Post Un-Lock : From Territorial Vulnerabilities to Local Resilience

This open access book builds a framework that holds together numerous open issues in territorial planning: from the understanding of territorial, landscape, environmental and climatic dynamics to the analysis of local vulnerabilities, to the use of modern survey techniques to support planning. What is the role of urban and regional planning in achieving the sustainable development goals of our communities considering the major issues posed by the COVID-19 pandemic in urban planning? And how do these medium- and long-term objectives interact with the needs that the emergency has given rise to?

Post Un-Lock—from territorial vulnerabilities to local resilience—aims to provide the reader with a useful key to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic can be seen as a catalyst for a restart based on the concepts of sustainability and resilience. In fact, the COVID-19 experience evidences the need to propose a planning system able to integrate multiple scales according to an interdisciplinary approach focused on in-depth knowledge of the territorial risks and vulnerabilities. Besides, with the contribution of the new technologies, it is able to rethink spaces on a neighbourhood scale, conceived as a "local resilience unit" that ensures the population high standards of safety, liveability, and accessibility to proximity services. In this view, planning is increasingly concerned about social aspects and the well-being of communities, supported by indicators and evaluation tools. With the proposal of the concept of local resilience unit, Post Un-Lock takes a step forward towards the definition of a new paradigm of local planning and a topic for urban regeneration.

Grazia Brunetta Full Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Politecnico di Torino, DIST - Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning. She is Scientific coordinator of the Responsible Risk Resilience Centre (R3C) of Politecnico di Torino, where she coordinates an interdisciplinary research team to enhance cities forward resilience in planning and policy. Her main research activities show a deep and constant involvement in the field of urban and regional planning, with a particular focus on the innovation in the theories, methodologies and approaches for spatial planning, in both research and academic teaching activity. She is the scientific coordinator of 2nd level specialising master programme in "Metodi e Tecniche per il governo di territori resilienti. Verso la gestione integrata dei rischi". She is member of the Expert committee of the Intensive Training on Urban Resilience organized by University of Southern Denmark. Since 2015, she is coordinator of the Risk Management and Adaptation working group of the international programme RESURBE on Urban Resilience and Climate Change Adaptation, RECNET. She is the scientific coordinator of a wide range of researches on regional and environmental planning, dealing with institutional innovation in spatial planning, evaluation in planning, spatial analysis for regional development, urban resilience in planning and design. On these topics she has been coordinator of many international and national research teams and invited speaker in national and international conferences. She has authored more than 250 publications.

Patrizia Lombardi is Vice Rector for Sustainable campus and communities and Professor in Planning evaluation and decision making at Politecnico di Torino where she also coordinates the Green team office since 2015, managing all issues related to sustainable campus. Founder and President-elect of the Italian Netwok of Universities for Sustainable development since 2019, she chairs the Coordination Committee which provides guidance to the 84 associated universities and to the 800 delegates across seven working groups. She is an established figure in the field of Sustainable communities development and Smart Cities for over 25 years and she has coordinated or served as lead partner several Pan-European Projects, including SCORE - Supporting Consumer Ownership in Renewable Energies, SHAPE-ENERGY - Social Sciences and Humanities for Advancing Policy in European Energy, POCACITO - Post-carbon cities in Europe: A long-term outlook, DIMMER - District Information Modeling and Management for Energy Reduction, MILESECURE-2050 - Multidimensional Impact of the Low-carbon European Strategy on Energy Security, and Socio-Economic Dimension up to 2050 perspective, UNI-metrics - Value metrics and policies for a Sustainable University campus, Marie Curie project, EU, January 2012. She has supported both industries, private sector and public administrations, including the Italian Ministry of Sustainable Infrastructure and Mobility in achieving SDGs. She has published over 250 papers in specialized textbooks and international journals. She received several awards for both career development and scientifical papers.

Angioletta Voghera is a Full Professor of Urban and Regional Planning in the Interuniversity Department of Urban and Regional Studies and Planning (DIST) of the Politecnico of Torino. In the Politecnico di Torino, she represents the DIST in the Task Force on Technology Transfer. She is a Member of the Scientific Committee of S3+LAB-Urban Sustainability & Security Laboratory for Social Challenges and of the Board of the Interdipartimental Responsible Risk Resilience Centre (R3C Centre). In 2014, she was Visiting Researcher at EPFL of Lausanne. Since 2014 she has been the Coordinator of the National Community on Landscape and Biodiversity of the National Institute of Urban Planning (INU). Since 2021 she has been the Coordinator of the Master of science in Territorial, Urban, Environmental and Landscape Planning and Vice-coordinator of the 2nd level Master in Methods and techniques for the governance of resilient territories – towards integrated risk management. Since 2001 she has been a member of CED PPN (European Documentation Centre on Nature Park Planning), and, on this topic, since 2016, she has been a member of the Administration Council of Parchi Reali (Piedmont Region) and of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) (from 2018) and the IUCN Expert Assessment Group for the Green List (EAGL) for Italy (from 2019). Resulted in over 230 international and national publications, her main research activities are in the field of Regional and Landscape and Protected Areas Planning and Urban Design with reference to European contexts. The focus is on the analysis, evaluation, planning and design of sensitive environments, such as natural and landscape protected areas, fluvial and rural landscapes. On these topics, she is the author of over 230 publications in books, national and international magazines. In the last ten years, she collaborated and coordinated many research projects within institutional agencies (IUCN; ICROM, ICCROM; Europarc; Iranian Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Organisation; ISPRA; Federparchi; Italian Ministry of Culture/Iranian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Tourism; Piedmont Region; Province of Turin; Metropolitan City of Turin; INU; municipalities) and she also coordinated others financed by European FP7, Horizon 2020 and PNRR (Mission 4) Multi-Risk sciEnce for resilienT commUnities undeR a changiNg climate (RETURN).