Project suggestions for post-earthquake interventions in Italy

From building reconstruction to the population resettlement

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/1970-9870/7568

Keywords:

Innovative urban plans, Post-earthquake code of conduct, Risk protection tools, Different lifestyle in fragile areas

Abstract

Over the past 30 years, post-earthquake emergency event management in Italy has far too often focused on the provision of temporary wooden housing modules to accommodate displaced residents transferred from their areas of origin to other places. This has led to losing sight of the central objective of resettlement in the areas of origin of the displaced population. Despite significant financial contributions allocated by the Central Government, unacceptable delays in reconstruction have almost always occurred. This study is aimed at providing a set of practical suggestions, to make it possible for the population to lead an acceptable “coexistence” with the seismic risk in the high hilly and mountainous areas. This paper also highlights some contents of the recent implementation urban plans (SUM Minimum Urban Structures), which are meant to serve as a dynamic tool for the revival of fragile areas. A few operational recommendations concern the criteria for the choice of the areas where temporary wooden housing modules are to be established in the transitional phase, near the city centre. Finally, the operational suggestions delivered by the study may provide an opportunity to raise the risk protection level and enhance the most important available resource: human capital.

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Author Biographies

Maria Angela Bedini, Polytechnic University of Marche

Associate Professor of Urban and Territorial Planning at the Department Simau, Faculty of Engineering, Polytechnic University of Marche where she teaches Urban Planning Technique and Urban Planning History. She has published numerous studies on Italian Urban Plans, City, Pre-earthquake prevention and post-earthquake regeneration of territories in crisis, New Territories of Urban Planning.

Giovanni Marinelli, Polytechnic University of Marche

Architect, Researcher in Urban and Regional Planning at the Department of Materials, Environmental Sciences and Urban Planning (Simau), Polytechnic University of Marche. His research activity includes the urban and territorial planning, environmental infrastructures and green networks, urban and landscape project.

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Published

30-04-2021

How to Cite

Bedini, M. A., & Marinelli, G. (2021). Project suggestions for post-earthquake interventions in Italy: From building reconstruction to the population resettlement. TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 14(1), 21–32. https://doi.org/10.6092/1970-9870/7568

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Vol. 14 No. 1 (2021): The city challenges and external agents. Methods, tools and best practices

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