Nocca, Francesca
(2017)
Hybrid evaluation tools for operationalizing UNESCO Historic Urban Landscape Approach.
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English |
| Titolo: |
Hybrid evaluation tools for operationalizing UNESCO Historic Urban Landscape Approach |
| Autori: |
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| Nocca, Francesca | francesca.nocca@unina.it |
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| Data: |
10 Aprile 2017 |
| Numero di pagine: |
467 |
| Istituzione: |
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II |
| Dipartimento: |
Architettura |
| Scuola di dottorato: |
Architettura |
| Dottorato: |
Architettura |
| Ciclo di dottorato: |
29 |
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| RUSSO, MICHELANGELO | russomic@unina.it |
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| FUSCO GIRARD, LUIGI | [non definito] | | DE TORO, PASQUALE | [non definito] |
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| Data: |
10 Aprile 2017 |
| Numero di pagine: |
467 |
| Parole chiave: |
Historic Urban Landscape; hybrid evaluation tools; multidimensional indicators. |
| Settori scientifico-disciplinari del MIUR: |
Area 08 - Ingegneria civile e Architettura > ICAR/22 - Estimo |
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| Depositato il: |
18 Apr 2017 14:43 |
| Ultima modifica: |
07 Mar 2018 12:49 |
| URI: |
http://www.fedoa.unina.it/id/eprint/11480 |
Abstract
The present research is part of the international debate about the role of cities in the achievement of sustainable development.
The thesis stresses the role of cities and human settlements to shape the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in an increasingly urbanized world. It aims to make operational concepts driving sustainable transformations of cities and territories in the evaluation field. Its purpose is to put into operational terms concepts and categories identified by international organizations, otherwise at risk of being confined to a purely abstract reflections.
The thesis aims to provide an evaluation approach and a multidimensional indicators matrix for supporting the valorization/regeneration projects/management strategies of cities and territory, conscious that the Historic Urban Landscape conservation does not represents a cost, but an investment able to increase the city multidimensional productivity.
The present thesis mainly focuses the attention on the historic port cities because of their peculiar characteristics.
After an overview of the actual international debate about sustainable development, the recognition of the role of cultural heritage/landscape in sustainable development is analysed through the examination of international conferences and documents, with particular reference to 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (United Nation, 2015) and The New Urban Agenda (United Nation, 2016a).
The UNESCO Historic Urban Landscape approach (HUL) (UNESCO, 2011), the latest contribution of the international debate on the identification, conservation and enhancement of cultural heritage, is analysed in depth.
The notion of urban heritage is inseparable from its multidimensional nature, so it requires an “inclusive approach” able to include the dynamic dimension of cultural landscape and its multiple values/dimensions.
In the perspective of Historic Urban Landscape, an operational indicators matrix has proposed for evaluating the multidimensional impacts of conservation/regeneration projects, that is for producing empirical evidence about multidimensional benefits of cultural landscape conservation/regeneration.
The set of proposed multidimensional indicators is deduced from the analysis of about 40 good practices of conservation/regeneration projects. The impacts analysed, both on cultural heritage and from cultural heritage, are classified in 9 impact categories.
In the present research, transformation processes of cities are placed into a new framework, the circular economy. The circular model, based on principles characterizing natural ecosystems (based on circular processes where nothing is “waste” and everything can become a “resource”), is proposed to operationalize sustainable development principles. It is not only referred to waste cycle (European Commission, 2015), but it is the economy of synergies and symbiosis between different industrial activities, city and industrial system, etc. and offers great opportunities to increase urban productivity.
The highlighted multidimensional perspective of cities transformation implies a systemic and integrated approach that requires new assessment tools.
Economic approach is necessary, but it is not sufficient. It needs an integrated evaluation tool, in which quantitative economic matrix is enriched with qualitative indicators, expressed by social components (social matrix) and environmental components (ecological matrix).
The thesis does not intend to propose a new evaluation method, but rather an evaluation process, capitalizing the richness of existing tools. It aims to provide a tool for supporting decision-makers in the evaluation of impacts of projects at different scale. An operational approach is proposed for the assessment of the impacts on and from cultural heritage conservation/regeneration projects.
The case study of Pozzuoli (Italy) represents a concrete implementation of the proposed methodology, demonstrating its application potentialities.
It represents a good opportunity to concretely put into practice the issues discussed because it is characterized by a valuable cultural and natural landscape and a complex city-port system.
Considering the multidimensionality of the impacts, multi-group and multi-criteria analysis are processed to evaluate the more appropriate combination of functions to valorize the area and the resources of the territory; in other words, to increase city productivity.
The proposed methodological approach, starting from the multidimensional indicators matrix, is applied in the case study in order to include multiple dimensions in the evaluation process, supporting the identification of sustainable development strategies. This evaluation approach takes into account the above highlighted multidimensionality, also including both expert and community knowledge.
The proposed evaluation approach and the multidimensional indicators matrix aim to provide a valuable tool for supporting city regeneration/valorization projects/management strategies, aware that the Historic Urban Landscape conservation is an investment able to increase multidimensional productivity of cities, and not a cost.
This research intends to provide an operational approach to support decision-makers to orient and assess choices addressed to the achievement (and the increase) of multidimensional productivity of cities. The set of indicators can represent a general indicator framework that can be used to evaluate cultural landscape impacts in different territorial situation, but contextualizing it case by case. The choice of key indicators to be considered depends on the aims of the projects, the location and scale of intervention (building, site, etc.). The proposed indicators matrix can be used both for ex-ante and ex-post assessment.
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