Francesca Abastante

Choice architecture concerns different forms and procedures to present and handle a decision problem. It is a paradigm around which many theoretical results have been collected within behavioural psychology and experimental economics and many successful applications have been implemented in the domains of health, finance and social choices. In this work, we propose an application of the basic idea of architecture choice that is designing decision support procedures for complex problems, with a focus on housing realm.

The volume comprises aselection of the best paperspresented at the SIEV Seminar“The influence of the Papal

We propose a development of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) permitting to use the methodology also for decision problems with a very large number of alternatives and several criteria.

The article illustrates a piece of research concerning the development and application of display platforms (Spatial Decision Support System - SDSS) able to integrate assessment methods of financial and economic nature. The aim of the proposed SDSS platform is to support the development of urban scenarios focusing attention on improving energy conditions at district level in service of public and private policies.

The “Chiomonte SMART” is a project managed by the association Chiomonte ImprenD’Oc and funded by “Comitati Territoriali IREN” as a prosecution of the “Chiomonte 2025” project concluded in 2018.

Our cities represent the crucial nodes of interventionto improve living conditions and promote sustainability.Therefore, the current pandemic, combined with theclimate emergency, translates into an urban emergency.In light of the devastating effects of Covid-19 and therethinking of the concept of sustainability, the goal ofdeveloping inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainablecities and human settlements pursued by theSustainable Development Goal 11 may now requirerevision in terms of the indicators used for it

To achieve the international emission reduction targets, current researches underline the need to overcome the dominant techno-centric approaches to energy transition, in favor of analyses that explore in more detail those practices and organizational assets that play a role in favoring a transition towards a low-carbon society. In this light, the article focuses on governance practices and, in particular, on the different tools and actors involved across variable scales and temporalities.

The urban planning and evaluation literature suggests that making a walkable city means creating a resilient and healthy city. In recent years, alternative mobility has been the subject of numerous studies, showing that the concept of urban walkability can be used as an additional support in planning resilient cities. Though researchers agree that walkability assessment has a positive impact on public space planning, it is still difficult to include the topic in planning strategies because of its novelty in the scientific debate.

The paper shows how multiple criteria decision aiding (MCDA) tools can support the analyses of six hypotheses of adaptive reuse of an iconic historical building in Turin, Italy (called stock exchange) to identify the preferred alternative. In the last 2 years, the debate around the requalification of the building has been huge for several reasons: it is perceived as a “monument” by citizens; it shows architectural and typological values nationally recognized; it involves public and private interests.

This paper is built on the following research questions: (i) What are the direct/indirect relationships between Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG11) and sustainability protocols? (ii) Could the sustainability protocols constitute a solution towards the achievement of SDG11?