The Economic Evaluations and the Real Estate Appraisals for the Effectiveness, Feasibility and Sustainability of Urban Regeneration Measures

Abstract

The urban policies and territories live a period of profound transformation characterized by a shift to new approaches and overnance tools. The programmed public action generates an application for assessment: facing the loss of representation in politics and the increasing complexity of the variables that influence public choices, decision-makers have the absolute need for auxiliary tools to help optimize the use of resources and, at the same time, to make the decisional path shareable and transparent. When resources are scarce, the time spent during the transformation process becomes increasingly important as the rational legitimacy of choices are some of the difficult issues to solve that lead to the need to experiment with new tools to support decision makers from the early stage of planning or in the pre-design phase Saaty (1990, 2008).


In this valuation context of compatible functional solutions, the Multiple-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methodologies (Roy & Bouyssou, 1993), and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) in particular play a significant role as they enable all the intrinsic values of the assets in question to be taken into account, both economic and extra-economic. The use of these methods can provide choices that are not always based on the best cost-benefit ratio (Nesticò & Pipolo, 2015).
In addition to guaranteeing the presence and the clarification of different values, the formalisation of an evaluation process carried out in these terms and the expression of the community needs also allow for the control and the correspondence between general and specific choices to take place. Since the asset is of a particular value, it is, however, necessary that the various criteria and weights taken on the basis of the evaluation be shared by the community or rather by direct users and by potential or future users.

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Authors

Francesco Calabró
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Lucia Della Spina
Author Biographies

Francesco Calabró, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Italy

Francesco teaches Economic Assessment of Plans and Projects (ICAR SSD 22) within the Bachelor of Architecture Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria. Visiting Professor at School of Public Affairs, San Diego State University (US).

Lucia Della Spina, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Italy

Aggregate Professor in Appraisal at the Heritage, Architecture, Urban Planning Department of Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, scientific responsible of the university laboratory: LaborEst directing the magazine “Laborest – Pages of Appraisal and Evaluation Plans, Programs and Projectsâ€; she has been scientific responsible of †Urban Real Estate Observatory â€

Calabró, F., & Spina, L. D. (2016). The Economic Evaluations and the Real Estate Appraisals for the Effectiveness, Feasibility and Sustainability of Urban Regeneration Measures. Environmental Science & Sustainable Development, 1(1), 46–54. https://doi.org/10.21625/essd.v1i1.19

Article Details

Received 2016-09-17
Accepted 2016-12-14
Published 2016-12-14