ABSTRACT

Smart Evaluation and Integrated Design in Regional Development puts forward an alternative approach to evaluation in spatial planning - one that focuses on ’territory’ and ’landscape’. The book introduces an innovative evaluation approach, namely Territorial Integrated Evaluation (TIE), a meta-evaluation methodology for designing regional development scenarios. A research team from the Politecnico di Torino applied this methodology experimentally to the practices of spatial planning in Trentino in order to aid the Province in a process of institutional innovation that is still going on today. TIE defines territorial scenarios serving the need for regional economic development as well as the conservation of nature and landscape. A cross-border region, Trentino has a special need to harmonize economic development with the exceptional and internationally renowned value of its landscape which includes the Dolomites, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Therefore TIE set out to design regional development scenarios that integrated various topics - retail, tourism, infrastructures, nature and landscape. By testing out TIE in practice in this extraordinarily dynamic institutional context, the book makes a significant contribution to the discussion about newly emerging approaches to spatial planning that involve multidisciplinary vision, new paradigms in regional development, and institutional learning and capability in decision-making.

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

Smart Evaluation, the Aims and Stages of a Work in Progress
ByGrazia Brunetta

chapter 1|18 pages

Territorial Integrated Evaluation Methodology

ByGrazia Brunetta

chapter 2|22 pages

The Design of Territorial Integrated Evaluation1

ByGrazia Brunetta, Emma Salizzoni

chapter 3|22 pages

The Experimentation of Territorial Integrated Evaluation1

ByOmbretta Caldarice, Emma Salizzoni

chapter 5|10 pages

A Mathematical Model for Territorial Integrated Evaluation

ByRoberto Monaco