Bøger af Daniele La Rosa

Non-Urbanized Areas (NUAs) are outdoor places in urban context with significant amounts of vegetation, representing the last remnants of nature in metropolitan areas. As part of the agricultural and green infrastructure, NUAs provide a different range of Ecosystem Services, such as purification of air and water, mitigation of floods and droughts, re-generation of soil fertility, moderation of temperature extremes and enhancing of landscape quality. Like other natural ecosystems, NUAs today are endangered by urbanization processes, which are the main cause of their fragmentation and loss of evapotranspiring features. For these reasons, the protection of these areas is a fundamental issue for land use planning, and it requires appropriate methods and strategies for their management. This book explores the role and importance of NUAs in metropolitan contexts and presents a method for their characterization for urban planning. The method produces a scenario of new land uses of existing NUAs, aimed at enhancing the production of urban ecosystem services within the agricultural and green infrastructure. The method is based on different phases such as analysis of Land Cover, Fragmentation, Proximity and Compatibility.

This book is the second Volume of the INPUT2020 Conference Proceedings on 'Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning'. The 11th International Conference INPUT was held at the University of Catania (Italy) on September 8-10th 2021 and allowed gathering international scholars in the fields of planning, civil engineering and architecture, ecology and social science, to strengthen the knowledge on nature-based solutions and to enhance the implementation and replication of these solutions in different contexts. INPUT2020 Conference stressed the basic idea that using components that mimic natural processes in the built environment can generate a wide number of benefits in cities, and produced more equal, safe and livable urban environment. The book provides additional reflections and proposals on empirical frameworks for nature-based solutions. Computational tools, technologies, data and hybrid models are explored for providing innovative spatial planning modeling methodologies. Furthermore, prospective roles of nature-based solutions in planning science and practice are investigated in the light of peripheralisation risks, rural landscapes and innovation in cultural heritage.