra comunicazione expert oriented e comunicazione sociale del problema, sottolineando l'impossibilità di ritenerli strumenti sufficienti per lo studio e la valutazione delle alternative.
Post-normal Rationality in Assessment of Environmental Damage and Environmental Risk
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2018
The concern about the effects of environmental pollution, due to industries, energy extraction, w... more The concern about the effects of environmental pollution, due to industries, energy extraction, waste, that has been spread into the society and increase the behavioral change of citizens. The paper tells about the environmental conflict that affects South of Italy, since the ‘90s, starting from the pollution due to steel industry, carbon power-stations, drilling and piping gas or petroleum. The conflict arose at the highest political level of discussion, by involving political and judiciary power. The perception of risk changed among people living near the work place since a long time, but exploited in the last decade.
Prospect of Integrate Monitoring: A Multidimensional Approach
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2012
The paper shows as" Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)” can be considered as a... more The paper shows as" Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)” can be considered as an essential “decision support system", supported by a systematic process for evaluating the environmental issues of plans and programs. It is shown how in coastal areas, with strong characters of mutability, the assessment procedure must be able to adapt environmental protection and local development and monitoring of feedbacks assumes critical importance. The issues of monitoring and modeling with spatial data infrastructure have been applied ...
Buildings, Jul 27, 2017
In this research, the socioeconomic determinants of housing market values have been examined, hig... more In this research, the socioeconomic determinants of housing market values have been examined, highlighting their respective contributions to the formation of the property prices and, in particular, verifying the property tax liability. The property tax is a factor that could determine, through modest fluctuations, the revival of the property demand, generating positive effects also on the construction sector, which has been currently affected by the negative real estate contingency. The functional correlations of housing prices with the main socioeconomic variables considered (i.e., housing rents, household incomes, household consumptions, property taxes, population and mean population age) have been explained through an econometric analysis implemented with an innovative methodology that uses multi-objective genetic algorithms. The analysis is contextualized to the Apulia region in the South of Italy, and the population of the sample studied consists of 258 individuals, corresponding to the municipalities of the region. In particular, the data collected for each variable considered refer to two different moments, that is, the year 2011 and the year 2015, in order to take into account the fiscal tightening that has occurred in Italy in this period of time. The elaborations carried out have allowed us to enucleate interesting functional relationships between property prices and the explanatory variables considered.
Sustainability, Feb 27, 2017
This paper experiments with some costs-benefit analyses, seeking a balance between soil-take and ... more This paper experiments with some costs-benefit analyses, seeking a balance between soil-take and buildability due to land policy and management. The activities have been carried out inside the MITO lab (Lab for Multimedia Information for Territorial Objects) of the Polytechnic University of Bari. Reports have been produced about the Southern Italian Apulia Region, which is rich in farmland and coastline, often invaded by construction, with a severe loss of nature, a degradation of the soil, landscape, and ecosystem services. A methodological approach to the assessment of sustainability of urban expansion related, on one hand, to "plus values" deriving from the transformation of urban fringes and, on the other hand to the analysis of the transition of land-use, with the aim of "saving soil" against urban sprawl. The loss of natural and agricultural surfaces due to the expanding artificial lands is an unsustainable character of urban development, especially in the manner in which it was carried out in past decades. We try to assess how plus value can be considered "unearned", and to understand if the "land value recapture" can compensate for the negative environmental effects of urban expansion. We measured the transition from farmlands and natural habitat to urbanization with the support of the use of some Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools, in favor of a new artificial land cover in the region of Apulia, Southern Italy. Data have been collected at the regional scale and at the local level, producing information about land use change and increases of property values due to improvements, referring to the 258 municipalities of the region. Looking at the results of our measurements, we started an interpretation of the driving forces that favor the plus values due to the transition of land-use. Compensation, easements, recapture of plus value, and improvement are, nowadays in Italy, discussed as major land-policy tools for managing environmental and landscape preservation. The interplay between urban economics and environmentally sound regulations reveals some controversial issues in urban governance and nature preservation: perhaps some abstract regulations, conjoined with non-case-oriented urban policies, consider these keywords as the old chemists considered the Philosopher's Stone. The analyses show criticality emerging themes in emblematic cases, studied in some municipal contexts.
Performance Evaluation of Waste Materials in Construction for Sustainability
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2018
Construction and demolition (C&D) materials cause a major contribution in waste management. F... more Construction and demolition (C&D) materials cause a major contribution in waste management. For this reason, due to the wide possibility to re-introduce waste materials from C&D in the building production cycle, it appears reasonable a reflection of the ratio cost/performance to create a more sustainable production chain in the construction market. In this paper it is described an experimental approach for testing performance of waste materials, combined with a multidimensional indicator of performance of construction components derived for the recycle and the reuse of C&D. The materials analyzed in this experiment are based on gypsum, that is to say one major component of pre-cast panels, plaster and bricks. In detail, the research work studies the viability and effects of using recycled aggregates from C&D waste (i.e. expanded polystyrene (EPS), ceramic and concrete waste) in a gypsum matrix to manufacture new gypsum components for interior partitions and inner layers of facades and as coating material. The paper shows not only the way to test materials, but also the way to find the economic advantage, expressed in terms of cost-performance ratio in a multicriterial assessment.
Experimenting CIE and CBA in Urban Restoration
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2017
The Community impact evaluation (CIE) is a multi-actor methodology of evaluation: its goal is to ... more The Community impact evaluation (CIE) is a multi-actor methodology of evaluation: its goal is to identify the convenience of actions/projects, as part of urban policies, according to the Social preferable expressed by different members of the community affected by the policy itself. It traces a methodological approach for the preparation of a social report distributed in the plan’s policies. His first methodological application was developed as Planning Balance Sheet in the early sixties, in order to give an answer to the need to overcome the Cost-benefit analysis limit constituted by the failure to evaluate the distributive effects of interventions. Lichfield [1] distinguishes between different social categories those involved in an active way (promoters) or passive (users) in the implementation of an intervention, in different ways. These different modes of involvement are defined by the nature of the different advantages of which each group can enjoy and disadvantages that each group can undergo. They play an active role of the producers, who participate in the implementation of the intervention. instead play a “passive” users, who do not participate in the production process. A first way to determine the distribution effects is therefore to build many budgets disaggregated as there are groups affected by the policy of recovery. If the benefits and costs identified for each social group were all liquidated the procedure would be to build a series of indicators of economic convenience. (Net Present Value and Internal Return Rate) estimated budget for the costs benefits of all the groups involved [2].
Analysis of Fuzzyness in Spatial Variation of Real Estate Market: Some Italian Case Studies
Smart innovation, systems and technologies, 2010
Abstract. The paper shows a method aiming at giving a measure of fuzzyness referring to the chang... more Abstract. The paper shows a method aiming at giving a measure of fuzzyness referring to the change of real estate value from an area to another one belonging to the same urban context. This measure is based on Munda's “Semantic distance”(1997). Such measure is considered helpful to validate the traditional subdivision of the city by the Italian Cadastral System in the so-called" cadastral census section". The paper starts explaining the cadastral approach that guides the partition of an urban area, according to the hypothesis of ...
Gentrification and Sport. Football Stadiums and Changes in the Urban Rent
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2018
In this paper we examine the changes in terms of urban rent and urban planning occurring after th... more In this paper we examine the changes in terms of urban rent and urban planning occurring after the introduction on the Italian law of 21 June 2017, n. 96 on Football stadiums property and management. Such law is actually paving the way to a set of new and still unexplored consequences on urban rents and urban renewal processes and real estate markets, as well as in terms of new patterns of urban behaviors. In detail, changes deal with the times strictly related to sport events, well scheduled in time (peak events), and those related to the ordinary life of the area (off peak events) as retail, transport and leisure/residential activities, often now coupled with the presence of such sport facilities. We briefly analyze some few Italian cases of football stadiums renewals, especially looking at those settled in cities hosting premier league clubs. We looked also at consequences they had in terms of urban rent, urban services. After, we started considering the possible implications that such investments can have on the cities that are likely to host such renewal processes in the near future, trying to highlight some possible changes in the “hedonic price” asset, and suggestions in terms of policy aimed at igniting a ‘good’ gentrification process.
A Fuzzy Multi-criteria Decision Model for the Regeneration of the Urban Peripheries
Smart innovation, systems and technologies, May 19, 2018
The regeneration of the urban peripheral areas is undoubtedly among the most complex issues with ... more The regeneration of the urban peripheral areas is undoubtedly among the most complex issues with which the Public Administrations are currently facing. Different interests, often conflicting, coming from citizens, entrepreneurs and stakeholders, focus on these areas. In the present research a fuzzy multi-criteria decision model is proposed, as support of the Public Administration in the analysis of different scenarios, referred to different temporal moments. The application to four different urban peripheries located in the metropolitan area of Rome (Italy) highlights the potentialities of this model. The representation of the results through a radar diagram and a histogram makes them easily intelligible also by non-expert subjects.
Earth System Dynamics Discussions, Jan 28, 2013
During the centuries, the seaside has represented a crucial pole for future human development and... more During the centuries, the seaside has represented a crucial pole for future human development and civilization. The use of the sea for transport and trade and the overwhelming availability of food derived from coastal waters have encouraged and strengthened the growth of urban settlements. In the same time, the human pressure menaces to destroy coastal habitats and consequently their carrying capacity that allows for many essential functions. Low-impact activities are often replaced, on the surface, by new intensive ones that are attractive in the short term, but that in the long term undermine by reducing the resilience of the coast. It is clear that, in a perspective of sustainable development, economically efficient and socially equitable use of coastal areas need to be supported inside strategies to correct these weaknesses. The definition of such strategies and their implementation in the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is an essential tool for supporting decisions and of monitoring. The issues of monitoring, more in particular, have been the subject of study and modelling by the use of Dynamic Spatial Data Analysis (DSDA), in the case of the SEA of the Coastal Plan of the Italian Apulia Region, as an information instrument for regulating the anthropogenic changes; a possibility to implement the analysis of environmental sensitivity and propensity to Coastal erosion has been explored, in order to control the level of human pressure on land. The monitoring system should provide an automatic "alert" when the dimension and the velocity of the change of land use overpass some threshold of environmental pressure.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2010
The paper show the use of a fuzzy weighting system to identify the correspondence of real estate ... more The paper show the use of a fuzzy weighting system to identify the correspondence of real estate value with main socio-physical characters of the urban tissue. The descriptor of the relationship with the real estate value is represented by a set of indicators of the urban decay of housing property and the analysis is tested on a real application of a case study. The study gives support to the development of new approach for localizing cadastral values at a more detailed scale, compared to the current scale used in the Italian Cadastre. The utilized statistical approach has been based on the SaTScan application, as a techniques of fuzzy clustering, and on a test of stability based on the comparison of a "fuzzy semantic distance" among the average real estate values of urban quarters, with the expected crisp distance among the same quarters.
The Use of Ahp in a Multiactor Evaluation for Urban Development Programs: A Case Study
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2012
The story of public policies and urban development plans is characterized by continuous deals, is... more The story of public policies and urban development plans is characterized by continuous deals, is affected by an dynamic institutional counterbalance among actors, a political re-formulation of actions that relevantly reduce the affordability of forecasts of success. The interaction among different actors affects the designed path of change, and the negotiation can change strategies, can accelerate or delay pieces of the predicted urban development and consequently modify the flow of positive/negative economic effect, according to the ...