A Case Study Driven Integrated Methodology to Support Sustainable Urban Regeneration Planning and Management

Natividade-Jesus, Eduardo; Almeida, A.; Sousa, Nuno; Coutinho-Rodrigues, João

doi:10.3390/su11154129

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“…Urban regeneration is a probability for obtaining sustainable and flexible development, energy efficiency, revised land use, revitalization of old city centres, and the empowerment of citizens [22,23]. Urban regeneration brings conscious, systematized, and planned action and is used for economic, social and physical reconstruction as well as the re-functioning of the physically decayed and old urban areas.…”

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A New Framework for the Regeneration Process of Mediterranean Historic City Centres

Tanrıkul

Hoşkara

2019

Sustainability

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For thousands of years, cities have evolved with changing needs. Cities are like living organisms, which are exposed to transformations as a result of changing needs and requirements. City centres are one of the attractive, essential, and vital parts of the city that are also affected by these changes. Specifically, historic city centres, which refer to the origins of the city, will be discussed within this context. Urban design aims to shape our cities with better quality and provide better places for everyday life. In addition, urban regeneration can be utilized as generic public policy for solving problems and providing physical improvements for these cities. Although the problems that emerge in each city are similar, sometimes they change circumstantially. As a result, the planning, implementation, and management of urban regeneration projects as well as their sustainability can produce serious complications. This article focuses on the process of urban regeneration, historic city centres, and the Mediterranean region and aims to develop an applicable regeneration framework for historic city centres limited to the Mediterranean region. First, the main problems of these cities are described. Next, characteristics of historic city centres and associated problems of the Mediterranean region are explained. Subsequently, the concept of urban regeneration is clarified, and the processes involved are discussed. Finally, an applicable urban regeneration framework for historic Mediterranean city centres, developed by the authors, is explained with the goal to reduce social segregation while incorporating the contributions of views from both local inhabitants and stakeholders in the process. The methodology of the overall research presented in this article is mainly based on a critical review of primary and secondary documents from the literature through a comparative and exploratory approach.

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A New Framework for the Regeneration Process of Mediterranean Historic City Centres

Tanrıkul

Hoşkara

2019

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“…It is now a widespread notion that the objectives of energy saving and soil protection, diffusely shared throughout the community, impose a limitation to the use of new land, directing the future development of urbanized territories toward the regeneration of existing urbanized spaces (infrastructures and building stock) [41][42][43][44]. Hence, the transformation processes of the urban space must be preferentially planned by performing actions on existing spaces, filling the gap between the existing building stock and new needs.…”

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The Assessment of Density Bonus in Building Renovation Interventions. The Case of the City of Florence in Italy

Battisti

Campo

2021

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The European Green Deal indicates the renovation of both public and private buildings as a key element for the improvement of energy efficiency in the building stock, in order to reach the goals of the document itself. New incentives, also including density bonus, can significantly contribute to foster diffuse actions. In Italy, the density bonus is under testing: the current framework has produced profitability for regeneration in some areas and unprofitability in others. This has led to a non-diffuse renewal, widening differences in richness and quality throughout territories subjected to the same reward measure. A territory is characterized by a high degree of typological and qualitative fragmentation and dissimilarity. Thus, the aim of the present work is the construction of a model that allows for identifying the entity of the reward measure in terms of density bonus. Density bonus can determine the feasibility of renovation interventions—in economic-financial terms and in relation to urban impact—taking into account the characteristics of the context (or micro-context) where they are performed. The research model is based on a Balance Sheet Model and is applied to the city of Florence. The model suggests an innovative approach where urban, landscape and environmental impacts produced by the density bonus are evaluated according to the economic amount needed for their mitigation. The expected results in the application of the model consist in the definition of an iso-bonus map organized by areas.

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“…Without such support, the implementation of complex, multifaceted revitalisation programmes is less effective and its outcomes are not so sustainable. The literature review shows that in order to properly fulfil this role, local authorities should see revitalisation in an integrated and holistic way [55]. Therefore, the study examined opinions of village leaders and city mayors on the importance of revitalisation objectives.…”

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Polish Local Government’s Perspective on Revitalisation: A Framework for Future Socially Sustainable Solutions

Przywojska

2021

Energies

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The principal goal of this paper is to investigate the views of local government officials on revitalisation priorities in Polish municipalities. To accomplish this, the perception of revitalisation objectives by local government representatives (who, according to Polish regulations, are responsible for revitalisation planning and carrying it out) was examined. A catalogue of revitalisation objectives, which were assessed by the respondents, was drawn up on the basis of a review of research on the conceptualisation and measurement of sustainable revitalisation and social sustainability at the local level. Exploratory factor analysis was the method used in the study. In total, the list of the examined revitalisation objectives includes 26 objectives related to the following revitalisation dimensions: infrastructure, community, economy, environment, space, co-governance, and inclusion. A survey of the executive bodies of 573 municipalities in Poland revealed a discrepancy between the sustainable approach to revitalisation advocated by the researchers and the perception of revitalisation objectives by the local decision makers. The study demonstrated that decision makers ranked objectives related to the physical dimension of revitalisation and selected objectives related to the social dimension of revitalisation and oriented at counteracting social exclusion by far the highest. The proactive objectives, related to the engagement, mobilisation and integration of the inhabitants, improvement of human capital, stimulation of the local economy and residential satisfaction, were viewed as definitely less important. The challenges facing revitalisation in Poland still fail to be perceived holistically by decision makers, which may hinder the building of strong and sustainable communities.

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A Case Study Driven Integrated Methodology to Support Sustainable Urban Regeneration Planning and Management

Cited by 26 publications

References 42 publications

A New Framework for the Regeneration Process of Mediterranean Historic City Centres

A New Framework for the Regeneration Process of Mediterranean Historic City Centres

The Assessment of Density Bonus in Building Renovation Interventions. The Case of the City of Florence in Italy

Polish Local Government’s Perspective on Revitalisation: A Framework for Future Socially Sustainable Solutions

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