Quality of Life in Urban Landscapes

Part I. Quality of the Landscape, Quality of Life, Urban Sustainability

1. State of the Art on the Search for Sustainability and Quality of Life in Cities
Roberta Cocci Grifoni, Rosalba D’Onofrio, Massimo Sargolini

2. The Landscape as a “Complex Indicator” of Urban Sustainability and Quality of Life of City Inhabitants
Roberta Cocci Grifoni, Rosalba D’Onofrio, Massimo Sargolini

3. Use of Decision-Support Systems in Defining Scenarios for Sustainable, Shared Urban Development
Roberta Cocci Grifoni, Rosalba D’Onofrio, Massimo Sargolini

Part II. Urban Policies and Quality of Life

4. Urban Policies for Urban Sustainability and Quality of Life of the City
Rosalba D’Onofrio, Massimo Sargolini, Michele Talia

5. Selection of Indicators of Urban Sustainability and Quality of Life of City Inhabitants
Rosalba D’Onofrio, Massimo Sargolini, Michele Talia

Part III. Contributions for the Evaluation of Urban Policies and Quality of Life

6. Distinctive and Pleasant – Transformative Concepts in Landscape Ecology: Social Ecological Green Spaces (SEGS)
Marco Cervellini, Giandiego Campetella, Stefano Chelli, Roberto Canullo

7. Distinctive and Pleasant – Urban morphology and urban identity: landscape perception
Chiara Camaioni

8. Efficient and Nice – Dimensions, Characteristics, and Forms for an Inclusive, Responsible City
Maria Federica Ottone

9. Efficient and Nice – Urban Metabolism and Outdoor Comfort
Monica Rossi

10. Efficient and Nice – Land Consumption and Urban Decay
Ilenia Pierantoni

11. Efficient and Nice – Urban Sustainability and Quality of Life: The Socioeconomic Perspective
Massimo Battaglia, Nora Annesi

12. Efficient and Nice – Urban Accessibility and Public Transport
Andrea Renzi, Piersebastiano Ferranti

13. Efficient and Nice – Social Capital and Services of Public Interest: The Quest for a Metric for Urban Quality of Life
Luca Cetara

14. Clean and Healthy – Protected Areas, Biodiversity, and Management of Natural Resources
Paolo Perna, Roberta Caprodossi

15. Clean and Healthy – Built Environments and Health: Quality of Life in an Urban Context
Iolanda Grappasonni

16. Clean and Healthy – Natural Hazards and Resources
Carlo Bisci, Bernardino Gentili, Alessio Acciarri, Gino Cantalamessa, Giorgio Pancrazio, Massimiliano Fazzini, Alessandro Fusari, Matteo Gentilucci, Maria Chiara Invernizzi

17. Clean and Healthy – Waste Collection and Waste Management
Barbara Fenni

Part IV. A Decision-Support System

18. The DSS and Its Possible Applications
Rosalba D’Onofrio, Massimo Sargolini, Michele Talia

19. The QLandQLife Tool
Mariano Pierantozzi, Roberta Cocci Grifoni

20. The QLandQLife Forum
Rosalba D’Onofrio, Massimo Sargolini

21. For a New Urban Governance
Rosalba D’Onofrio, Massimo Sargolini, Michele Talia

22. Communication and Dissemination of the Model
Marta Magagnini

Part V. Application to the Adriatic City

23. The Ideal Adriatic City
Chiara Camaioni, Lucilla Prospero, Rosalba D’Onofrio, Ilenia Pierantoni, Andrea Renzi, Massimo Sargolini

24. Application of the Tool and Criteria for Activating the Forum
Roberta Cocci Grifoni, Rosalba D’Onofrio, Massimo Sargolini

25. Interaction with Decision-Makers
Rosalba D’Onofrio, Massimo Sargolini

Part VI. New Research Frontiers

26. Urban Agriculture for Urban Regeneration in the Sustainable City
François Mancebo

27. Healthy Cities and Urban Planning: The QLandQLife Model as Input for Experimentation
Elio Trusiani

28. Urban-Planning Tactics and Strategies in New Decision-Making Processes
Michele Talia

29. Participatory Methods for Identifying Stakeholder Perspectives on Urban Landscape Quality
Matthijs Hisschemöller

30. Heritage as an Active Space and Spatial Resource
Mladen Obad Šćitaroci

31. Urbanscape Emanation vs. Types of Landscape
Bojana Bojanić

32. The Combined Use of Environmental and Experiential Simulations to Design and Evaluate Urban Transformations
Barbara E. A. Piga

33. Strategies of Landscape Restoration and City Naturalizing
Francesco Domenico Moccia, Gilda Berruti

34. Territorial and Urban Recovery Design: In Search of a Contribution to Sustainable Planning
Vincenzo Riso

35. Quality of Governance and Quality of Life
Massimo Sargolini

Nyckelord: Geography, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Sustainable Development, Quality of Life Research, Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis, Urban Ecology