The fragmentation of data on the existing built environment is a critical obstacle to the governance of urban spaces. Although a wide range of data sources is available, from satellite imagery and environmental sensors to socio-demographic and cadastral datasets, these resources often lack interoperability and integration. This deficiency limits the ability of governments and stakeholders […]
In the Italian context, inner rural and mountain areas suffer from depopulation, an ageing population, a lack of services, and extreme seasonal tourism. In order to counteract this phenomenon, the Italian National Strategy for Inner Areas (SNAI) identifies sustainable tourism as a promising accelerator of local development, along with agricultural and food production, renewable energy […]
Understanding the reasons why some areas are more attractive than others is strategic for all municipalities located in weak socio-economic contexts, which need new development opportunities to strengthen their economies and tackle the depopulation trends. Single or multiple factors can act as triggers or detractors in inner areas and fragile territories: one of these is […]
Italian Inner Areas are fragile territories, often offering only essential services and thus characterised by depopulation and degradation. The National Strategy for Inner Areas (SNAI) is a recent innovative Italian policy to counteract marginalisation and demographic decline by creating new employment circuits and chances of local development through territorial cohesion. In recent years, some public […]
DIKEDOC (DIspersed KnowledgE: Describe, Organise, Communicate) is the acronym of a knowledge-based methodology that is applied to a confused set of knowledge pieces, from different sources, that risk vanishing, in order to pass from this state of dispersed knowledge to a dynamic synthesis, which is then translated into analytical models. The stimulus of this methodological […]
The UNESCO site “Ivrea, industrial city of the 20th century” is a large urban area designed and developed under the leadership of Adriano Olivetti. It consists of more than 100 private buildings, valuable examples of Modern Heritage, and more than 60 elements related to public and private infrastructures and green areas. Currently the whole site […]