Città europee e nuove forme di pianificazione. Il caso di Bologna

Il tema centrale di questo lavoro è costituito dalle nuove forme di pianificazione territoriale in uso nelle principali città europee, con particolare riferimento all'esperienza della pianificazione strategica applicata al governo del territorio, e dall'analisi approfondita delle politiche e degli strumenti di pianificazione urbanistica e territoriale della città di Bologna, dal Piano Regolatore Generale del 1985-'89 al nuovo Piano Strutturale Comunale del 2008. Più precisamente, le caratteristiche, potenzialità e criticità del nuovo strumento urbanistico del capoluogo emiliano-romagnolo, vengono esaminati, non solo, in rapporto alle caratteristiche tipiche dei piani strategici europei, ma anche alle forme tradizionali della pianificazione urbanistica (i piani regolatori generali) di cui il piano strutturale dovrebbe superare i limiti, sia in termini di efficacia operativa, sia per quanto riguarda la capacità di costruire condivisione e consenso tra i diversi attori urbani, sull'idea di città di cui è portatore. The main topics of this research are the new tools for urban planning used by the main European cities - with particular reference to strategic planning applied to the territorial management - and the analysis of Bologna policies and instruments for urban and territorial planning, from the Piano Regolatore Generale '85-'89, to the Piano Strutturale Comunale in 2008. More precisely, the Bologna new planning instrument's characteristics, potentialities and criticalities, are not only investigated in relation to the fundamental characteristics of European strategic plans, but also to the traditional instruments of Italian urbanistic planning (Piani Regolatori Generali), of which the new structural plan should exceed the limits, both in terms of effectiveness; and in terms of ability to build agreement and sharing on its urban project, between different urban actors.

Quality assessment of a landslide inventory map and its application to land‐use planning. A case study in the Northern Apennines (Emilia‐Romagna region, Italy)

Landslide hazard and risk are growing as a consequence of climate change and demographic pressure. Land‐use planning represents a powerful tool to manage this socio‐economic problem and build sustainable and landslide resilient communities. Landslide inventory maps are a cornerstone of land‐use planning and, consequently, their quality assessment represents a burning issue. This work aimed to define the quality parameters of a landslide inventory and assess its spatial and temporal accuracy with regard to its possible applications to land‐use planning. In this sense, I proceeded according to a two‐steps approach. An overall assessment of the accuracy of data geographic positioning was performed on four case study sites located in the Italian Northern Apennines. The quantification of the overall spatial and temporal accuracy, instead, focused on the Dorgola Valley (Province of Reggio Emilia). The assessment of spatial accuracy involved a comparison between remotely sensed and field survey data, as well as an innovative fuzzylike analysis of a multi‐temporal landslide inventory map. Conversely, long‐ and short‐term landslide temporal persistence was appraised over a period of 60 years with the aid of 18 remotely sensed image sets. These results were eventually compared with the current Territorial Plan for Provincial Coordination (PTCP) of the Province of Reggio Emilia. The outcome of this work suggested that geomorphologically detected and mapped landslides are a significant approximation of a more complex reality. In order to convey to the end‐users this intrinsic uncertainty, a new form of cartographic representation is needed. In this sense, a fuzzy raster landslide map may be an option. With regard to land‐use planning, landslide inventory maps, if appropriately updated, confirmed to be essential decision‐support tools. This research, however, proved that their spatial and temporal uncertainty discourages any direct use as zoning maps, especially when zoning itself is associated to statutory or advisory regulations.