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buildings, roads or other structural elements of the town may affect the indicators
taken into consideration on the whole.
These issues show that the use of the indexes cannot ignore knowledge of the
territory in which a general action takes place. The data produced by the indexes
must be supported by further assessment elements, to be processed on the basis of a
careful analysis of the urban context.
As for the Artisan Village, these elements are represented by the guidelines
envisaged ad hoc within the framework of the EU “UHI Project”, in which the
Artisan Village Upgrade Plan is a pilot study case. These guidelines have revealed
the urban and building characteristics, the main environmental issues, morphological, climatic and architectural aspects of the town structure already in existence and
the possible planning features within the framework of the Artisan Village.
By processing this content even further, the experimental indexes design phase
will be completed, and a list of guidelines will be drafted to support the planning.
By taking into consideration the various territorial contexts within the Village (for
instance: lot on the side of a street, lot inside other lots with buildings of the same
height, etc.), these guidelines will be useful for the planning phase.
For example, in this way such phenomena as the Urban Canyon and the air circulation dynamics will be taken into consideration and, before deciding what planning actions to enter into the software programme to calculate the indexes, it will be
possible to have a further tool for analyses, which can help planners to choose the
best types of actions.
Later on, the main features which can affect the planning phase (presence of
roads, presence of buildings, presence of green barriers, etc.) will be extracted from
these guidelines, and a list of best practices will be drafted, to be applied in the planning of these features. In this way, by following and implementing the experience of
the Green Points of Malmö, a list of actions will be drafted, which planners will
have to respect in the planning of a building lot, having checked the surrounding
context.
6 UHI in the Metropolitan Cluster of Bologna-Modena...
buildings, roads or other structural elements of the town may affect the indicators
taken into consideration on the whole.
These issues show that the use of the indexes cannot ignore knowledge of the
territory in which a general action takes place. The data produced by the indexes
must be supported by further assessment elements, to be processed on the basis of a
careful analysis of the urban context.
As for the Artisan Village, these elements are represented by the guidelines
envisaged ad hoc within the framework of the EU “UHI Project”, in which the
Artisan Village Upgrade Plan is a pilot study case. These guidelines have revealed
the urban and building characteristics, the main environmental issues, morphological, climatic and architectural aspects of the town structure already in existence and
the possible planning features within the framework of the Artisan Village.
By processing this content even further, the experimental indexes design phase
will be completed, and a list of guidelines will be drafted to support the planning.
By taking into consideration the various territorial contexts within the Village (for
instance: lot on the side of a street, lot inside other lots with buildings of the same
height, etc.), these guidelines will be useful for the planning phase.
For example, in this way such phenomena as the Urban Canyon and the air circulation dynamics will be taken into consideration and, before deciding what planning actions to enter into the software programme to calculate the indexes, it will be
possible to have a further tool for analyses, which can help planners to choose the
best types of actions.
Later on, the main features which can affect the planning phase (presence of
roads, presence of buildings, presence of green barriers, etc.) will be extracted from
these guidelines, and a list of best practices will be drafted, to be applied in the planning of these features. In this way, by following and implementing the experience of
the Green Points of Malmö, a list of actions will be drafted, which planners will
have to respect in the planning of a building lot, having checked the surrounding
context.
6 UHI in the Metropolitan Cluster of Bologna-Modena...