Marika Gaballo

• Polytechnic University of Turin

The centrality of cities and urban processes in sustainable development and the green transition has been recognized by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the New Urban Agenda and the Green Deal. In this context, this paper aims to explore the conceptualizations of cities that have received attention, such as “inclusive city”, “knowledge...

Sustainability and the concept of sustainable development are currently adopted as a founding paradigm of global, national and regional development strategies. As such, they necessarily permeate new visions of urban development as well, leading to reflections of economic, environmental and social sustainability in urban planning and design practice...

Within a global strategy for the pursuit of Sustainable Development, the governments are responsible for following, developing, and reviewing the 2030 Agenda at global, national, and regional levels. However, it is possible to observe a lack, acknowledged by the scientific debate, of effective implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)....

The concept of sustainable development is closely related to that of sustainability assessment, as it implies a process of evaluation of progress made over time. In this context, indicators present themselves as a key and fundamental element for measuring and evaluating the specific issues that compose the different phenomena to be monitored. Indee...

What has changed in the concept of resilient/sustainable cities and human settlements with Covid-19? When we talk about “adequate housing and basic service” today, do we have in mind the same housing and services we were thinking about before the pandemic? Nowadays, what indicators do we need to develop and monitor sustainable urban policies? The p...

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11 of the 2030 Agenda addresses issues of sustainable urban development and provides guidelines for monitoring progress, that should occur primarily at the neighborhood scale from which development begins. Thus, since the early 2000s many countries have developed Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment Tools (NSATs...

This paper is based on the following research questions: i) In which way could the discipline Economic Evaluation of Projects contribute to conveying the sustainability concept in urban settings among master’s degree students? What are the methods/techniques that can support decision processes of sustainable urban transformation? In response to the...

The significant paradigm shift that contemporary cities are experiencing in terms of economic, social and environmental issues frames the particular urgency of a transition towards more sustainable urban systems. In this context, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF) has begun to explore the possible applications of the circular economy (CE) princip...

This paper explores the enhancement of adaptive reuse (AR) of buildings through the lens of the sustainability protocols within the context of circular economy (CE) in Italy. Cities and the built environment can play a key role in the transition to a CE, especially considering the documented negative global impact due to resource consumption and wa...

This paper is built on the following research questions: (i) What are the direct/indirect relationships between Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG11) and sustainability protocols? (ii) Could the sustainability protocols constitute a solution towards the achievement of SDG11? We underline that, on the one hand, the SDGs are guidelines to support t...

This chapter is about defining and testing a multi-methodological framework able to measure the “walkability” in the urban practice perspective, based on assessment indicators and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Nowadays, cities are facing a complex challenge concerning sustainability, which is fueling the search for new development solutions...

One of the most important problems to face over the past thirty years is how to make cities sustainable and resilient, with the overall changes that are affecting cities, resulting from the constant urbanization of the current century. In this perspective, designing walking networks is important to create a functional and multi-modal city in transp...

The urban planning and evaluation literature suggests that making a walkable city means creating a resilient and healthy city. In recent years, alternative mobility has been the subject of numerous studies, showing that the concept of urban walkability can be used as an additional support in planning resilient cities. Though researchers agree that...