Networks, Markets & People Communities, Institutions and Enterprises Towards Post-humanism Epistemologies and AI Challenges, Volume 4

This book aims to address the issue of the effects that the contemporary environmental, technological, social and economic global challenges produce on settlement systems, communities, institutions and enterprises.

It presents a multi-disciplinary scientific debate on the new frontiers of strategic and spatial planning, decision support tools and ecological design, within the urban-rural areas networks and the metropolitan cities of the Mediterranean basin.

The book focuses on five topics: Cultural Heritage as driver of development for territories and tourism destinations; Ecosystems, people-nature cohesion and urban-rural relationships; Decision Support Systems for urban regeneration; Policies and practices of cohesion and social innovation for inclusive cities; Green buildings and sustainable solutions for ecological transition. In addition, the book hosts the papers of a special session intercluster promoted by Italian Society of Architectural Technology (SITdA).

The book benefits all researchers, practitioners and policymakers interested in the issue applied to metropolitan cities and marginal areas.

A participatory approach as a preliminary action for urban projects based on Natura based solutions.- ITACA Plus a new methodology to support urban design.- An overview of tools and methods for the research field of urban sustainable development.- Heritage Communities Urban Living Lab HeCo ULL A Circular Methodological Approach for Codesign through Social Multi Criteria Evaluation.- Prediction and Uncertainty in Social Impact Evaluation A Classification Framework.- A new tool for assessing sustainable mobility at the neighborhood level methodology.- A methodological proposal to assess proximity in functional urban areas.- Sociotechnical perspectives for data practices The impact of data driven approaches to design theory and action.- DECIDE An outcome driven decision support system for urban regional planning.