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Nowadays effective systems for monitoring, reporting, and evaluation appears to be relevant for governments to enhance urban-level decision-making. Indeed, monitoring the areas, plans and projects implemented in the urban environment and evaluating projects before their implementation turns out to be crucial practices for making informed decisions and supporting sustainable transitions in cities. In this context, the research project GLOSSA “GLOcal knowledge-System for the Sustainable Assessment of urban projects” of Relevant National Interest (PRIN) proposes an Indicators-Based Tool (IBTool) to support decisions in urban transformation projects, coherent with the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG11), aiming at fostering the sustainable development of Italian cities. More specifically, the output of the research foresees: a set of indicators that may be helpful for both monitoring and evaluating the sustainability of urban projects at the district and building scale; and a multicriteria evaluation tool able to manage specific set of indicators and to outline their level of importance and priority considering different territorial realities as well as multiple phases of the design problem (selection, design and monitoring). The objective of the output of GLOSSA is threefold: i) to support Public Administrations (PAs) and planners/designers in the identification of urban areas to be transformed and in the design of urban transformation projects; ii) to support PAs in the evaluation phase of the urban transformation projects to be presented; iii) to monitor the performance of the funded projects. Accordingly, the research show, through some Italian case studies, how the proposed methodology can contribute to help face the challenges of sustainability of our cities, especially from the point of view of decisions.
The IBTool is conceived as an open-source toolbox with the aim of being: i) multi-dimensional by putting together environmental, socio-economic and cultural indicators; ii) cross-scale by being applicable from a neighborhood to building scale; iii) flexible since it allows the selection of specific indicator according to the urban transformation projects; iv) expandable by providing the possibility of including further indicators that can be generated according to the changing needs or goals; v) multi-purpose understood as the possibility that each tool can be employed along with others or separately according to multiple temporal assessment phases. We observe that the primary beneficiaries of the IBTool are: i) PAs (national, regional and municipal) that will be supported in the identification of urban areas to be transformed, in the evaluation of projects and in the consequent allocation of monetary funds, as well as in monitoring the performance of the projects in an ex-post phase; ii) planners/designers that will be able to use the IBtool to define projects oriented towards sustainable development. In parallel, some secondary beneficiaries con be identified, such as: i) Master's and PhD students who will be able to be trained in new models and tools; ii) experts who will be consulted in the different project phases and will be able to find in the IBTool a platform for exchange; iii) citizens who will benefit from the innovations brought about by new project defined through the support of the IBTool, in terms of improving the quality of life in the areas that will be transformed.
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| Keywords | SDG11; Decision support system; IBTool; GLOSSA; Indicators; MCDA |
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