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The Appraisal Challenge in Cultural Urban Regeneration: An Evaluation Proposal

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Abandoned Buildings in Contemporary Cities: Smart Conditions for Actions

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In the recent decades, cities need to face new challenge in environmental, economic, social and cultural dimensions and the awareness of the necessity of significant intervention able to address these conditions, led to identify urban regeneration policies to tackle these problems in all their multidimensionality. Moreover, recently in this context, culture becomes to be used as a tool for improving the conditions and the changes of many cities, in order to avoid the demolition of industrial sites, urban centres and abandoned areas and to handle their new urban trajectories. Culture became the new way to renew the image of cities or districts, but the key question is how we can measure the impacts of this phenomenon. According to this, starting from a literature review of evaluation procedures in the urban regeneration fields, the aim of the chapter is to provide a proposal of evaluation in order to assess the outputs of a regeneration process based on culture. Through a combination of approaches, interfacing with experts, the chapter seek to provides a set of indicators with the aim to assess the value-added by the regeneration process according to environmental, socio-cultural and economic fields.

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Mecca, B., Lami, I.M. (2020). The Appraisal Challenge in Cultural Urban Regeneration: An Evaluation Proposal. In: Lami, I. (eds) Abandoned Buildings in Contemporary Cities: Smart Conditions for Actions. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 168. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35550-0_5

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