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Prof. Anna Maria Colavitti
DICAAR, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture, University of Cagliari, Via Santa Croce 67, 09124 Cagliari, Italy

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Journal article
Published: 29 June 2021 in Sustainability
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In Italy, after the introduction of the Code of Cultural Heritage and Landscape in 2004, the Regional Landscape Plan (RLP) has acquired a coordination role in the urban planning system, for the implementation of policies for landscape protection and valorisation. The case study of the RLP of Sardinia is a paradigmatic application to the coastal area of the island, which is considered most vulnerable and subject to settlement pressure. The objectives of preservation and valorisation of the territorial resources should be transferred into local planning instruments by adopting strategies aimed at the preservation of the consolidated urban fabric, at the requalification and completion of the existing built-up areas according to the principles of land take limitation and increase in urban quality. The paper investigates the state of implementation and the level of integration of landscape contents in the local plans that have been adapted to the RLP, using a qualitative comparative method. In addition, the results of the plan coherence checks, elaborated by the regional monitoring bodies after the adaptation process, have been analysed to identify the common criticalities and weaknesses. The results highlight the lack of effectiveness of the RLP, after more than a decade since its approval, considering the limited number of adequate local plans and the poor quality of their analytical and regulative contents in terms of landscape protection and valorisation. Conclusions suggest some possible ways to revise the RLP, focusing on the participation of local communities and the development of a new landscape culture.

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Anna Colavitti; Alessio Floris; Sergio Serra. Mind the Gap: Why the Landscape Planning System in Sardinia Does Not Work. Sustainability 2021, 13, 7300 .

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Anna Colavitti, Alessio Floris, Sergio Serra. Mind the Gap: Why the Landscape Planning System in Sardinia Does Not Work. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (13):7300.

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Anna Colavitti; Alessio Floris; Sergio Serra. 2021. "Mind the Gap: Why the Landscape Planning System in Sardinia Does Not Work." Sustainability 13, no. 13: 7300.

Journal article
Published: 02 April 2021 in Journal of Settlements and Spatial Planning
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Landscape has acquired great importance in the urban and territorial policies of European countries after the European Landscape Convention. Italy has a long tradition in the protection of landscape and cultural heritage, characterised by a particular attention to the history and the identity culture of the communities. The main rule in this field, the Code of Cultural Heritage and Landscape of 2004 (Urbani Code), refers to a mix of environmental, cultural, and social factors belonging to different types of natural and urban landscapes that Regional Landscape Plans have to identify, sharing with local communities. The most important innovation concerns the attempt to overcome the binding and regulatory approach, only focused on protection constraints, in order to generate high awareness about the identity value of landscape and to encourage a more democratic community participation in the landscape policies. The ineffectiveness of landscape policies is often due to the lack of sharing of the landscape vision and planning approaches established at regional level, with local authorities and settled communities. This paper reflects on the topic of inter-institutional collaboration between national, regional, and local authorities, by focusing on the process of adaptation of urban local plans to the regional landscape plans and comparing different regional contexts. The article highlights a strong delay in the approval of regional landscape plans and a relevant inter-institutional conflict in the co-planning phase with the national authority, leading to the ineffectiveness of landscape plans in the transfer of regional landscape planning guidelines to the local landscape scale, with relevant consequences on territorial government, between conservative measures and transformation drivers.

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Anna Maria Colavitti; Sergio Serra. Regional Landscape Planning and Local Planning. Insights from the Italian Context. Journal of Settlements and Spatial Planning 2021, SI, 81 -91.

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Anna Maria Colavitti, Sergio Serra. Regional Landscape Planning and Local Planning. Insights from the Italian Context. Journal of Settlements and Spatial Planning. 2021; SI (7):81-91.

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Anna Maria Colavitti; Sergio Serra. 2021. "Regional Landscape Planning and Local Planning. Insights from the Italian Context." Journal of Settlements and Spatial Planning SI, no. 7: 81-91.

Journal article
Published: 27 October 2020 in City, Territory and Architecture
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In Europe, the debate on the recovery of the historic centres has been developed, over the years, around the balance between conservation and transformation needs in order to meet the new demands of the contemporary world. In the field of urban planning, the strictly conservative and binding approach has gradually been supported by flexible and consensual mechanisms that act as a stimulus to private initiative in the redevelopment and regeneration of the historic urban landscape. The consolidated Italian experience in the policies for the protection and enhancement of historical settlements is being significantly innovated after the entry into force of the Urbani Code, which extends the character of landscape heritage to the historic urban fabric, transferring to the regional authorities the task of establishing the specific regulations for its use and transformation. The Region of Sardinia has achieved an important role in the implementation of policies for the recovery and redevelopment of the historic centres identified by the Regional Landscape Plan (RLP). The common and consolidated practice is still characterized by the use of traditional regulative instruments, in particular the detailed plan, which provide rules for the requalification of the compromised urban fabrics through a set of rules and guidelines to be applied to the replacement of recent buildings and the renovation of urban patterns that for density, ratios between solids and voids, heights, alignments and elevations are incompatible with the values of the context. The constraint and binding approach is effective in the conservation strategies but often inadequate to implement actions of integrated redevelopment of urban fabric altered by new buildings in contrast with the historic urban landscape features, also due to the global crisis situation and the shortage of public funding. The paper proposes the use of the non-financial compensation tool, based on the granting of bonus development rights to realising on site or in alternative locations, in order to encourage urban regeneration projects that also involve the replacement of buildings incompatible with historical urban landscape morphological patterns. The integration of a methodology for assessing the financial feasibility of the demolition and reconstruction of the incompatible structures in the planning process, as tested in the case study of Villasor municipality, has allowed the elaboration of a model to support the use of a compensation mechanism for the redevelopment of historical settlement values. In this perspective, the paper aims to investigate the opportunities provided by market-oriented and flexible approaches to support and promote private urban regeneration projects. In particular, it illustrates the experimental results of a methodology for the analysis of the urban fabric that takes into account the factors influencing the feasibility of the intervention of demolition and reconstruction of the incompatible buildings. Finally a model for the assessment of any bonus in terms of additional building capacity is suggested, to be granted to private operators as an incentive to ensure the cost-effectiveness of the project.

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Anna Maria Colavitti; Sergio Serra. Non financial compensation for the redevelopment of the historic urban landscape: the case study of Villasor in Sardinia (Italy). City, Territory and Architecture 2020, 7, 1 -15.

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Anna Maria Colavitti, Sergio Serra. Non financial compensation for the redevelopment of the historic urban landscape: the case study of Villasor in Sardinia (Italy). City, Territory and Architecture. 2020; 7 (1):1-15.

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Anna Maria Colavitti; Sergio Serra. 2020. "Non financial compensation for the redevelopment of the historic urban landscape: the case study of Villasor in Sardinia (Italy)." City, Territory and Architecture 7, no. 1: 1-15.

Conference paper
Published: 30 September 2020 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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The 2011 UNESCO Recommendation defines the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) as a stratification of historical, cultural and natural values, which broadens the notion of “historic centre” to include the social, environmental and economic components of the urban and geographical context. Italian urban planning has so far adopted a conservative and binding approach to the protection and valorisation of historic settlements. Regulatory planning tools have often failed to combine the protection of physical heritage with the general improvement of urban quality and socio-economic conditions. The limitations of traditional planning can be identified in the difficulty to interpret the urban complexity and in the lack of projects and actions monitoring. The paper investigates the critical issues arising from the application of the traditional planning models for the historic centre, focusing on the case study of the Sardinia Region. The objective of the study is to identify some fields of innovation in the use of planning tools, that take into consideration the characteristics of local contexts and the needs of communities, as recommended by UNESCO. New technologies can contribute to a regularly updated knowledge framework and to the involvement of private actors in regeneration projects. The study shows that the continuous evolution of socio-economic conditions in cities requires open and flexible decision-making based on the principles of sustainability, social inclusion and innovation. The conclusions highlight the need for a review of approaches and tools to give more dynamism and effectiveness to the planning process, including the integration of innovative methods and technologies.

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Anna Maria Colavitti; Alessio Floris; Sergio Serra. Challenges and Opportunities for the Historic Urban Landscape Planning. The Sardinia Region Case Study. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2020, 12255, 407 -421.

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Anna Maria Colavitti, Alessio Floris, Sergio Serra. Challenges and Opportunities for the Historic Urban Landscape Planning. The Sardinia Region Case Study. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2020; 12255 ():407-421.

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Anna Maria Colavitti; Alessio Floris; Sergio Serra. 2020. "Challenges and Opportunities for the Historic Urban Landscape Planning. The Sardinia Region Case Study." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 12255, no. : 407-421.

Chapter
Published: 23 July 2020 in Bioregional Planning and Design: Volume II
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The chapter offers a contribution to investigate the possibility to connect the bioregional model to the Sardinia region. To do this, the author explores the history of Sardinian planning system and economic programming starting from the Rebirth Plan ‘political season’ in the fifties to the latest Landscape Regional Plan. First, the work focused on the conditions that allowed the birth and growth of Rebirth Plan in Sardinia. This important phase established the industrialisation as the dominant development model for 30 years. The Sardinian territory has been the mirror of the crisis of that model, and it was unable to reconnect the potential and capabilities of community for a long time. The historical background is necessary for understanding the structural invariants of a bioregional approach and to determine through which tools of governance the bioregional project could best express its potential role. The relation between urban and rural must be enhanced to examine the disciplinary contaminations with the cultural ecosystem services approach, which could inquire the immaterial and intangible aspects of the relationship between ‘living place’ and communities. To change the paradigm from a top down ‘welfarism’ to a bottom-up governance, an integration of ecosystem analysis methodologies within the planning tools could be coherent and realised.

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Anna Maria Colavitti. Building the Territory of Resilience. Present and Future Perspectives of the Bioregional Experience in Sardinia. Bioregional Planning and Design: Volume II 2020, 189 -205.

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Anna Maria Colavitti. Building the Territory of Resilience. Present and Future Perspectives of the Bioregional Experience in Sardinia. Bioregional Planning and Design: Volume II. 2020; ():189-205.

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Anna Maria Colavitti. 2020. "Building the Territory of Resilience. Present and Future Perspectives of the Bioregional Experience in Sardinia." Bioregional Planning and Design: Volume II , no. : 189-205.

Journal article
Published: 20 March 2020 in Sustainability
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Human well-being is determined by multiple factors related to health, social relations, safety, environment, landscape, cultural heritage, and quality of services. The Italian planning system provided a set of “urban standards”, in terms of threshold values of areas per inhabitant destined for public services and facilities. The application of urban standards, for a period of more than fifty years, did not result in a broad improvement of life quality in the urban areas. This paper discusses the issue of urban facilities in Italy in order to evaluate the opportunity to innovate traditional standards according to the environmental and ecological paradigm, focusing on the benefits provided to humans by natural ecosystems, the so-called ecosystem services (ESs). The paper investigates the evolution of the Italian planning practice through the introduction of quality standards and innovative tools able to meet the ever-changing social demand. The research aims to verify if the ES concept is really implemented in the Italian planning practice and if the ecosystem approach has a real impact on political decision-making. Using a comparative method, four case-studies of urban municipal plans are selected and analyzed in order to identify different approaches and possible fields of innovation. The research highlighted a lack of integration of ecosystem services approach in the land use decisions, although there is an in-depth survey on the state of conservation of ecological and environmental resources. The local experiments of qualitative standards represent an attempt to deal with specific ecological emergencies, namely flood risk, air, water, and soil pollution, and loss of biodiversity. Conclusions discuss, from an international perspective, the need to revise the traditional planning approach in the field of public services and facilities, taking into account the influence of ecosystem services on human well-being.

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Anna Maria Colavitti; Alessio Floris; Sergio Serra. Urban Standards and Ecosystem Services: The Evolution of the Services Planning in Italy from Theory to Practice. Sustainability 2020, 12, 2434 .

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Anna Maria Colavitti, Alessio Floris, Sergio Serra. Urban Standards and Ecosystem Services: The Evolution of the Services Planning in Italy from Theory to Practice. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (6):2434.

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Anna Maria Colavitti; Alessio Floris; Sergio Serra. 2020. "Urban Standards and Ecosystem Services: The Evolution of the Services Planning in Italy from Theory to Practice." Sustainability 12, no. 6: 2434.

Journal article
Published: 30 January 2020 in City, Territory and Architecture
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A considerable environmental turbulence pushes cultural and creative firms to cluster and to adopt new forms of cross-integration. An issue common also to wider entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) of SMEs. This evolutionary trend has given birth to a new generation of cultural districts defined as system-wide cultural districts (SWCDs) in which culture acts like a lever for all production sectors and not merely the cultural one, as in the past. The paper investigates the internal nested geographies of SWCDs through a comparative analysis of the district policies implemented by Italian Regions from 2000 to 2015 providing a new classification of cultural districts that updates the existing ones and reflecting on the links between SWCDs, urban policies and landscape planning.

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Anna Maria Colavitti; Alessia Usai. Inside the system-wide cultural district: a new relational and organisational taxonomy of cultural districts based on the sector policies by Italian Regions (2000–2015). City, Territory and Architecture 2020, 7, 1 -26.

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Anna Maria Colavitti, Alessia Usai. Inside the system-wide cultural district: a new relational and organisational taxonomy of cultural districts based on the sector policies by Italian Regions (2000–2015). City, Territory and Architecture. 2020; 7 (1):1-26.

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Anna Maria Colavitti; Alessia Usai. 2020. "Inside the system-wide cultural district: a new relational and organisational taxonomy of cultural districts based on the sector policies by Italian Regions (2000–2015)." City, Territory and Architecture 7, no. 1: 1-26.

Journal article
Published: 05 August 2019 in Journal of Place Management and Development
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Purpose In last year, the innovations in shipbuilding and logistics have opened the walled towns of Mediterranean port cities to cruise tourism and other culture-led regeneration strategies. Thus, walled towns in Mediterranean port cities have a particular development potential which questions about the opportunities and risks connected to any comprehensive regeneration strategy with a cultural and tourist purpose, especially for fortified systems whose continuity has been undermined. The paper aims to provide some guidelines for policy-makers and planners in port cities which have decided or are deciding to develop a comprehensive strategy and a knowledge framework for the walled town similar to those already adopted for fortified sites in the World Heritage List. Design/methodology/approach The paper investigates on the opportunities and risks connected to any comprehensive regeneration strategy with a cultural and tourist purpose for the walled towns through a comparative analysis of four Mediterranean seaport cities, selected as case studies. Cities which have developed an integrated strategy to inscribe their walled towns to the UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Findings On the base of the case studies’ analysis, the paper proposes a critical reflection upon the management strategies for the UNESCO’s walled towns and supports a better understating of context factors as a way to strengthen the HUL approach when applied to Mediterranean seaport cities. Originality/value The paper sheds light on the application of the historic urban landscape approach to the walled towns of Mediterranean seaport cities. The paper is original because it provides: guidelines for policy-makers and planners in walled towns of Mediterranean seaport cities which have decided or are deciding to develop a comprehensive regeneration strategy for the city centre in line with those adopted in UNESCO’s fortified sites; a critical reflection upon the context factors which can strengthen the HUL approach when applied to Mediterranean seaport cities; criteria to update the HUL approach by UNESCO in analysing the conservation state, the managerial aspects, the participation and social aspects of walled towns.

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Anna Maria Colavitti; Alessia Usai. Applying the HUL approach to walled towns of Mediterranean seaport cities. Journal of Place Management and Development 2019, 12, 338 -364.

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Anna Maria Colavitti, Alessia Usai. Applying the HUL approach to walled towns of Mediterranean seaport cities. Journal of Place Management and Development. 2019; 12 (3):338-364.

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Anna Maria Colavitti; Alessia Usai. 2019. "Applying the HUL approach to walled towns of Mediterranean seaport cities." Journal of Place Management and Development 12, no. 3: 338-364.

Journal article
Published: 19 February 2019 in Land Use Policy
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Using natural land for the transformation of settlements into extensive and sprinkled agglomerations is particularly clearly seen in the urban and the metropolitan contexts. The European Union provisions will move the European Countries towards the target of zero land-take by 2050, including regulatory measures and incentives to pursue this goal. This paper proposes to assess the effectiveness of the regulatory approach adopted by Italy for landscape planning. In particular, the Landscape Plan developed by Sardinia Region will be analysed. This one aims at limiting the urban expansion for the construction of new housing units only as a result of actual housing requirements that cannot be met only through the recovery and reuse of areas. Focusing on the case of Cagliari metropolitan city, the study assesses the increase in the urbanised areas as well as the incoherence among the demographic trends – the housing needs and the planning of new residential expansion in the municipal urban plans adapted to the Regional Landscape Plan. The research highlights the ineffectiveness of landscape planning regulation in the reduction of land-take phenomenon and the need for a strategy at the supra-municipal scale to coordinate urban demand planning.

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Anna Maria Colavitti; Sergio Serra. THE ROLE OF REGULATION IN THE LAND-TAKE CONTROL. THE ITALIAN CASE OF THE METROPOLITAN CITY OF CAGLIARI. Land Use Policy 2019, 83, 270 -281.

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Anna Maria Colavitti, Sergio Serra. THE ROLE OF REGULATION IN THE LAND-TAKE CONTROL. THE ITALIAN CASE OF THE METROPOLITAN CITY OF CAGLIARI. Land Use Policy. 2019; 83 ():270-281.

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Anna Maria Colavitti; Sergio Serra. 2019. "THE ROLE OF REGULATION IN THE LAND-TAKE CONTROL. THE ITALIAN CASE OF THE METROPOLITAN CITY OF CAGLIARI." Land Use Policy 83, no. : 270-281.

Journal article
Published: 01 October 2018 in ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI
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Anna Maria Colavitti; Sergio Serra. Pianificazione paesaggistica e contenimento del consumo di suolo. Il caso dell'area metropolitana di Cagliari. ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI 2018, 75 -100.

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Anna Maria Colavitti, Sergio Serra. Pianificazione paesaggistica e contenimento del consumo di suolo. Il caso dell'area metropolitana di Cagliari. ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI. 2018; (122):75-100.

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Anna Maria Colavitti; Sergio Serra. 2018. "Pianificazione paesaggistica e contenimento del consumo di suolo. Il caso dell'area metropolitana di Cagliari." ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI , no. 122: 75-100.

Articles
Published: 08 August 2018 in Planning Practice & Research
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Scientific literature points out the need for the heritage conservation disciplines to influence the research on the Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) in urban ecosystems. However, there are still some unclear points in this linkage that our study investigates through a comparative analysis of the integrated planning tools for the landscape and cultural heritage produced by Tuscany and Apulia, the most advanced Italian regions in this field. The paper encourages a debate on the techniques and indicators related to the cultural capital that the policy makers and researchers should consider when implementing the CES assessment for the urban ecosystem planning.

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Anna Maria Colavitti; Alessia Usai; Sergio Serra. Towards an Integrated Assessment of the Cultural Ecosystem Services in the Policy-Making for Urban Ecosystems: Lessons from the Spatial and Economic Planning for Landscape and Cultural Heritage in Tuscany and Apulia (IT). Planning Practice & Research 2018, 33, 441 -473.

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Anna Maria Colavitti, Alessia Usai, Sergio Serra. Towards an Integrated Assessment of the Cultural Ecosystem Services in the Policy-Making for Urban Ecosystems: Lessons from the Spatial and Economic Planning for Landscape and Cultural Heritage in Tuscany and Apulia (IT). Planning Practice & Research. 2018; 33 (4):441-473.

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Anna Maria Colavitti; Alessia Usai; Sergio Serra. 2018. "Towards an Integrated Assessment of the Cultural Ecosystem Services in the Policy-Making for Urban Ecosystems: Lessons from the Spatial and Economic Planning for Landscape and Cultural Heritage in Tuscany and Apulia (IT)." Planning Practice & Research 33, no. 4: 441-473.

Chapter
Published: 03 January 2018 in The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods
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This chapter sets out the cultural references of a peculiar research approach, starting from the concept of memory in the Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome which shapes the concepts of environment and landscape. According to the imitation of the nature principles, mimesis, the canons of beauty have been established to lay down the foundations of the aesthetics of fine arts, to represent the form, the measure, and the harmony. These concepts are rediscovered in the Modern Renaissance to invent the Western landscape, i.e., the elaboration of the view, through which the landscape becomes exactly cultural space, and this way it opens itself to the outside offering a global picture where there is no single desire to be in the limelight, but everything is the main subject and has the leading role. It is in the nineteenth century with Camillo Sitte’s work that the city is finally seen as a complex cultural good. And the invention of the environment as object of planning surely comes from the Anglo-Saxon world. National Trust, Council for the protection of rural England, and Friends of the Earth are all names which evoke the main interest in opening a broad debate between man and nature.

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Anna Maria Colavitti. Building the Process of Knowledge. The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods 2018, 1 -33.

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Anna Maria Colavitti. Building the Process of Knowledge. The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods. 2018; ():1-33.

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Anna Maria Colavitti. 2018. "Building the Process of Knowledge." The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods , no. : 1-33.

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Published: 03 January 2018 in The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods
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This chapter argues that a multidisciplinary approach leads to a constructive comparison between the legacy of the historical-memorial processes immanent to the city and territory and the current visible forms of the landscape, which are the result of such processes. From silent to speaking territory which is seat of collective identity, starring role of the process of identification of a community, able to show its vocations and to direct its transformations. In such territory, there’s the city. From the Mediterranean sacred city inside the temenos or sacred enclosure, which differentiated what is interior (sacre) and external (heathen) to the enclosure, to the current city which is the result of historical stratification and must be open to the territory and its transformations. A multidisciplinary approach is a must be blueprint to new urban planning, the only one able to intercept contemporary complexity and to canalize it in the urban project.

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Anna Maria Colavitti. Development of a Multidisciplinary Approach. The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods 2018, 55 -80.

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Anna Maria Colavitti. Development of a Multidisciplinary Approach. The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods. 2018; ():55-80.

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Anna Maria Colavitti. 2018. "Development of a Multidisciplinary Approach." The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods , no. : 55-80.

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Published: 03 January 2018 in The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods
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This chapter delves the concept of the multi-layered city. According to the stratigraphic method in archaeology, the city as complex cultural good is the result of the stratification of uses. The study of the context is of the utmost importance to urban planning and cultural heritage conservation. Building process of historic city and territory can be better investigated and understood through the use of topographic method. Based on historic topography, it helps to analyze the consequences of the juxtaposition of a monument in a territory. Urban planning should use archaeological knowledge and topographic method to interpret the marks of the urban transformation through the reading and the knowledge of city’s form and historic human presence that shape historic-morphological identity of places.

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Anna Maria Colavitti. The Instrumental Use of the Process of Knowledge. The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods 2018, 35 -53.

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Anna Maria Colavitti. The Instrumental Use of the Process of Knowledge. The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods. 2018; ():35-53.

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Anna Maria Colavitti. 2018. "The Instrumental Use of the Process of Knowledge." The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods , no. : 35-53.

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Published: 03 January 2018 in The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods
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This chapter deals with a specific case study: the Framework Plan for Historical Centre Recovery of Cagliari. The multidisciplinary approach is applied to valorize the contribution of the fields of major interest in support of the development of the urban planning discipline: environmental history, urban sociology, historical-morphological analysis based on the archeology of the preexistences and on historical topography. All these disciplines somehow imply a decoding of their epistemological codes and of their technical instrumentation which can serve as an equipment of the cultural device useful for the analysis to carry out in the field of the territorial and urban planning.

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Anna Maria Colavitti. The New Interdisciplinary Frontiers. The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods 2018, 121 -146.

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Anna Maria Colavitti. The New Interdisciplinary Frontiers. The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods. 2018; ():121-146.

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Anna Maria Colavitti. 2018. "The New Interdisciplinary Frontiers." The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods , no. : 121-146.

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Published: 03 January 2018 in The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods
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This chapter focuses on influencing factors which are able to shape values. History and laws are impressive influencing factors. Prior to unification of Italy, the call to public utilitas of Cultural Good has always influenced political and juridical debate since the XVIII century first phase of making cultural heritage protection and conservation law. A reasoned historic normative excursus, from 1462 Pope Pius II’s Bull “Cum alman nostram Urbem” to current Cultural Heritage and Landscape Code, passes in review the historical and current Italian set of rules which represent the evolution of conservation and preservation principles in a country which is universally recognized as the hosting place of the 40% of the world cultural heritage.

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Anna Maria Colavitti. Influencing Factors on Cultural Good and Heritage. The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods 2018, 81 -119.

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Anna Maria Colavitti. Influencing Factors on Cultural Good and Heritage. The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods. 2018; ():81-119.

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Anna Maria Colavitti. 2018. "Influencing Factors on Cultural Good and Heritage." The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods , no. : 81-119.

Journal article
Published: 24 May 2017 in Papers in Regional Science
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In recent years many countries all over the world adopted a variety of preservation tools and market-oriented solutions to contain land consumption. Among these countries Italy slowly began to incorporate the principles of the free market into the urban planning programmes. The United States Transfer of development rights programmes (TDR) represent a reference point for a market-based approach in the field of environmental preservation policies. In this paper we compared the criteria successfully adopted by the US TDR programmes to the specifications adopted by the municipal plans of three important Italian cities (Milan, Rome and Florence) and we discussed their efficacy to control the urban growth.

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Anna Maria Colavitti; Sergio Serra. The transfer of development rights as a tool for the urban growth containment: A comparison between the United States and Italy. Papers in Regional Science 2017, 97, 1247 -1265.

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Anna Maria Colavitti, Sergio Serra. The transfer of development rights as a tool for the urban growth containment: A comparison between the United States and Italy. Papers in Regional Science. 2017; 97 (4):1247-1265.

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Anna Maria Colavitti; Sergio Serra. 2017. "The transfer of development rights as a tool for the urban growth containment: A comparison between the United States and Italy." Papers in Regional Science 97, no. 4: 1247-1265.

Case report
Published: 17 August 2015 in Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development
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Purpose – Literature on cultural districts has repeatedly pointed out the role of place branding as a tool to upgrade the image of urban environment as an indicator of meaning and significance. Throughout the case of UNESCO’s mining heritage district in Sardinia (Italy), the purpose of this paper is to investigate on the role that Place Branding Organizations (PBOs) has and/or may have in the construction of coherent images for landscape and cultural heritage in the design of “sustainable” cultural districts in connection with local authorities’ agenda. At this purpose, the authors propose an operative definition of “partnership building strategy” and a new analytic framework to evaluate PBO’s activity within place branding theory. Design/methodology/approach – Considering what recently expressed by UNESCO about the integration between spatial and cultural planning, the authors focus the research on cultural heritage districts protected by this organization. Starting from the definition of strategy proposed by Anholt (2011) and the participation-based approach outlined by Hankinson (2010), the authors propose a new analytic framework to evaluate PBO’s activity and the authors try to apply it to the experience of mining heritage in Sardinia (Italy), comparing the activity of local PBOs (the Consortium for the UNESCO’s Sardinian Geo-mining Park and the Local Tourism System) with the Development Plan of the Carbonia-Iglesias Province. In the final part of the work, the authors discuss the outcomes of the comparative analysis in terms of partnership building strategy and its influence on cultural heritage district design. Findings – The experience of the Sardinia district proves that partnership building strategy has a relevant role both in place branding and cultural heritage district design but it is not sufficient to make this letter really functioning. It confirms also that a place brand can survive to political regime changes on a periodic basis only if the PBO establishes an appropriate institutional framework for the creation of a cooperative network that can take the branding process forward. The research finding about place branding of UNESCO’s mining heritage sites, outline the demand for a new and more integrated approach in the district design, inspired to the geographic studies on “cultural basin.” Research limitations/implications – The analytical framework which the authors provide on the basis of a new operative definition of partnership strategy building, has proved to be a useful tool to assess PBO’s activity but, despite this, it represents only a partial result because the theoretical model of the relationships between PBOs, local and supra-local actors requires further developments to describe the effective type and nature of this links. Practical implications – The research finding about place branding of UNESCO’s mining heritage sites, outline the demand for a new and more integrated approach in the district design, inspired to the geographic studies on “cultural basin.” To achieve a real sustainable development and a shared enhancement of identity and landscape, the authors propose as a possible solution the abandonment of administrative boundaries in cultural planning through a correspondence between cultural district and historic region, this latter defined according to the methods and tools developed by the geographical sciences for the “cultural basin.” At this scope the authors propose a new methodological framework which takes the participation-based place branding into the “cultural heritage chain” for the district design, setting a future research agenda. Originality/value – The authors propose an operative definition of “partnership building strategy” for the participation-based approach outlined by Hankinson (2010) and, on this base, the authors test a new analytic framework to evaluate PBOs’ activity which combines the traditional activities of promotion and marketing with PBOs’ partnership strategies. Finally, the authors propose a methodological frame which brings the participation-based place branding into the “cultural heritage chain” setting a future research agenda in cultural heritage district’s design.

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Anna Maria Colavitti; Alessia Usai. Partnership building strategy in place branding as a tool to improve cultural heritage district’s design. The experience of UNESCO’s mining heritage district in Sardinia, Italy. Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development 2015, 5, 151 -175.

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Anna Maria Colavitti, Alessia Usai. Partnership building strategy in place branding as a tool to improve cultural heritage district’s design. The experience of UNESCO’s mining heritage district in Sardinia, Italy. Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development. 2015; 5 (2):151-175.

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Anna Maria Colavitti; Alessia Usai. 2015. "Partnership building strategy in place branding as a tool to improve cultural heritage district’s design. The experience of UNESCO’s mining heritage district in Sardinia, Italy." Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development 5, no. 2: 151-175.

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Published: 01 August 2013 in ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI
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Anna Maria Colavitti; Sergio Serra. Il piano particolareggiato per il recupero del centro storico di Cagliari. prime considerazioni critiche sulla proposta di piano. ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI 2013, 74 -106.

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Anna Maria Colavitti, Sergio Serra. Il piano particolareggiato per il recupero del centro storico di Cagliari. prime considerazioni critiche sulla proposta di piano. ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI. 2013; (107):74-106.

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Anna Maria Colavitti; Sergio Serra. 2013. "Il piano particolareggiato per il recupero del centro storico di Cagliari. prime considerazioni critiche sulla proposta di piano." ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI , no. 107: 74-106.

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Published: 01 February 2013 in European Planning Studies
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This article aims to highlight and, whenever possible, demonstrate that the urban general plan is still the instrument of the utmost importance to trigger and steer urban transformations. Within the current Italian context, the article examines the characteristics, contradictions, weaknesses and opportunities of urban planning set of rules and practices and tries to propose concrete answers to questions and issues strictly connected that affect the municipality's urban planning: how to manage and govern a contemporary metropolis or city agglomeration, the concerns associated with overlapping jurisdictions and different rules for various hierarchical administrative levels, the costs of social and common services, the need to include in the urban plan the possible use of European Union Structural Funds, the real estate market affecting new development and urban regeneration programmes and investments. All these aspects should be included in a unifying and strong planning instrument, the urban plan, which could address and steer effectively the urban planning policies and their governance.

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Anna Maria Colavitti; Nicola Usai; Sandra Bonfiglioli. Urban Planning in Italy: The Future of Urban General Plan and Governance. European Planning Studies 2013, 21, 167 -186.

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Anna Maria Colavitti, Nicola Usai, Sandra Bonfiglioli. Urban Planning in Italy: The Future of Urban General Plan and Governance. European Planning Studies. 2013; 21 (2):167-186.

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Anna Maria Colavitti; Nicola Usai; Sandra Bonfiglioli. 2013. "Urban Planning in Italy: The Future of Urban General Plan and Governance." European Planning Studies 21, no. 2: 167-186.