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Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions

Results of SSPCR 2022

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  • 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 overview of up-to-date tools, models, and methods for implementing and scaling up smart city solutions
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Part of the book series: Green Energy and Technology (GREEN)

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This open access book includes a selection of innovative contributions presented at the 4th international conference “Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions 2022”, held in Bolzano, Italy in July 2022. Featuring 10 papers by academics and consultants, strongly rooted in practical experiences and international projects, it discusses current ground-breaking research in innovative and sustainable planning for cities, with a focus on the environmental, economic, and social challenges associated with the global sustainability transition and energy systems integration.

The contributions are illustrative of the richness of the issues discussed and the breadth of the emerging themes, including innovative business models for building and infrastructure at district level, integrated sustainability assessment schemes for Positive Energy Districts, a material flow accounting model for regional metabolism,  energy communities as a lever to promote historical and landscape values, optimized and electrified last-mile logistics, multi-criteria decision analysis tools to redefine center/periphery relationships, a framework for socio-spatial analysis related to social practices, design principles and communication technologies improving both indoor and outdoor public spaces,  augmented nature-based solution coupling the green elements with the latest technologies to deliver healthier and more appealing cities.


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Table of contents (10 chapters)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Renewable Energy, Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy

    Adriano Bisello, Daniele Vettorato

  • DIST—Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

    Marta Bottero

  • School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece

    Dionysia Kolokotsa

Bibliographic Information

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

  • Book Subtitle: Results of SSPCR 2022

  • Editors: Adriano Bisello, Daniele Vettorato, Marta Bottero, Dionysia Kolokotsa

  • Series Title: Green Energy and Technology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39206-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39205-4Published: 14 December 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39208-5Published: 14 December 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-39206-1Published: 13 December 2023

  • Series ISSN: 1865-3529

  • Series E-ISSN: 1865-3537

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 139

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Geography, general, Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Regional/Spatial Science

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