Grazia Brunetta

Risks are growing dynamics of urban daily life in the twenty-first century. It mainly affects cities because their rapid and often unplanned expansion exposes a large number of people to unexpected events. For the purpose of considering urban vulnerabilites, an increasing number of cities is engaging in designing adaptation plans and strategies focused on resilience, which is acknowledged as one of the top priorities of the development agenda and a primary guiding principle of policy governance of our time.

In the last decade, the value of big data for social sciences is declared to be high for its social impact. This kind of data is currently applied to create a wealth of constantly updating information that in the spatial domain are generally used to support decision making.

Climate change is a prominent concern of the 21th-century daily life so much that cities worldwide have been widely engaged in contrasting it. In this scenario, urban resilience is becoming one of the top priorities of development agendas and a guiding principle of the policy governance of contemporary cities. This paper discusses the spread of the urban resilience paradigm within the field of Italian spatial planning focusing in particular on the national approach to adaptation and the recent - and unique - experiences of Bologna and Ancona local plans.

Today cities are particularly vulnerable to any kind of pressures. The increase in urban complexity requires a better understanding of physical urbanization, and parallelly a shift in how cities are linked to environmental dynamics. Tackling the urban complexity requires a socio-ecological system-view where cities appear living and dynamic systems, whose processes and structures are interacting over time at morphological, ecological and socio-cultural levels.

Urban resilience - namely the capacity of a territorial system to persist, adapt or transform in the face of pressure - calls for an adaptive approach to planning, able to face uncertainty and unpredictability. Evaluation plays a key role to support a "learn-by-doing approach", providing tools and methods able to sustain the definition of territorial and landscape policies under a resilience perspective. The present article illustrates an experimentation developed on a real-world case study in Trentino Region.

The Clean Energy Package is aimed at making the energy transition recommended by the European Union more competitive. Such an energy transition can be achieved through a variety of measures aimed at improving the security, sustainability and competitiveness of energy supply systems. These measure include the introduction of physical and regulatory infrastructures that are adequate to satisfy the energy market requirements, integrate renewable energies and ensure security of the energy supply.

Turin, 24-26 July 2019