Operationalizing the Circular City Model for Naples’ City-Port: A Hybrid Development Strategy

Cerreta, Maria; Girasole, Eleonora Giovene di; Poli, Giuliano; Regalbuto, Stefania

doi:10.3390/su12072927

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“…MCA can be applied through many approaches for the aggregation of results [103,104]. The mostly used method is the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) [99,105,106], which is based on the paired comparison of the criteria to determine the weighting factors of the criteria; while the PROMETHEE method is used in [107] and the Hermione methodology in [96]. The approaches differ in the definition and ranking of the criteria used to analyze the sustainability of the proposed urban scenarios.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Circular economy strategies are also applied in [107,[158][159][160]179,180], by means of the implementation of circular models supported by KPIs, and in [136,138,140,141,143,147] through LCA. As discussed in [12,14,120,181,182], the life cycle perspective could facilitate the identification of best practices as a glance only at the operational phase could be misleading and lead to a biased assessment.…”

Section: Environemntal Sustainability Actions and Findingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Environmental Sustainability Approaches and Positive Energy Districts: A Literature Review

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During the last decade, increasing attention has been paid to the emerging concept of Positive Energy Districts (PED) with the aim of pushing the transition to clean energy, but further research efforts are needed to identify design approaches optimized from the point of view of sustainable development. In this context, this literature review is placed, with a specific focus on environmental sustainability within innovative and eco-sustainable districts. The findings show that some sustainability aspects such as sustainable food, urban heat islands mitigation and co-impacts, e.g., green gentrification, are not adequately assessed, while fragmented thinking limits the potential of circularity. In this regard, targeted strategies should be developed. On the other hand, the Key Performance Indicators framework needs some integrations. In this direction, indicators were suggested, among those defined in the Sustainable Development Agenda, the main European standards and initiatives and the relevant literature experiences. Future outlooks should be directed towards: the harmonization of the Life Cycle Assessment in PEDs with reference to modeling assumptions and analysis of multiple impacts; the development of dynamic environmental analyses taking into account the long-term uncertainty due to climate change, data availability and energy decarbonization; the combination of Life Cycle Assessment and Key Performance Indicators based techniques, from a holistic thinking perspective, for a comprehensive design environment and the analysis of the contribution of energy flexibility approaches on the environmental impact of a project.

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Section: Environemntal Sustainability Actions and Findingsmentioning

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Environmental Sustainability Approaches and Positive Energy Districts: A Literature Review

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“…Only 12% of the literature in the study about the systemic interaction between sustainability and CE refers to the micro-scale analysis, which turned out not to be significant in this field. However, the study of this research area has not been limited to supplying political coherence in the public authorities' agendas; other actors in society-such as civil society, industry and businesspeople-encourage the implementation of the six previously defined CE strategies claiming a systemic understanding in relation to sustainability and its existing indicators and assessments (SDGs) [51,52]. Having a better understanding of the drivers defining the level of analysis, the typology of the CE strategies and the priority business economic sectors on which those CE strategies have been deployed will bridge the gap in the current state of the art on how the existing sustainability goals influence the implementation of CE strategies and vice-versa.…”

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Theoretical Research on Circular Economy and Sustainability Trade-Offs and Synergies

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Circular economy (CE) and sustainability are interrelated, without being exchangeable. While sustainability tries to reconcile the management of productive resources with their increasing consumption, CE aims to make the productive process more efficient, reducing, reusing and recycling the results of the productive process as much as possible. The aim of this paper is to ascertain the systemic structure of interactions between sustainability and CE through the analysis of the existing literature from 2004 to 2021. For this purpose, a computational literature review and a content analysis of the main contributions of CE and sustainability, within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), were conducted. The results show that there is a positive impact of the synergy between CE strategies and certain SDGs. Specifically, the circular strategies that generate the greatest synergies have to do with preserving materials through recycling, downcycling, and the measurement of indicators or reference scenarios. This is what has led to the inclusion of these concepts in the formulation of policies and strategies, as their multidisciplinary nature allows them to have an impact on areas such as agriculture or innovation, which currently lack specific measures. Therefore, the knowledge derived from this study will contribute favorably to future decisions and actions to be considered, as there is still the potential to legislate in favor of an even more sustainable framework.

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“…Additionally, social benefits are also important, in the form of recreational spaces, parks, urban gardening and many others. The increased % of porous spaces in cities is one of the most important sustainable strategies in the climate change adaptation of cities [54][55][56][57].…”

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Circle in Space—Space in Circle: A Study of Ratio between Open Space and Built-Up Area in Historical Circular Objects

2021

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Many cities nowadays explore different circular designs as new sustainable city concepts in different urban aspects. The new trend, as part of the adaptation for climate change, is a strategy of increasing the number of urban open spaces, and circular plan design could be a sustainable approach to urban development. This paper provides a historical overview of various examples of circular objects containing built structures and open spaces from the Neolithic to the present. The Built-Up Area (BUA) and Open Space (OS) relationships are shown histogramically for 36 objects arranged chronologically. The morphospace analysis was performed to determine any possible regularity in the relationships of parts of circular objects. For the purpose of this research, three variables were chosen. First, all selected historical examples of circular objects were divided into two main categories: objects with a total diameter smaller than 300 m and objects with a total diameter bigger than 300 m. Additionally, the selected circular objects were divided by their type of open space to better understand their spatial position. The largest number of analyzed objects belongs to the Parks–Gardens category, followed by settlements, and then earth works, sacral objects and circular buildings, with the smallest number of circular objects being in the category of allotments and plazas. The second variable was Jam area and % of Jam. The buildings are of different sizes up to several hundred m2, and the areas range up to several hundred ha. The total area to OS ratio ranges from 0% (for Large Serdab) to 100% (for multiple objects). There is a similar situation with the diameter ratios (total and “jam”). Additionally, the final variable was the historical position of the selected circular objects. Circular objects belong to all historical periods from the Neolithic to the present. The aim of this research was to explore the relationship between OS and BUA in various circular objects with different diameters of open spaces and find out if there was any regularity in this relationship. The morphospace analysis of this research indicates that there is no clear regularity in the relationship between the built-up area and the open space, but the aspects and research results shown here contribute to sustainability since the circular design approach could play a key role in future circular design processes.

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Operationalizing the Circular City Model for Naples’ City-Port: A Hybrid Development Strategy

Cited by 37 publications

References 49 publications

Environmental Sustainability Approaches and Positive Energy Districts: A Literature Review

Environmental Sustainability Approaches and Positive Energy Districts: A Literature Review

Theoretical Research on Circular Economy and Sustainability Trade-Offs and Synergies

Circle in Space—Space in Circle: A Study of Ratio between Open Space and Built-Up Area in Historical Circular Objects

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