Mauro Berta

Politecnico di Torino | polito · Department of Architecture and Design

Malling in the United States was characterized by the construction of large shopping centers in the suburbs of the city, in close connection with the urban sprawl. These retail spaces have undergone a severe crisis resulting in their closure since the 1990s. In response to this phenomenon, the so-called "demalling" practice has spread intending to...

As it is well known, in Western countries cities are experiencing negative effects due to decentralization and deindustrialization, that have brought economic crisis and urban decline. In order to contrast such decline, urban regeneration is getting more and more important in the current political agenda. In fact, urban regeneration means not only...

This paper proposes an integrated evaluation approach as a support tool for the design of urban regeneration operations in historic centers, and it highlights the need for innovative assessment and design strategies useful for generating greater involvement and community awareness. In particular, the study proposes an Embedded Mixed-Methods Approac...

The proposed study focuses on the investigation of the role of evaluation approaches in the governance of urban-regeneration operations with particular reference to the Multicriteria Analysis methods (Figueira et al. in Multiple criteria decision analysis: state of the art surveys. Springer, New York, 2005). There is, in fact, a strong need to take...

This paper presents the early results of a study aimed at experimenting an innovative approach to the design and the evaluation of complex urban transformation processes, based on the combined use of different design strategies and tools. The purpose of the paper is to illustrate, by means of a case study, a multi-level decision aiding process, abl...

The paper presents a methodology for describing in generative terms the structure of urban fabrics: the objective is to transfer conceptually the knowledge about the domain of urban space into a hierarchical and interrelated semantic structure with relevant concepts, elements and their mutual relationships, providing explicit and unambiguous defini...