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Urban Resilience and Sustainability—Assessment Tools

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 937

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Benedetto Manganelli

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School of Engineering, University of Basilicata, Ateneo Lucano Avenue 10, 85100 Potenza, Italy
Interests: econometric models; mass appraisal; real estate market; risk management; urban and real estate economics; real estate investments; building management; economic valuation of real estate investment projects; environmental economics; urban sustainability; sustainability; knowledge management; corporate valuation
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Prof. Dr. Pierluigi Morano

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Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Polytechnic University of Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy
Interests: real estate valuation; urban development; valuation risk; analysis investment; valuation property; management asset; housing economics; project financing; urban economics; financial analysis; real estate management; project management; applied econometrics; environmental economics; urban sustainability
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The continuous and uncontrolled urbanization of many cities contrasts with the need for sustainable and balanced urban development that ensures or enhances environmental quality and safeguards natural, cultural, and social capital. The overestimation of population growth and the realization of a surplus of unused housing units exceeding actual demand have highlighted the need for a reconfiguration of urban planning processes. The containment of building potentials in areas, curbing indiscriminate land use, urban regeneration interventions, and the enhancement of cultural heritage aimed at limiting the loss of the "identity" of places are all urban policies aimed at achieving the economic, environmental, and social sustainability of cities.

The focus of this Special Issue is specifically directed towards interventions for the restoration, enhancement, and/or replacement of existing building stock as short/long-term strategies for improving urban sustainability and city resilience. This Special Issue aims to gather contributions on potential tools for assessing urban sustainability and resilience, discussing to what extent they can be useful in the selection of strategies aimed at achieving them.

Research areas may include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Urban sustainability assessment tools;
  • Strategies for reducing land consumption;
  • Enhancement and restoration of existing building heritage;
  • Urban regeneration;
  • Urban resilience and sustainability.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Benedetto Manganelli
Prof. Dr. Pierluigi Morano
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • urban resilience
  • sustainability
  • land consumption reduction
  • urban regeneration
  • existing building stock
  • sustainable development

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The Key Role of Floors for the Sustainability of Retrofit Interventions in Older Existing Reinforced Concrete Buildings
by Marco Vona, Angelo Anelli, Francesco Paolo Del Giudice and Benedetto Manganelli
Sustainability 2024, 16(14), 5862; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16145862 - 10 Jul 2024
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In recent decades, the seismic performance of existing reinforced concrete (RC) buildings has played a key role. Nevertheless, the performance and reliability verification of important structural elements such as floors has often been neglected. Floors are primary structural elements that can affect the [...] Read more.
In recent decades, the seismic performance of existing reinforced concrete (RC) buildings has played a key role. Nevertheless, the performance and reliability verification of important structural elements such as floors has often been neglected. Floors are primary structural elements that can affect the life cycle life of a building. However, the widespread lack of maintenance planning over time and the original construction practice (which was not always correct) are frequently the cause of unpredictable local or global collapse. In addition, although recent standards and codes recognize the importance of floors by prioritizing their verification with respect to gravitational load conditions, the verification of floor reliability with respect to the load combinations required by modern standards and codes is often not satisfied. Consequently, the intervention costs could be significantly affected by the floor conditions, and their overall amount might even discourage the implementation of interventions. The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects (in terms of sustainability) of interventions on residential RC buildings, considering the need to retrofit their existing floors. To this aim, the most vulnerable and potentially most degraded floor types are identified, and their capacity–demand relationships are evaluated. In the case of unverified floors, the main and most popular intervention methods are evaluated and related to the overall intervention costs, taking into account the main uncertainties in performance and cost predictions. The problems and critical issues of floors are key in determining the safety of the building and the cost-effectiveness (i.e., sustainability) of the retrofit intervention. Professionals and decision makers could benefit from the proposed study cost model to define intervention strategies on a regional or national scale. Full article
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