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Smart Evaluation and Integrated Design in Regional Development Territorial Scenarios in Trentino, Italy
Smart Evaluation and Integrated Design in Regional Development puts forward an alternative approach to evaluation in spatial planning - one that focuses on ’territory’ and ’landscape’. The book introduces an innovative evaluation approach, namely Territorial Integrated Evaluation (TIE), a meta-evaluation methodology for designing regional development scenarios. A research team from the Politecnico di Torino applied this methodology experimentally to the practices of spatial planning in Trentino in order to aid the Province in a process of institutional innovation that is still going on today. TIE defines territorial scenarios serving the need for regional economic development as well as the conservation of nature and landscape. A cross-border region, Trentino has a special need to harmonize economic development with the exceptional and internationally renowned value of its landscape which includes the Dolomites, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Therefore TIE set out to design regional development scenarios that integrated various topics - retail, tourism, infrastructures, nature and landscape. By testing out TIE in practice in this extraordinarily dynamic institutional context, the book makes a significant contribution to the discussion about newly emerging approaches to spatial planning that involve multidisciplinary vision, new paradigms in regional development, and institutional learning and capability in decision-making.
Smart Evaluation and Integrated Design in Regional Development
Biography
Grazia Brunetta, PhD, is Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning in the Interuniversity Department of Urban and Regional Studies and Planning at the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. Her research focuses on institutional innovations in regional and environmental planning, evaluation of territorial policies and strategic assessment in spatial planning.
’Retail policy is a key factor in territorial planning and is becoming increasingly significant as there are new territorial components and techniques. Decision makers and experts need to be supported by special evaluation and ad hoc tools. As local governments respond with integrated retail policies, this book fills an important gap by bringing together a multidisciplinary team of authors. Explanations make it accessible to anyone interested in the domain of territorial smart evaluation.’ Alex Fubini, Politecnico e Università di Torino, Italy ’This book proposes an interesting and innovative integration method, aimed at improving the integration of planning and evaluation, a topic currently arousing great interest. Particularly interesting and innovative is the relevance that the book attributes to a scenario analysis approach which employs models.’ Antonio Leone, Tuscia University, Italy
