Land Planning and Urban Regeneration for Achieving Sustainable Development: 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce a Special Issue of Land entitled "Land Planning and Urban Regeneration for Achieving Sustainable Development: 2nd Edition".

The structure and organization of the city are increasingly being investigated, especially considering the current challenges (i.e., climate change, COVID-19 pandemic), accentuated by the ongoing health emergency. This has highlighted (and is still highlighting) the need to accelerate the transition towards more sustainable development.

The debates on urbanization and culture are intertwined. Some international organizations (such as UNESCO and ICOMOS) and scientific studies emphasize the crucial role that culture can play in the achievement of sustainable development. Furthermore, the United Nations recognizes cultural heritage and landscape as important factors for urban sustainable development in many points of the 2030 Agenda and of the New Urban Agenda.

Although there are many theoretical studies regarding the role of cultural heritage and landscape in sustainable development, there are fewer studies that concretely demonstrate the multidimensional benefits (economic, socio-cultural and environmental) produced by their conservation and regeneration.

The aim of this Special Issue is to investigate the contribution of cultural heritage and landscape to the achievement of sustainable development goals, also considering the current challenges that are changing the common vision about them (also in terms of use, accessibility, etc.). The urgency caused by these challenges has greatly accelerated the speed of transformational trends, allowing the identification of solutions that could be effective in the long term, regardless of the current health emergency.

In this context, evaluation tools, land planning, governance strategies, business and financial models play a fundamental role.

Current evaluation approaches are mostly sectoral, mainly focusing on individual dimensions (economic, social, environmental) rather than their interrelationships.

Considering the multiplicity of values and stakeholders involved in the cultural heritage and landscape conservation and regeneration processes, the produced impacts require adequate evaluation tools, such as multicriteria evaluation methods. The complexity of cultural heritage and landscape conservation and regeneration processes implies an interpretation of evaluation as a dynamic process.

On the basis of the above, contributions from the scientific community are welcome on issues related to the role of cultural heritage and landscape in sustainable development processes, also focusing on the implications on land planning ones, with particular reference to:

• Urban regeneration and land planning;
• Cultural heritage and landscape conservation and regeneration;
• Multicriteria evaluation;
• Sustainable cultural tourism;
• Digitalization and innovative technologies for cultural heritage;
• Participatory approaches.

Topics are suggested but not exclusive, and other proposals that address the above topic from different perspectives are welcome.

Prof. Dr. Pasquale de Toro
Dr. Francesca Nocca
Dr. Martina Bosone
Dr. Francesca Buglione
Guest Editors

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• cultural heritage
• landscape
• urban sustainable development
• urban regeneration
• land planning
• multicriteria evaluation

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