Regeneration of the Built Environment from a Circular Economy Perspective

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Socio-Economic Development and Regeneration of Territories

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2

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   2. A Research Programme on Urban Dynamics

      • Roberto Camagni, Roberta Capello, Andrea Caragliu

      Pages 3-9Open Access

   3. Cultural Heritage, Creativity, and Local Development: A Scientific Research Program

      • Roberta Capello, Silvia Cerisola, Giovanni Perucca

      Pages 11-19Open Access

   4. Urbanization and Subjective Well-Being

      • Camilla Lenzi, Giovanni Perucca

      Pages 21-28Open Access

   5. EU Regional Policy Effectiveness and the Role of Territorial Capital

      • Ugo Fratesi, Giovanni Perucca

      Pages 29-37Open Access

   6. Demolition as a Territorial Reform Project

      • Chiara Merlini

      Pages 39-45Open Access

   7. The Evaluation of Urban Regeneration Processes

      • Leopoldo Sdino, Paolo Rosasco, Gianpiero Lombardini

      Pages 47-57Open Access

   8. New Paradigms for the Urban Regeneration Project Between Green Economy and Resilience

      • Elena Mussinelli, Andrea Tartaglia, Daniele Fanzini, Raffaella Riva, Davide Cerati, Giovanni Castaldo

      Pages 59-67Open Access

   9. The Technological Project for the Enhancement of Rural Heritage

      • Elena Mussinelli, Raffaella Riva, Roberto Bolici, Andrea Tartaglia, Davide Cerati, Giovanni Castaldo

      Pages 69-76Open Access

   10. Real Estate Assets for Social Impact: The Case of the Public Company for Social Services “ASP City of Bologna”

       • Angela S. Pavesi, Andrea Ciaramella, Marzia Morena, Genny Cia

       Pages 77-86Open Access

3. Reuse and Regeneration of Urban Spaces From a Resilient Perspective

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87

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   2. Participated Strategies for Small Towns Regeneration. The Case of Oliena (Nu) Historic Centre

      • Laura Daglio, Giuseppe Boi, Roberto Podda

      Pages 89-97Open Access

   3. Living and Learning: A New Identity for Student Housing in City Suburbs

      • Oscar E. Bellini, Matteo Gambaro, Martino Mocchi

      Pages 99-109Open Access

   4. PolimiparaRocinha: Environmental Performances and Social Inclusion—A Project for the Favela Rocinha

      • Gabriele Masera, Massimo Tadi, Carlo Biraghi, Hadi Mohammad Zadeh

      Pages 111-123Open Access

   5. Urban Renovation: An Opportunity for Economic Development, Environmental Improvement, and Social Redemption

      • Paola Caputo, Simone Ferrari, Federica Zagarella

      Pages 125-135Open Access

   6. Regenerative Urban Space: A Box for Public Space Use

      • Elisabetta Ginelli, Gianluca Pozzi, Giuditta Lazzati, Davide Pirillo, Giulia Vignati

      Pages 137-147Open Access

   7. Slow Mobility, Greenways, and Landscape Regeneration. Reusing Milan’s Parco Sud Decommissioned Rail Line as a Landscape Cycle Path, 2019

      • Raffaella Neri, Laura Anna Pezzetti

      Pages 149-158Open Access

   8. Nature and Mixed Types Architecture for Milano Farini

      • Adalberto Del Bo, Maria Vittoria Cardinale, Martina Landsberger, Stefano Perego, Giampaolo Turini, Daniele Beacco

      Pages 159-168Open Access

   9. Rehabilitation Projects of the Areas of the Decommissioned Barraks in Milan, 2014

      • Raffaella Neri

      Pages 169-179Open Access

This open access book explores the strategic importance and advantages of adopting multidisciplinary and multiscalar approaches of inquiry and intervention with respect to the built environment, based on principles of sustainability and circular economy strategies. A series of key challenges are considered in depth from a multidisciplinary perspective, spanning engineering, architecture, and regional and urban economics. These challenges include strategies to relaunch socioeconomic development through regenerative processes, the regeneration of urban spaces from the perspective of resilience, the development and deployment of innovative products and processes in the construction sector in order to comply more fully with the principles of sustainability and circularity, and the development of multiscale approaches to enhance the performance of both the existing building stock and new buildings. The book offers a rich selection of conceptual, empirical, methodological, technical, and case study/project-based research. It will be of value for all who have an interest in regeneration of the built environment from a circular economy perspective.

• Urban development
• Regional economic development
• Regeneration of urban spaces
• Construction sector
• Building performance
• Sustainable products
• Circular economy
• Social inclusion
• Built heritage
• Resilience
• Open Access

• Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering—ABC Department, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

  Stefano Della Torre, Sara Cattaneo, Camilla Lenzi, Alessandra Zanelli

Stefano Della Torre, who graduated in Civil Engineering and in Architecture, is a Full Professor of Restoration at the Politecnico di Milano in Milan, Italy, and Director of the ABC Department (Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering). He is the author of more than 360 publications. He served as an advisor to the CARIPLO Foundation (Cultural Districts), the Italian Government and Lombardy Region (policies on planned conservation of historical-architectural heritage). He has been President of BuildingSMART Italia – the national chapter of BuildingSMART International (2011-2017).

Sara Cattaneo has been Associate Professor of Structural Engineering at Politecnico di Milano since 2011, where she received both her MS and PhD in Structural Engineering. Since 2017 she has also been an Associate at the Construction Technologies Institute, Italian National Research Council (ITC-CNR). Examples of her wide-ranging research interests include fracture and damage of quasi-brittle materials, constitutive behavior, and the structural response of high-performance and self-consolidating concrete. She has been involved in a number of research projects at the national and European levels. Since 1999 she has spent periods at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, USA), where she has been a Visiting Professor. She is the author of more than 100 papers in international journals and international conference proceedings and serves as a reviewer for several international journals.

Camilla Lenzi has been an Associate Professor of Regional and Urban Economics at Politecnico di Milano since 2015. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Pavia and a Master of Science in Industry and Innovation Analysis from SPRU – University of Sussex, UK. From 2005 to 2008, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Economics of Bocconi University and CESPRI (now I-CRIOS). Her main research interests are in the fields of regional and innovation studies, urban economics, highly skilled worker mobility, and entrepreneurship.  She has participated in several EU-funded projects and has published in various international refereed journals, such as the Journal of Urban Economics, the Journal of Regional Science, Urban Studies, Regional Studies, Papers in Regional Science, and Small Business Economics.

Alessandra Zanelli is an architect and Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture, Built Environment, and Engineering Construction at Politecnico di Milano, where she teaches for both the School of Architecture, Urbanism, and Construction Engineering and the School of Design. She holds a PhD in the Technology of Architecture and the Environment. Since 2015 she has been coordinator of the Interdepartmental Research Laboratory of Textiles and Polymer Materials. She is also the Regional Representative and an Associate Partner of TensiNet, the thematic network for upgrading the built environment in Europe through tensile structures. She has been involved in many research projects co-financed by national and international bodies, focusing on the sustainable innovation of ultra-lightweight and flexible materials in both architecture and interior design. She is the author of more than 180 publications and holds four international patents.