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Piergiuseppe Pontrandolfi (1953), architect, is an associate professor of Urban Planning and Technique at the DiCEM (Department of European Mediterranean Cultures) of the University of Basilicata in Matera. He carries out research on urban and territorial policies and on new forms and instruments of territorial governance. He is a member of research groups in the context of European projects on the issues of local development and territorial planning, and President of the Cultural Association - OnLus CULTURE and TERRITORI and Coordinator of the CAST project (Active Citizenship for the Sustainable Development of the Territory). He has written essays and articles in Italian and international journals in the sector, as well as being the author of some publications. He is a member of the board of the Regional Section of the National Institute of Urban Planning from 1982 and of the National Board from 1982 to 1996. From 1995 to 1999, he was Councilor for Urban Planning of the Municipality of Potenza. From 2003 to 2006, he was coordinator of the second level University Master promoted by the University of Basilicata on "New tools for governance and management of the territory". Curator for the Librìa publisher of the "Territory and Culture of Piano" series.
The European Union’s Cohesion Policy is the most important structural policy in terms of financial commitment, geographical size and time frame, aimed at redistributing wealth between regions and countries, to stimulate growth in areas whose development is lagging behind. The reach of the investments prompted the EU Commission to promote an impact evaluation of the European Structural Funds (SF); however, the impact evaluation of EU programs is almost neglected in the Italian regions. This paper is based on the results developed within the RI.P.R.O.VA.RE project and is aimed at defining an impact evaluation of EU SF and other regional funds, based on evidence derived from the analysis of a specific case study in the Agri Valley area (Basilicata, Italy). To develop the impact evaluation process, the euro amounts of all the individual policies organized according to the themes of the New Urban Agenda (NUA), the impact indicators and the trend for the municipalities are considered together, in order to obtain an overall trend for the entire case study area. An important result is achieved above all in the methodological approach to impact evaluation: the municipal territorial scale is taken into account; the maps illustrate the use of resources; regardless of the type of funding source since there is a comparison between the priority axes of the funds with the NUA issues; and indicators are developed with open data available at a national level. This experiment makes it possible to detect that, even in the face of significant investments, some substantial aspects that are part of the policy objectives remain unchanged or even worsen.
Piergiuseppe Pontrandolfi; Priscilla Sofia Dastoli. Comparing Impact Evaluation Evidence of EU and Local Development Policies with New Urban Agenda Themes: The Agri Valley Case in Basilicata (Italy). Sustainability 2021, 13, 9376 .
AMA StylePiergiuseppe Pontrandolfi, Priscilla Sofia Dastoli. Comparing Impact Evaluation Evidence of EU and Local Development Policies with New Urban Agenda Themes: The Agri Valley Case in Basilicata (Italy). Sustainability. 2021; 13 (16):9376.
Chicago/Turabian StylePiergiuseppe Pontrandolfi; Priscilla Sofia Dastoli. 2021. "Comparing Impact Evaluation Evidence of EU and Local Development Policies with New Urban Agenda Themes: The Agri Valley Case in Basilicata (Italy)." Sustainability 13, no. 16: 9376.
The work is focused on the integration of space syntax analysis (SSA) in a process of participatory planning focused on a neighbourhood scale where the challenge of promoting pedestrian-friendly regeneration process is a bottom-up priority. The promotion of active mobility is one of the main themes of the urban regeneration project CAST operating on the western part of the city of Potenza (capital of the Basilicata region, Italy). Both the state of the art of the case study area and the potential effects of the intervention proposed on the basis of the participatory process have been assessed by SSA as a walkability assessment method. By measuring a street network’s syntactic parameters, it was possible to further enrich the cognitive framework relating to the current situation and to simultaneously evaluate the effects (in terms of potential movement and social usage) deriving from design interventions. The paper presents a methodology to evaluate the urban pedestrian environment and to provide an insight for walking-related intervention and improvements in neighbourhood-scale planning, according to a participatory approach. The research, based on specific local characteristics, represents a transferable approach to supporting and informing policy-makers and designers engaged in inclusive and participative urban regeneration projects.
Francesco Scorza; Giovanni Fortunato; Raffaella Carbone; Beniamino Murgante; Piergiuseppe Pontrandolfi. Increasing Urban Walkability through Citizens’ Participation Processes. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5835 .
AMA StyleFrancesco Scorza, Giovanni Fortunato, Raffaella Carbone, Beniamino Murgante, Piergiuseppe Pontrandolfi. Increasing Urban Walkability through Citizens’ Participation Processes. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (11):5835.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFrancesco Scorza; Giovanni Fortunato; Raffaella Carbone; Beniamino Murgante; Piergiuseppe Pontrandolfi. 2021. "Increasing Urban Walkability through Citizens’ Participation Processes." Sustainability 13, no. 11: 5835.
Territorial transformations are currently influenced by the combination of multi-scale processes that generate complex change dynamics. In particular, we focus on the emerging conflicts between CO2 reduction policies and the preservation of natural and ecosystem values on a the local scale. Global policies stimulate a generalized effort in promoting the transition towards a low carbon economy, and a relevant component of such a development process is connected with Renewable Energy Sources (RES). Such technological settlement processes in low density areas generate relevant impacts. This paper discusses an ex-post-impact assessment methodology based on cumulative ecosystem services losses in a specific study area: the Melfi municipality in the Basilicata region (Italy). The proposed methodology, starting from a temporal evolution of RES plants, considers the ecosystem services estimation based on InVEST tools in order to deliver spatial multicriteria maps of the resulting territorial impacts. These results allowed to clarified the limits of a local sectorial planning approach and highlighted the opportunities offered by performance-based planning in assessing alternative transformation scenarios. The conclusions regard policy implications towards a multidimensional performance-based planning system where alternative low carbon transition scenarios could be compared in order to take into account territorial specializations and identity assets as a tool to drive decision-making in a sustainable planning perspective.
Francesco Scorza; Angela Pilogallo; Lucia Saganeiti; Beniamino Murgante; Piergiuseppe Pontrandolfi. Comparing the territorial performances of renewable energy sources' plants with an integrated ecosystem services loss assessment: A case study from the Basilicata region (Italy). Sustainable Cities and Society 2020, 56, 102082 .
AMA StyleFrancesco Scorza, Angela Pilogallo, Lucia Saganeiti, Beniamino Murgante, Piergiuseppe Pontrandolfi. Comparing the territorial performances of renewable energy sources' plants with an integrated ecosystem services loss assessment: A case study from the Basilicata region (Italy). Sustainable Cities and Society. 2020; 56 ():102082.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFrancesco Scorza; Angela Pilogallo; Lucia Saganeiti; Beniamino Murgante; Piergiuseppe Pontrandolfi. 2020. "Comparing the territorial performances of renewable energy sources' plants with an integrated ecosystem services loss assessment: A case study from the Basilicata region (Italy)." Sustainable Cities and Society 56, no. : 102082.
Federico Amato; Piergiuseppe Pontrandolfi; Beniamino Murgante. Supporting planning activities with the assessment and the prediction of urban sprawl using spatio-temporal analysis. Ecological Informatics 2015, 30, 365 -378.
AMA StyleFederico Amato, Piergiuseppe Pontrandolfi, Beniamino Murgante. Supporting planning activities with the assessment and the prediction of urban sprawl using spatio-temporal analysis. Ecological Informatics. 2015; 30 ():365-378.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFederico Amato; Piergiuseppe Pontrandolfi; Beniamino Murgante. 2015. "Supporting planning activities with the assessment and the prediction of urban sprawl using spatio-temporal analysis." Ecological Informatics 30, no. : 365-378.
The role of the participation has assumed a key dimension in all processes of physical planning and economic planning in the urban scale to the regional scale. Technological innovation, the spread of internet and mobile, have generated significant innovations compared to the models of management of participatory processes and interaction with communities and citizens. A critical element of strong within these processes is the ability to manage the information produced by the community (real and / or virtual) in order to develop guidelines and shared visions for the city and the territory. The paper analyses this issue in reference to a project proposal aimed at the development of participatory processes multi-scalar within the Project CAST (Active Citizenship for Sustainable Development of the Territory), selected by the Region Basilicata inside of a contract for the development of innovative and creative activities. The project aims to develop creative and innovative processes in the planning of the city and the territory they see the broad involvement of the population and local actors. The proposal is a first contribution to the operating institution of “Urban Center” in the two main urban centers of the Region Basilicata: Potenza and Matera “European Capital of Culture - 2019”. This is attributable to a 2.0 approach the ability of citizens to define the project of the territory in which they live and work, contributing to the definition of a scenario shared for the promotion of local development projects and the development of urban regeneration policies
Francesco Scorza; Piergiuseppe Pontrandolfi. Citizen Participation and Technologies: The C.A.S.T. Architecture. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2015, 747 -755.
AMA StyleFrancesco Scorza, Piergiuseppe Pontrandolfi. Citizen Participation and Technologies: The C.A.S.T. Architecture. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2015; ():747-755.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFrancesco Scorza; Piergiuseppe Pontrandolfi. 2015. "Citizen Participation and Technologies: The C.A.S.T. Architecture." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 747-755.