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Dr. Mara Ladu
University of Cagliari, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture

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Conference paper
Published: 11 May 2021 in Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
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The Italian political-administrative geography defined by Law 52/2014, which established metropolitan cities as a new governance body, requires the adoption of new approaches in economic planning and in the definition of spending objectives with reference to European and national funding. The EU funding programme 2014–2020 is coming to an end. Therefore, this makes it possible to develop a first analysis of the expenditure relating to cohesion policy themes at regional, provincial/metropolitan and municipal level, to assess performance in view of the new period of European Union (EU) funding programme. In fact, the European institutions are currently in the process of drafting the new Cohesion Policy 2021–2027, which will have to face and resolve difficulties encountered in the previous phase, through three key rules: simplicity, flexibility and efficiency. The ambition is to make the EU Countries intelligent, sustainable and increasingly inclusive economies. Three priorities that mutually reinforce each other to achieve high levels of employment, productivity and social cohesion in Member States. The aim is to analyze the expenditure related to cohesion policy (Environment and Research and Innovation sectors) in the last two period of EU funding programme in order to drive the new strategic decisions for the future period (2021–2027).

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Ginevra Balletto; Luigi Mundula; Alessandra Milesi; Mara Ladu. Ex Post Evaluation of Cohesion Policies in the Strategic Planning of Italian Metropolitan Cities: Analysis for the Development of New Strategies. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering 2021, 329 -337.

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Ginevra Balletto, Luigi Mundula, Alessandra Milesi, Mara Ladu. Ex Post Evaluation of Cohesion Policies in the Strategic Planning of Italian Metropolitan Cities: Analysis for the Development of New Strategies. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering. 2021; ():329-337.

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Ginevra Balletto; Luigi Mundula; Alessandra Milesi; Mara Ladu. 2021. "Ex Post Evaluation of Cohesion Policies in the Strategic Planning of Italian Metropolitan Cities: Analysis for the Development of New Strategies." Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering , no. : 329-337.

Journal article
Published: 09 January 2021 in Sustainability
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Accessibility and Walkability represent, today, some of the most striking challenges contemporary cities are facing, particularly in light of the goals from UN Agenda 2030, aimed at a sustainable city, and particularly in terms of a livable, healthy and inclusive city. This can be also performed thanks to a set of high quality public services and a set of important and central services and infrastructures. These principles, however, are constrained by an overall, general fragmentation affecting many urban areas, particularly as an outcome of the vehicular accessibility needs. Scholars have debated through the years on the nature of cities and on the preference for centrality of services compared to the distribution of services towards dispersed neighborhood units. Recently, a need for a wider, minimum set of services that is easily reachable to most citizens is filling the scholars and city mayors’ agendas in order to improve urban performances. This is also coupled with a huge surge in the heritage of abandoned urban items coming from previous periods of time and alternative uses. The aim of this research is to evaluate the role of abandoned urban assets—particularly big-size buildings and compounds and their areas—to facilitate the implementation of the concept of a 15-minute city, a city that is capable of granting a wider social equality and access to main urban services to citizens and city users. To do this, we developed a set of indexes, capable of detecting porosity, crossing and attractiveness. This latter index in particular represents a combined index that can be used to improve the accessibility of pedestrians in urban central locations. In the present research, we decided to limit the analysis to a subset of disused public buildings in the historic center of a sample city, as Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy). This was done in order to understand if and in which terms they can contribute, after their redevelopment, to the development of the 15-minute city, as well as reducing the “enclave–effect: they are, at present, playing in the historic urban fabric.

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Ginevra Balletto; Mara Ladu; Alessandra Milesi; Giuseppe Borruso. A Methodological Approach on Disused Public Properties in the 15-Minute City Perspective. Sustainability 2021, 13, 593 .

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Ginevra Balletto, Mara Ladu, Alessandra Milesi, Giuseppe Borruso. A Methodological Approach on Disused Public Properties in the 15-Minute City Perspective. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (2):593.

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Ginevra Balletto; Mara Ladu; Alessandra Milesi; Giuseppe Borruso. 2021. "A Methodological Approach on Disused Public Properties in the 15-Minute City Perspective." Sustainability 13, no. 2: 593.

Preprint
Published: 15 December 2020
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Urban accessibility represents one of the great challenges of the contemporary city, which is required to adopt sustainable development models in line with the UN Agenda 2030 objectives, recently confirmed by the health emergency. Urban accessibility and walkability are topics closely related to those aiming at a livable, healthy and inclusive city, based on a system of high-quality public spaces and on a network of services and infrastructures. However, these principles collide with the fragmentation of many urban contexts, built following vehicular accessibility needs. Within this framework, the city of Cagliari represents an interesting case study as it is affected by the disposal of public properties which appear as “enclaves” in the historic urban fabric. This research aims to evaluate if and in which terms the abandoned assets can facilitate the development of the 15-minutes city, as a city reducing the need to move over a certain time and space and therefore granting a more equal access to urban services to a wide range of citizens. This is done by proposing indexes defined as porosity, crossing and attractiveness, which constitute a combined index to improve the pedestrian accessibility in the “central places” of the contemporary city, where the walkability can also become a possible “free choice” for a new healthy lifestyle. These indexes were calculated for the most significant large disused public buildings in the historic center to guide future scenarios towards a 15 minutes city.

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Ginevra Balletto; Mara Ladu; Alessandra Milesi; Giuseppe Borruso. A Methodological Approach on Disused Public Properties in the 15-Minute City Perspective. 2020, 1 .

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Ginevra Balletto, Mara Ladu, Alessandra Milesi, Giuseppe Borruso. A Methodological Approach on Disused Public Properties in the 15-Minute City Perspective. . 2020; ():1.

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Ginevra Balletto; Mara Ladu; Alessandra Milesi; Giuseppe Borruso. 2020. "A Methodological Approach on Disused Public Properties in the 15-Minute City Perspective." , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 01 December 2020 in Journal of Urban Planning and Development
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Public real estate management (PREM) is at the center of international debate concerning the theories of New Public Management (NPM) and public governance (PG). These principles have progressively led to a profound restructuring of the public administration system and have overcome several limits assigned to public bodies in the PREM field. Among these, the lack of data and information on the public real estate (PRE) portfolio has been considered a common issue for prereform asset management until very recently. Deficiencies in building real property inventories are normal today in most places and in Italy, where municipalities are facing many challenges when developing information technology–based infrastructures. The main aim of this study is to define a conceptual framework for a city dashboard to support PREM. The city dashboard is understood to be a knowledge, managerial, and participatory tool that can collect, map and catalog, and update and share property data. This can be used to support the integration of PREM in urban governance policies and to involve citizens and private investors (PIs) in urban regeneration projects.

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Mara Ladu. The Role of City Dashboards in Managing Public Real Estate in Italy: Proposals for a Conceptual Framework. Journal of Urban Planning and Development 2020, 146, 04020047 .

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Mara Ladu. The Role of City Dashboards in Managing Public Real Estate in Italy: Proposals for a Conceptual Framework. Journal of Urban Planning and Development. 2020; 146 (4):04020047.

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Mara Ladu. 2020. "The Role of City Dashboards in Managing Public Real Estate in Italy: Proposals for a Conceptual Framework." Journal of Urban Planning and Development 146, no. 4: 04020047.

Conference paper
Published: 30 September 2020 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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The 2014–2020 European programming is coming to an end with numerous critical issues that will have to be resolved by 2023, both with reference to spending power and with reference to performance evaluation. The European institutions are currently in the process of drafting the new Cohesion Policy 2021–2027, which will respond to the difficulties encountered in the previous programming through three key rules: simplicity, flexibility, efficiency and transparent administrative processes. The ambition of the new programming is to make the countries of the European Union smart, sustainable and increasingly inclusive economies. Three priorities that mutually reinforce each other to help achieve high levels of employment, productivity and social cohesion in the Member States. In this context, the present study intends to evaluate the “smart specialization” (S3 strategy) deriving from the 11 thematic objectives (or sectors of intervention), in particular that of the “environment”, in the 2007–2013 and 2014–2020 periods, through the Local Indicators of Spatial Association (LISA), thus identifying areas of intelligent specialization.

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Ginevra Balletto; Luigi Mundula; Alessandra Milesi; Mara Ladu. Cohesion Policies in Italian Metropolitan Cities. Evaluation and Challenges. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2020, 12255, 441 -455.

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Ginevra Balletto, Luigi Mundula, Alessandra Milesi, Mara Ladu. Cohesion Policies in Italian Metropolitan Cities. Evaluation and Challenges. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2020; 12255 ():441-455.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Ginevra Balletto; Luigi Mundula; Alessandra Milesi; Mara Ladu. 2020. "Cohesion Policies in Italian Metropolitan Cities. Evaluation and Challenges." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 12255, no. : 441-455.

Conference paper
Published: 30 September 2020 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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The process of economic transition from the old to the new economy produces significant effects also on cities and territories. The change in the production cycles has led to numerous and significant phenomena of delocalization and consequent abandonment of buildings and infrastructures, according to the markets. In Italy, starting from the 70 s, the divestment of industrial areas and the more recent Federalism Law have increased the interest on reuse of public properties as an act proper to municipal urban planning. However, the public real estate management (PREM) and the choice of new urban functions to be assigned represents a difficult challenge still today, at all levels of government, including that of the Metropolitan Cities (MCs), established by the Delrio Law. MCs, which define development strategies in a medium-term period through the Metropolitan Strategic Plan (SP), represent a great opportunity to integrate PREM and public policies objectives. Within this framework, the aim of the present study is to evaluate meaning and roles recognized to the public assets in the SP drawn up by the Metropolitan City of Milan (MCM) - Lombardy Region - and in the ongoing SP of the Metropolitan City of Cagliari (MCC) - Sardinia Region. The qualitative and quantitative analysis of the two case studies allows authors to make considerations on the multiple roles that public real estate can play in the context of strategic planning to pursue sustainable development of territories.

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Mara Ladu; Ginevra Balletto; Alessandra Milesi; Luigi Mundula; Giuseppe Borruso. Public Real Estate Assets and the Metropolitan Strategic Plan in Italy. The Two Cases of Milan and Cagliari. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2020, 12255, 472 -486.

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Mara Ladu, Ginevra Balletto, Alessandra Milesi, Luigi Mundula, Giuseppe Borruso. Public Real Estate Assets and the Metropolitan Strategic Plan in Italy. The Two Cases of Milan and Cagliari. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2020; 12255 ():472-486.

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Mara Ladu; Ginevra Balletto; Alessandra Milesi; Luigi Mundula; Giuseppe Borruso. 2020. "Public Real Estate Assets and the Metropolitan Strategic Plan in Italy. The Two Cases of Milan and Cagliari." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 12255, no. : 472-486.

Conference paper
Published: 30 September 2020 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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Nautical tourism market and especially the sector of yachting and marinas is very dynamic. It contributes decisively to the development of local economies of Mediterranean countries and Northern Europe cities. Particularly, marinas (specially designed harbors with moorings for pleasure yachts and small boats) development takes place in coastal areas, which are generally fragile and threatened environments. On one hand marinas are highly desirable for development of recreation and tourism infrastructure, but from the other they are threatened by climate change impacts due to sea level rise. Moreover, marinas are the most complex and highest quality types of port for nautical tourism. They facilitate many nautical tourism activities by providing safe points to access to the water and providing secure locations to store boats. Many marinas also provide additional nautical and ancillary leisure activities and can be visitor attractions in their own right. They also create demand for boating and other tourism products and services and facilitate linkages between nautical and coastal tourism. They have the potential to act as economic hubs for regional development and can catalyze the development of coastal tourism in specific locations. In this perspective, the role of marinas could be reconsidered, transforming them in smart gateway able to push in sustainable way local and regional economy moving the touristic flows from the coastal to the internal areas.

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Luigi Mundula; Mara Ladu; Ginevra Balletto; Alessandra Milesi. Smart Marinas. The Case of Metropolitan City of Cagliari. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2020, 12255, 51 -66.

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Luigi Mundula, Mara Ladu, Ginevra Balletto, Alessandra Milesi. Smart Marinas. The Case of Metropolitan City of Cagliari. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2020; 12255 ():51-66.

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Luigi Mundula; Mara Ladu; Ginevra Balletto; Alessandra Milesi. 2020. "Smart Marinas. The Case of Metropolitan City of Cagliari." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 12255, no. : 51-66.

Conference paper
Published: 01 September 2020 in Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes
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The reuse of public real estate assets has long been at the core of the political agendas of various governments, called upon to develop strategies to restore functionality to a substantial number of buildings and open spaces subjected to divestment phenomena. This is an arduous challenge because of the effects generated by the 2008 economic and financial crisis, but also because of the difficulty of public entities in identifying new uses that meet the needs of contemporary society. To deal with these issues, Italian politics has implemented a series of initiatives aimed at applying the principle of subsidiarity, introduced by the Constitution itself. Horizontal subsidiarity is the basis for testing new social innovation practices aimed at promoting social inclusion, creativity and youth employment. This contribution aims to demonstrate that public real estate can represent an extraordinary resource to support bottom-up initiatives and to redesign the urban geography of a new collaborative welfare system. After examining the state of the art, the contribution analyzes the main tools adopted to regulate forms of care and collaborative management of urban common goods, which constitute the basis for supporting new social innovation practices. The QuxQu project represents an interesting experiment of applied design thinking that opens up new reflections on the possibility of guaranteeing an economic sustainability of the process and its diffusion in the local context, also in order to activate virtuous processes of reuse of public real estate assets and regeneration of entire neighborhoods (The paper derives from the join reflections of authors. However, Sects. 1 and 2 can be attributed to Ladu M.; Sects. 3 and 4 to Bernardini S.; Sects. 5 to Ladu M., Bernardini S.).

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Mara Ladu; Silvia Bernardini. Opportunities and Challenges of Social Innovation Practices in Urban Development and Public Real Estate Management. Italy as a Case Study. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2020, 1012 -1022.

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Mara Ladu, Silvia Bernardini. Opportunities and Challenges of Social Innovation Practices in Urban Development and Public Real Estate Management. Italy as a Case Study. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2020; ():1012-1022.

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Mara Ladu; Silvia Bernardini. 2020. "Opportunities and Challenges of Social Innovation Practices in Urban Development and Public Real Estate Management. Italy as a Case Study." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes , no. : 1012-1022.

Journal article
Published: 28 April 2020 in Sustainability
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Spatial planning and territorial promotion can benefit largely from the application of the Information Communication Technology (ICT) at different scales. From knowledge acquisition to management and planning, their role in building an image of the territory, and constantly updating it to the benefit of users and planners, is of paramount importance. Institutional channels, together with social networks, are the means by which both a local community and a wider community of users share experiences and perceptions. ICTs are therefore strategic in supporting and promoting a sustainable tourism development of territories. Data and information aggregators as dashboards represent examples of decision support systems where digital data are organized and processed to produce an information output. The present paper is part of a wider research, related to the valorization of a former mining area in the Sulcis-Iglesiente area (Sardinia, Italy), where the extraction activity has left the place to abandonment, and only recently to tourism, stressing the concept of slow tourism. Such new opportunity has been launched with the Santa Barbara Walk (SBW), an ancient mining route currently trying to consolidate as a tourism attraction area. Such a territory is in constant transition with unique characters of anthropic and naturalistic characterization, setting itself as a green infrastructure, capable also of attracting a wide community of regional and extra-regional users. However, its digital network—consisting of intangible infrastructure and flows—is fragmented in terms of policies and contents. Additionally, a state of disorganization in slow tourism promotion activities can be observed. To implement the SBW capabilities, the present paper aims to develop a proposal for the framework of a circular dashboard applied to the SBW. In particular, we implement a set of indicators of performance of the SBW for the organization of information on the walk’s main characters, to facilitate a shared governance and an effective tourism promotion. The SBW is recognized as a network connecting the main points of interest preferred by the slow tourism (This paper is based on the Research project TSULKI—Tourism and Sustainability in the Sulcis (Sardinia-Italy)—and on the agreement protocol between DICAAR Department of Cagliari University and Foundation of the Santa Barbara Walk, signed in December 2018).

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Ginevra Balletto; Alessandra Milesi; Mara Ladu; Giuseppe Borruso. A Dashboard for Supporting Slow Tourism in Green Infrastructures. A Methodological Proposal in Sardinia (Italy). Sustainability 2020, 12, 3579 .

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Ginevra Balletto, Alessandra Milesi, Mara Ladu, Giuseppe Borruso. A Dashboard for Supporting Slow Tourism in Green Infrastructures. A Methodological Proposal in Sardinia (Italy). Sustainability. 2020; 12 (9):3579.

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Ginevra Balletto; Alessandra Milesi; Mara Ladu; Giuseppe Borruso. 2020. "A Dashboard for Supporting Slow Tourism in Green Infrastructures. A Methodological Proposal in Sardinia (Italy)." Sustainability 12, no. 9: 3579.