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Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions

Results of SSPCR 2019

  • Offers empirical and theoretical insights into planning for smart and sustainable cities and regions
  • Combines multidisciplinary approaches, giving new suggestions to both researchers, policy, and decision makers
  • Constitutes an excellent overview of up-to-date tools, models and methods for implementing and scaling up smart city solutions

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Table of contents (42 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
  2. Shaping the Climate and Energy Transition: Clean Energy and Robust Systems for All

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. City-Level Evaluation: Categories, Application Fields and Indicators for Advanced Planning Processes for Urban Transformation

      • Carla Rodríguez, Cecilia Sanz-Montalvillo, Estefanía Vallejo, Ana Quijano
      Pages 17-35
    3. Proposal for an Integrated Approach to Support Urban Sustainability: The COSIMA Method Applied to Eco-Districts

      • Cristina Becchio, Marta Carla Bottero, Stefano Paolo Corgnati, Federico Dell’Anna, Giulia Pederiva, Giulia Vergerio
      Pages 37-47
    4. Governing and Planning Local Climate-Change Adaptation in the Alps

      • Luca Cetara, Marco Pregnolato, Pasquale La Malva
      Pages 69-80
    5. Projections of Electricity Demand in European Cities Using Downscaled Population Scenarios

      • Gianni Guastella, Enrico Lippo, Stefano Pareglio, Massimiliano Carlo Pietro Rizzati
      Pages 81-97
    6. Integrated Building Data for Smart Regions and Cities—An Italian Pilot

      • Ezilda Costanzo, Bruno Baldissara
      Pages 99-108
  3. Urban (Big) Data: Challenges for Information Retrieval and Knowledge Discovery

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
    2. Transposing Integrated Data-Driven Urban Planning from Theory to Practice: Guidelines for Smart and Sustainable Cities

      • Viktor Bukovszki, Ahmed Khoja, Natalie Essig, Åsa Nilsson, András Reith
      Pages 141-155
    3. City Indicators Visualization and Information System (CIVIS)

      • Álvaro Samperio-Valdivieso, Paula Hernampérez-Manso, Francisco Javier Miguel-Herrero, Estefanía Vallejo-Ortega, Gema Hernández-Moral
      Pages 157-169
    4. Methodology and Operating Tool for Urban Renovation: The Case Study of the Italian City of Meran

      • Alice Schweigkofler, Katrien Romagnoli, Dieter Steiner, Michael Riedl, Dominik T. Matt
      Pages 171-181
    5. Investigate Walkability: An Assessment Model to Support Urban Development Processes

      • Francesca Abastante, Marika Gaballo, Luigi La Riccia
      Pages 183-197
    6. Assessing the Level of Accessibility of Railway Public Transport for Women Passengers Using Location-Based Data: The Case of H2020 DIAMOND Project

      • Andrea Gorrini, Rawad Choubassi, Anahita Rezaallah, Dante Presicce, Ludovico Boratto, David Laniado et al.
      Pages 199-212
  4. New Value Propositions in Times of Urban Innovation Ecosystems and Sharing Economies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213

About this book

This book offers a selection of research papers and case studies presented at the 3rd international conference “Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions”, held in December 2019 in Bolzano, Italy, and explores the concept of smart and sustainable planning, including top contributions from academics, policy makers, consultants and other professionals.

Innovation processes such as co-design and co-creation help establish collaborations that engage with stakeholders in a trustworthy and transparent environment while answering the need for new value propositions.

The importance of an integrated, holistic approach is widely recognized to break down silos in local government, in particular, when aimed at achieving a better integration of climate-energy planning. Despite the ongoing urbanization and polarization processes, new synergies between urban and rural areas emerge, linking development opportunities to intrinsic cultural, natural and man-made landscape values. The increasing availability of big, real-time urban data and advanced ICT facilitates frequent assessment and continuous monitoring of performances, while allowing fine-tuning as needed. This is valid not only for individual projects but also on a wider scale. In addition, and circling back to the first point, (big) urban data and ICT can be of enormous help in facilitating engagement and co-creation by raising awareness and by providing insight into the local consequences of specific plans. However, this potential is not yet fully exploited in standard processes and procedures, which can therefore lack the agility and flexibility to keep up with the pulse of the city and dynamics of society.

The book provides a multi-disciplinary outlook based on experience to orient the reader in the giant galaxy of smart and sustainable planning, support the transposition of research into practice, scale up visionary approaches and design groundbreaking planning policies and tools.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Bolzano/Bozen, Italy

    Adriano Bisello

  • EURAC Research, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy

    Daniele Vettorato

  • Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation and Department of Geography, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

    Håvard Haarstad

  • Locality, Driebergen-Rijsenburg, The Netherlands

    Judith Borsboom-van Beurden

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions

  • Book Subtitle: Results of SSPCR 2019

  • Editors: Adriano Bisello, Daniele Vettorato, Håvard Haarstad, Judith Borsboom-van Beurden

  • Series Title: Green Energy and Technology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57332-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-57331-7Published: 23 March 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-57334-8Published: 23 March 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-57332-4Published: 22 March 2021

  • Series ISSN: 1865-3529

  • Series E-ISSN: 1865-3537

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 601

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 178 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Regional/Spatial Science

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eBook USD 39.99
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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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