Social Sustainability in Urban Regeneration: Indicators and Evaluation Methods in the EU 2020 Programming
The contribution deals with some orientations for impact analysis within the process of urban regeneration, on the basis of guidelines of the European Structural Funds 2014–2020 aiming at regional development policies which are more focused on desired res
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Abstract The contribution deals with some orientations for impact analysis within the process of urban regeneration, on the basis of guidelines of the European Structural Funds 2014–2020 aiming at regional development policies which are more focused on desired results and on a place-based approach. The impact assessments is now deemed essential in order to improve use of resources, making more effective programs and ensuring transparency of public decision-making. In this regard, the contribution underlines the need to strengthen the connections between urban/territorial planning and decision support systems. In particular, starting with a review of the concept of social sustainability, the paper outlines some of the main indicators existing in recent European studies for urban regeneration, so to identify the impacts of the interventions and defining suitable decision making processes to guide policies. Some references to the ANP multi-criteria network approach (Saaty and Cillo 2008) are reported in reference to the case of Pescara (Italy), as useful method to understand whether the urban regeneration orientations determines a condition of development which is preferable than the baseline.
Keywords Reliability Decision making process Mathematical modeling Spatial data GIS Quality assessment Utility value
1 Introduction Urban Regeneration today is the focus of urban development strategies. Many authors agree that it can be defined as the local redevelopment of neighborhoods, cities, metropolitan areas through multidimensional and place based policies to interpret changes. Urban regeneration requires an integrated approach to urban development, in terms of social, economic, physical, environmental, cultural and B. Ferri (&) Department of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, “G. D’Annunzio” University of Chieti, Pescara, Italy e-mail: [email protected] © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017 A. Maturo et al. (eds.), Recent Trends in Social Systems: Quantitative Theories and Quantitative Models, Studies in Systems, Decision and Control 66, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40585-8_8
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participatory interventions to improve the quality of life. In order to define sustainable urban planning strategies, the notion of social sustainability today is included within the broader framework of the impact assessment of plans, projects and policies, since sustainability is increasingly focused on intangible aspects (happiness, wellbeing, sense of place), not limited to environmental and economic issues, generally related to physical renewal of degraded urban sites, or employment, equity and poverty alleviation indices. This emphasizes the need to examine social sustainability and its main themes, dimensions and measurement in the context of sustainable urban regeneration (Colantonio and Dixon 2009). In the context of sustainable planning strategies (European Commission 2011), we can consider social sustainability in the broader framework of Territorial Welfare. It requires evaluation methods fo
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