Seminario Internazionale "Quality of Landscape and Quality of Life in the Sustainable Adriatic City"

FAR QLAND-QLIFE PROPOSAL – Quality of the Landscape and Quality of Life in the Sustainable Adriatic City ERC panels: SH3_1 Environment and sustainability; SH3_6 Spatial and regional planning; SH3_8 Urbanization and urban planning, cities. Principal Investigator (PI) and host school: Prof. Massimo Sargolini - School of Architecture and Design. ABSTRACT intermediate step The research project aims to identify an operational decision-support model capable of guiding public administrations in identifying the best development scenarios to respond to the needs and expectations of territories. At the same time, these will be the most sustainable scenarios regarding energy efficiency and savings and environmental, social, and economic goals. In this sense, the research encompasses activities that: • Use a transdisciplinay approach to reinterpret the relationships between the different physical, environmental, morphological, historical, and socio-economic components of the city in order to ensure greater sustainability and sharing of the possible or planned changes. • Measure the sustainability of the urban environment by studying a “dynamic, integrated model”. Configured as a multi-criteria assessment tool, the model surpasses and updates traditional indicators of urban sustainability that are based on the verticality of themes (mobility, buildings, energy efficiency, air and water quality, environmental quality, etc.). Acting separately, these indicators have been shown to be widely insufficient at accounting for urban complexity and inefficient at proposing constant, cyclic elements of support with respect to strategic/structural and operational planning tools. • Apply the new assessment model in support of local- and wide-scale urban plans in order to facilitate the evaluation of development scenarios contained in the plans and relate them to the desired sustainability objectives for each territorial area. The aim is to obtain an acceptable dynamic balance, which can be achieved and verified over time through monitoring operations capable of highlighting criticalities and reorienting development options.