Value and Quality in the Dialectics between Human and Urban Capital of the City Networks on the Land District Scale

Nasca, Ludovica; Giuffrida, Salvatore; Trovato, Maria Rosa

doi:10.3390/land11010034

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“…This study was based on the belief that the reaffirmation of the lost urban centrality depends on the convergence of the physical-functional recovery of the building heritage and the recovery of the neighborhood identity. This methodological and operational proposal summarizes these two conditions by identifying the sustainable reuse of roofs as the interface between the needs of urban capital [58] and the demands and, therefore, between the matrices of practical value and symbolic value [59].…”

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Environmental Identities and the Sustainable City. The Green Roof Prospect for the Ecological Transition

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This research deals with the issue of the recovery of the historic urban fabric with a view towards ecological transition, nowadays considered the preferable direction of sustainability for the reform of the house–city–landscape system. The massive incentives provided by the Italian government for sustainable building, in view of the post-pandemic economic recovery, risk being reduced to mere support for the real estate sector, which turns the financial transfer from the public into an increase in asset value for the private sector. Such an incentive system could contradict the original function of the city, which is to be the privileged place for social communication and the creation of the identity of settled communities. A process of property development that disregards the distribution of income favors the most valuable property, thus increasing the socioeconomic distance between centrality and marginality. The latter is a condition that often characterizes the parts of the historic city affected by extensive phenomena of physical and functional obsolescence of the built heritage, and it is less capable of attracting public funding. The increase of building decay and social filtering-down accelerates the loss and involution of neighborhood identities; the latter constitutes the psycho-social energy that helps preserve the physical, functional and anthropological integrity of the city, due to the differences that make its parts recognizable. This study, with reference to a neighborhood in the historic city of Syracuse (Italy), proposes a model of analysis, evaluation and planning of interventions on the buildings’ roofs, aimed at defining the best strategy for ecological–environmental regeneration. The model presented allows one to generate a multiplicity of alternative strategies that combine different uses of roofs: from the most sustainable green roofs, but that are less cost-effective from the identity and landscape point of view; to the most efficient photovoltaic roofs from the energy–environmental point of view; and up to the most cost-effective ones, the vertical extensions with an increase in building volume. The proposed tool is an inter-scalar multidimensional valuation model that connects the multiple eco-socio-systemic attitudes of individual buildings to the landscape, identity, energy–environmental and economic overall dimensions of the urban fabric and allows one to define and compare multiple alternative recovery hypotheses, evaluating their potential impacts on the built environment. The model allows the formation of 100 different strategies, which are internally coherent and differently satisfy the above four perspectives, and it provides the preferable ones for each of the five approaches practiced. The best strategy characterizes most green roofs, 427 out of 1075 building units, 277 blue roofs, 121 green–blue roofs and 46 grey roofs.

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Section: The Borgata Todaymentioning

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“…Finally, issues of intragenerational (spatial preferences, i.e., between areas to be redeveloped) and intergenerational (the preferences, i.e., between present and future benefits) solidarity constitute the thematic and problematic contexts within which this research is placed, developing with further explorations also the tools by means of which the two dimensions of building heritage protection and people safety-as expressions of urban/human capital-are coordinated within the entire spectrum of project justification [37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45].…”

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Seismic–Energy Retrofit as Information-Value: Axiological Programming for the Ecological Transition

Trovato,

Ventura,

Lanzafame

et al. 2024

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The research deals with the issue of the seismic and energy retrofit of historic building fabrics having as reference a historic district of Syracuse (Italy). The prospect of the ecological transition on the one hand and the public support funding on the other claim for a valuation programming approach implying the creation of multiple scenarios, each of which is inspired by a different and complementary degree of “saliency and urgency”. These two dimensions of “being worth” by a building aggregation having an its own shape and belonging to a larger and more complex urban system need to be addressed according to some axiological reference, in this case, the concerns of the efficiency and fairness of public spending. This experience concerns the creation of a value-based programming pattern of the seismic–energy retrofit process framed in a Building Information Modelling (BIM) environment aimed at identifying the best intervention strategy among the several ones that can be generated in the logic of the parametric design. Both seismic and energy retrofit expected performances, in fact, can be scaled, complementing the extension and intensity of the interventions. This experiment takes advantage of the BIM multidimensional logic in line with the multiple scales and purposes implied by the relationships between individual/communal axiological profiles and present/future prospects. The experiment consists of the creation of an additive cost-oriented design platform based on which the different and progressive combinations of intensity and extension of the interventions can be compared and selected.

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“…GIS is a tool designed for the storage, archiving and analysis of land objects and phenomena whose geographic location is the original and primary reference (Aronoff, 1989); it is used for both the spatial calculation and the representation of the consequent cognitive and evaluative dimensions [153,154].…”

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Data and Values: Axiological Interpretations of Building Sprawl Landscape Risk in the Rural Territory of Noto (Italy)

Minioto,

Martinico,

Trovato

et al. 2023

Land

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This research concerns the issue of landscape risk due to the progressive spread of construction in rural areas through the creation of a “site-specific” analysis and evaluation model and its application to the context of the municipal area of Noto (Italy). The phenomenon of construction in rural areas was facilitated by the regulatory evolution of the Sicilian Region, which supported the construction of artifacts in agricultural areas to boost cultivation and production, but which, for the most part, was intended for seasonal residential use. In particular, the municipal territory of Noto is characterized by remarkable landscape values, including very low building density, large portions of the territory remaining almost uncontaminated, and the widespread presence of cultural and ethno-anthropological assets. Consequently, the demand for localization in rural areas, now also driven by the tendency to decongest dense urban areas in order to contain the effects of the pandemic, is a phenomenon that must be countered, on the one hand, and addressed and regulated on the other. The objective of this study is to provide the local administration with a planning tool to determine permissible interventions in various areas of the landscape context. This has guided the process of representing the phenomenon in quantitative and spatial terms, and of evaluating the territory targeted. A large set of data, coordinated in a hierarchical set of indices by means of a multidimensional valuation approach, allows us to provide an orderly and robust representation of the resilience of the landscape at risk from building pressure while considering multiple perspectives.

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Value and Quality in the Dialectics between Human and Urban Capital of the City Networks on the Land District Scale

Cited by 14 publications

References 142 publications

Environmental Identities and the Sustainable City. The Green Roof Prospect for the Ecological Transition

Environmental Identities and the Sustainable City. The Green Roof Prospect for the Ecological Transition

Seismic–Energy Retrofit as Information-Value: Axiological Programming for the Ecological Transition

Data and Values: Axiological Interpretations of Building Sprawl Landscape Risk in the Rural Territory of Noto (Italy)

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