Abandoned Buildings in Contemporary Cities: Smart Conditions for Actions (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 168)

Preface
Contents
1 Introduction
	1.1 Aim of the Book
	1.2 Outline of the Book
	References
Perspectives
2 Vacant Buildings. Distinguishing Heterogeneous Cases: Public Items Versus Private Items; Empty Properties Versus Abandoned Properties
	2.1 Preface
	2.2 Three Questions: Definitions, Problems, Strategies
		2.2.1 First Question: Definitions
		2.2.2 Second Question: Problems
		2.2.3 Third Question: Strategies
	2.3 Final Remarks
	References
3 Participation, Culture, Entrepreneurship: Using Public Real Estate Assets to Create New Urban Regeneration Models
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 The Assets Involved
	3.3 The Forms of Participation
	3.4 The Rule of the Social Entrepreneur
	3.5 The Value of Culture
	3.6 Enabling Policies Versus Participation Policies
	3.7 Conclusions
	References
4 Intensity of Uses and Spatial Devices
	4.1 Space as a Receptor for Action!
	4.2 Raw Space, the Breeding Ground of Ideas
	4.3 Intensity Instead of Density
	4.4 Space as a Platform of Different Possibilities
	4.5 Tools for Intensity
	4.6 Conclusion
	References
5 The Appraisal Challenge in Cultural Urban Regeneration: An Evaluation Proposal
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 Evaluation Method for Urban Regeneration
	5.3 Cultural Urban Regeneration
	5.4 Evaluation Method for Cultural Urban Regeneration
	5.5 A Proposal of an Evaluation Procedure
		5.5.1 Context Criteria
		5.5.2 Project Criteria
	5.6 Conclusion
	References
Case Studies
6 Theoretical Basis and Design of Analysis
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 The Key Points of the Research: Urban Regeneration and Adaptive Reuse in the Italian Context
		6.2.1 Urban Regeneration
		6.2.2 Adaptive Reuse
		6.2.3 The Italian Context and Cases
	6.3 Reconnaissance of National and International Experiences, Drafting of Selection Criteria, Selection of Cases for Investigation
	6.4 Analytical Framework
	6.5 Field Research
	Appendix 1: Selected Case Studies
		Turin
		Milan
		Northern Italy
		Central Italy
		Southern Italy
		International
	References
7 The Case Study Profiles
	7.1 Introduction
	7.2 Toolbox Coworking
		7.2.1 In Brief
		7.2.2 Local Context
		7.2.3 Architectural Characters
		7.2.4 Origins and Stakeholders
		7.2.5 Value Proposition
	7.3 Factory Grisù, Ferrara
		7.3.1 In Brief
		7.3.2 Local Context
		7.3.3 Architectural Characters
		7.3.4 Origins and Stakeholders
		7.3.5 Value Proposition
	7.4 Centro Arti Opificio SIRI
		7.4.1 In Brief
		7.4.2 Local Context
		7.4.3 Architectural Characters
		7.4.4 Origins and Stakeholders
		7.4.5 Value Proposition
	7.5 Officine Zero, Rome
		7.5.1 In Brief
		7.5.2 Local Context
		7.5.3 Architectural Characters
		7.5.4 Origins and Stakeholders
		7.5.5 Value Proposition
	7.6 Ex Fadda, San Vito Dei Normanni
		7.6.1 In Brief
		7.6.2 Local Context
		7.6.3 Architectural Characters
		7.6.4 Origins and Stakeholders
		7.6.5 History Pills
		7.6.6 Value Proposition
	7.7 Farm Cultural Park
		7.7.1 In Brief
		7.7.2 Local Context
		7.7.3 Architectural Characters
		7.7.4 Origins and Stakeholders
		7.7.5 Value Proposition
	References
8 Governance, Economic Sustainability and Socio-spatial Relationships
	8.1 Genesis, Governance and Organisation
	8.2 Business Model and Economic Sustainability
	8.3 The Socio-spatial Relations Generated: From the Relationship with the Urban Space and Its Actors to Supra-Local Relations
	8.4 Final Consideration
	References
Discussion and Conclusions
9 Shapes, Rules and Value
	9.1 The Issue
	9.2 Is Unused Asset Synonymous with Useless?
		9.2.1 Circular Economy
		9.2.2 Adaptive Reuse
		9.2.3 Unused Is Not Synonymous of Useless
	9.3 What Does It Mean to Enhance the Value of the Unused Asset?
	9.4 What Are the Conditions for Actions?
	9.5 Conclusions
	References