Grazia Di Giovanni

• PhD in Urban Studies
• Funzionario Architetto at Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti

The paper presents and discusses the state post-disaster reconstruction intervention (SPDRI) of the city of L'Aquila, Italy, after the 2009 earthquake. The paper argues that SPDRIs are of great interest for the study of the state and, more in particular, of the refashioning of state actions at a time of widening spatial divides and localized crisis...

This paper aims to briefly review the evolution and relationships between several NbS used in flood management, specifically: ‘Ecological Engineering’ (EE); ‘Low Impact Development’ (LID); ‘Green Infrastructure’ (GI); and ‘Building with Nature’ (BwN). Based on this temporal review, we try to describe the progression of different approaches.

PAPER AVAILABLE HERE https://www.emeraldinsight.com/eprint/FGd7ag3He3egKVd27Xft/full ABSTRACT While from one side BBB concept and principles drive toward a potential mitigation of the main risks while re-building, it results challenging to overcome the built environment re-building priorities to question whether, what and how to re-build while in...

In this chapter we discuss the ongoing post-earthquake reconstruction process of L’Aquila with a focus on the strategies put in place for the future growth of the city as a ‘knowledge-driven city’. The chapter provides insight into the institutions that characterise L’Aquila as a potential knowledge-driven city, focused largely on the effects indu...

Nature-based solutions (NBS) have been recently defined as “actions inspired by, supported by or copied from nature” – intended mainly as its features, capital and complex system processes – to address several “environmental, social and economic challenges in sustainable ways”. Their design and implementation require a multidisciplinary and multi-s...

In contemporary cities affected by nature-related risks, to build coherent paths of intervention bridging the implementation of short-term actions (for tackling urgent risks or to support post-shock reconstruction) with the definition of long-term adaptation policies (for fostering innovative forms of urban development and management) appears as an...

Ancient and recent history and studies teach us how Italy is a high risk-prone country: 6,5% of urbanized surfaces are exposed at high hydrogeological risks; 58% of residential buildings were built before the first anti-seismic building code ; more than 27 million people live currently in areas subject to earthquakes, landslides or floods. Post-dis...

Osservando oggi il cratere aquilano come area interna, emerge una “anomalia”: se il disastro ha acuito condizioni preesistenti di marginalità e spopolamento, la ricostruzione post-sismica ha anche reso disponibili risorse economiche e tecniche non-ordinarie per tali realtà fragili, rappresentando potenzialmente un momento di ridefinizione di nuovi...

Cities are the most resilient humans’ artefact, and this is due to their socio-economic capacities to persist shock and stresses. However, sometimes cities do persist but at the cost of losing key functions and modifying their development trajectories. One of the challenges of disaster resilience is indeed to merge built environment reconstruction...

In 2009, Abruzzo Region was hit by a severe earthquake which damaged the city of L’Aquila and other 56 minor municipalities already affected by trends of demographic and economic decline at the time of the disaster. This contribution focuses on the mid-term reconstruction of this “Seismic Crater” interpreted as a peculiar case in the scenario of It...

Italy and its urban systems are under high seismic and hydrogeological risks. The awareness about the role of human activities in the genesis of disasters is achieved in the scientific debate, as well as the role of urban and regional planning in reducing risks. The paper reviews the state of Italian major cities referred to hydrogeological and sei...

Italy and its urban systems are under high seismic and hydrogeological risks. The awareness about the role of human activities in the genesis of disasters is achieved in the scientific debate, as well as the role of urban and regional planning in reducing risks. The paper reviews the state of Italian major cities referred to hydrogeological and sei...

In the hybrid working contemporary landscape, the purpose of a doctoral programme should be the scientific and methodological training of multi-skilled and versatile researchers, not strictly orienting the students toward a specific academic or not academic career. This assumption seems particularly relevant for Ph.D. programmes focused on cities....

The chapters illustrate a preliminary investigation set up to draft intervention procedures with regard to the hazards and vulnerability characteristic of the "Homogeneous Area 9" (or "Area of the Snow"), union of four municipalites struck by the 2009 earthquake in Abruzzo (Italy) and resulting major risk scenarios. The reserach is part of the desi...

A Geographical Information System was developed during the design of the Reconstruction Plans for a group of municipalities struck by the 2009 earthquake in Abruzzo (Italy). GIS was an essential tool for the plans: for the management of cognitive data, monitoring of interventions, but above all to strengthen territorial cohesion through the exchang...

Maps, design principle and guidelines are designed to provide specific guidance for implementing projects and interventions defined by the post-earthquake Reconstruction Plans for the municipalities of Lucoli, Ovindoli, Rocca di Cambio and Rocca di Mezzo (Italy). The aim was to support designers and civil servants in the preparation and evaluation...