Verona Adapt. Modelling as a Planning Instrument: Applying a Climate-Responsive Approach in Verona, Italy

Tomasi, Marika; Favargiotti, Sara; van Lierop, Martina; Giovannini, Lorenzo; Zonato, Andrea

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Verona Adapt. Modelling as a Planning Instrument: Applying a Climate-Responsive Approach in Verona, Italy

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Kent School of Architecture and Planning, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NR, UK

CRA—Carlo Ratti Associati, 10131 Turin, Italy

Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, 38123 Trento, Italy

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Sustainability 2021, 13(12), 6851; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13126851

Received: 6 May 2021 / Revised: 4 June 2021 / Accepted: 4 June 2021 / Published: 17 June 2021

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate Actions from Theory to Practice: Nature Based Solutions and Adaptive Governance Models)

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In response to the global challenges brought on by climate change, cities around the world are adapting, innovating through nature-based strategies for sustainable development. Climate adaptation requires new interdisciplinary approaches in which different disciplines as well as research and practice proactively co-create and collaborate on adaptation to reduce the ongoing effects of anthropogenic climate change. Although awareness on climate adaptation is on the rise, new approaches for urban development are still in development. Moreover, existing approaches mainly focus on local-scale levels or lack a crossover with urban and landscape planning. The present contribution offers an example of an integrated approach bridging urban climatology, landscape planning, and governance to assess and develop climate adaptation solutions linking city and district levels. The city of Verona was taken as a case study to test this approach and its implications for the development of a green and blue infrastructure with a climate-responsive master plan for the district of Verona South. Through critical reflection on the application of the approach to the case study, we aimed to identify its potentials and barriers. Based on this reflection, we provide herein recommendations on how climate modelling can be integrated into planning, as well as on how urban planners and urban climatologists can support each other in making credible and salient climate adaptation solutions. View Full-Text

Keywords: urban climate adaptation; multifunctional landscape design; urban climatology; nature-based solutions; blue and green infrastructure; ecosystem services; meteorological modelling; interdisciplinarity

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Tomasi M, Favargiotti S, van Lierop M, Giovannini L, Zonato A. Verona Adapt. Modelling as a Planning Instrument: Applying a Climate-Responsive Approach in Verona, Italy. Sustainability. 2021; 13(12):6851. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13126851

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Tomasi, Marika, Sara Favargiotti, Martina van Lierop, Lorenzo Giovannini, and Andrea Zonato. 2021. "Verona Adapt. Modelling as a Planning Instrument: Applying a Climate-Responsive Approach in Verona, Italy" Sustainability 13, no. 12: 6851. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13126851

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Marika Tomasi

Marika Tomasi graduated in Architectural Engineering at the University of Trento in 2019 with a thesis on climate adaptation that combined the urban planning practice and the meteorological modelling potential. To gather different perspectives about her research, she spent a three-month exchange period at the Technical University of Munich. After a brief working experience in landscape planning, now she is an Early Stage Researcher for the European Industrial Doctorate project SOLOCLIM: her research is developed at the Kent School of Architecture and Planning, University of Kent in Canterbury (UK) and at the design and innovation office CRA – Carlo Ratti Associati in Turin (IT). With her research on climate-responsive systems, she aims to promote urban adaptation and improve outdoor climate conditions with a multi-scale approach.

Sara Favargiotti

Sara Favargiotti is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering of the University of Trento. She is specialized in landscape urbanism and ecological design with a specific focus on emerging infrastructures. Her research and teaching investigates the multiple identities of the landscape, focusing on the environmental challenges with a research-by-design approach based on transformation through anticipation, adaptation, and innovation. Having earned her M.Arch in Architecture at the University of Genoa (2009) and Ph.D. in Architectural, Landscape and Urban Design at IUAV (2014), she has been a visiting scholar at numerous universities (Barcelona, 2013; Hannover, 2015; Harvard, 2016). Since 2018, she has been a member of the Directive Board of the Italian Academic Society of Landscape Architecture. Currently, she is coordinator of the Trentino hub of the MIUR-PRIN research project “BRANDING4RESILIENCE”. She is the author of numerous essays internationally published and of the book Airports On-hold. Towards Resilient Infrastructures.

Martina van Lierop

Martina van Lierop has been a research associate at the Chair of Strategic Landscape Planning and Management at the Technical University of Munich since 2016. In 2006, she obtained her Bachelor's degree in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Management at Larenstein University of Applied Sciences (NL). Alongside starting her professional career as landscape architect, she graduated in 2011 from the Master Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning program at Wageningen University (NL). During her career, she gained experience in transdisciplinary research and practice in several projects in Europe and South America. As an ISOCARP member, she participated in several workshops in Belarus, Russia, China, Palestine, and Poland. In her research work, she focuses on approaches, strategies, and methods for the governance and implementation of green infrastructure and related concepts such as nature-based solutions in collaborative and participatory processes.

Lorenzo Giovannini

Lorenzo Giovannini is assistant professor at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering of the University of Trento (Italy), where he obtained his PhD in Environmental Engineering with the thesis “Urban scale phenomena and boundary layer processes in mountain valleys”. His research interests include the study of atmospheric boundary layer processes typical of mountainous regions and the evaluation of microclimatic alterations induced by urban areas, by means of both numerical modeling and experimental campaigns. He is involved in different research projects, focusing on the improvement of meteorological simulations over complex and urban terrain for different applications, such as pollutant dispersion, renewable energy, and building energy consumption. On these topics he is the author of several articles published in international peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Andrea Zonato

Andrea Zonato is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering of the University of Trento (Italy). His research interests include the modeling of atmospheric boundary layer processes at the meso- and microscales. In particular, he focuses on the understanding of atmospheric dynamics in complex terrains, such as mountain slopes and valleys, on the quantification of the modification induced by urban areas, and human footprints on the surrounding environment, and on the effect of mitigation strategies that can be employed within a city in order to improve the thermal comfort and decrease the energy consumption by buildings.

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