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Fostering resilience in the face of urban risks and climate change processes has definitely become a crucial task for planners and policy makers. Indeed, shaping spatial development through patterns of regeneration, renewal and new settlement design needs a variety of spatial strategies and policy statements as mechanisms for integrating principles of adaptation and mitigation into planning actions. Thereby urban areas are likely to perform as laboratories for resilience, both in theory and practice. This paper presents a research based on consultant activities conducted by the University of Catania, Italy in some cities of Sicily. The overall purpose is to highlight the role of local spatial planning as a key element for imagining and designing the resilient city. In particular, the paper outlines the development management decisions taken by the local authorities, represented in planning tools and expressed through planning choices and flexible actions to maximize the sustainable development of the analyzed municipalities. Specific focus is on the application of principles for transfer of development rights as well as policy instruments for regulating or incentivizing urban transformations addressed to adaptation and mitigation by means of green infrastructure. The case studies presented stimulate several considerations about the opportunities for embracing an integrated planning approach, which can be considered the most effective way to trigger virtuous urban transformations aimed to achieve the adaptive and resilient city, also in Mediterranean regions.
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The study cases were chosen among some relevant recent consultant activities carried out by the University of Catania, Lapta—Laboratory for Sustainable Planning and Design of Cities and Landscapes—www-lapta.dicar.unict.it.
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The research presented in this paper has been partially funded through the ERASMUS + Program, Capacity Building in the Field of Higher Education, Project ADAPTM (Climate Change Management Through Adaptation and Mitigation, 585917-EPP-1-2017-1-IT-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP). The European Commission’s support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents, which reflect the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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Barbarossa, L., Pappalardo, V. (2021). Finding the Resilient City: A Proposal for Implementing “Adaptigation” in Spatial Plan. Case Studies from Sicily. In: La Rosa, D., Privitera, R. (eds) Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning. INPUT 2021. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 146. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68824-0_38
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