environmental inequality and widening socio-spatial disparities which will pose a threat to its competitiveness objectives. Presentation 3 Author(s): Marco Adelfio, Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain) Title: Institutional partnerships for socially sustainable residential developments: the example of Urban Consortiums in the Madrid Autonomous Region Abstract: During the last twenty years the Madrid Regional Government together with the municipalities established a partnership to develop building land for mixed-income and mixed-housing neighbourhoods. Such public-led initiatives mostly focused on suburban areas which were formerly devoted to working-class dormitory towns situated in the Eastern and Southern part of the region. The instrument of this partnership was the so-called Urban Consortium, a type of project fostered by the aforementioned two levels of public administration and involving also a series of private actors such as land owners, private developers, financial institutions and housing applicants. Although land management was in the hands of public administration which expropriated and urbanized the plots, the original land owners could sign an agreement in order to obtain a piece of land after it was urbanized. A fundamental feature of Urban Consortiums is the diversification of social classes, housing types and housing tenures. These neighbourhoods, often characterized by a wellbalanced presence of facilities and green areas, include multi-family blocks of flats devoted to subsidised housing and single-family housing, always terraced, which have been sold at market price. For this reason the same residential development can cover a wide range of buyers. The Urban Consortium, a significant result of a successful multi-level public governance process, constitutes an example of socially sustainable suburban mixed-housing development which can be seen as the Madrilenian answer to the traditional stereotype of sprawling monofunctional peripheries.
Session code: Session title:
S33 – Room S1 Trends in historical geography. Applied research and methods for spatial and landscape planning
Organizer(s):
Elena Dai Prà, University of Trento (Italy)
Slots and abstracts:
SLOT 1 (Parallel Session 9) Chair: Elena Dai Prà, University of Trento Presentation 1 Author(s): Laura Federzoni, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italy Title: Landscape Planning and GIS Abstract: The basis for researches about landscape is usually the study of its historical reconstruction through the analysis of documents, maps etc.: this kind of study is undoubtedly essential if we purpose to deepen and display the most important features of a landscape. Nevertheless it is now possible to take a step forward and plan a landscape protection and exploitation implying the use of Geographic Information Systems. A few experimental studies and projects about National and Regional Parks in Italy and also about interesting natural and historical areas will be produced in order to promote their respect and the possibility of their development in relation to traditional activities and tourism, in accordance with the environment and the local culture. The following Italian landscapes have been studied from this point of view: the National Park of Monti Sibillini, between Marche and Umbria, will be exploited with the project of identifying landscape units that will be managed through a GIS; the Regional Parks of Corno alle Scale (Appennino Bolognese) and Frignano (Appennino Modenese), that are contiguous, may be connected through an integrated system of footpaths and the daytrippers will be provided with an interactive guide addressed to smartphones and tablets, carried out with the software Qgis; the Carso Triestino area (Venezia Giulia), will be upgraded by a network of touristic and ecologic footpaths, managed through a GIS.
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