Evaluation Models to Aid Choice of Investiments Regarding Building Stocks in Mediterranean Urban Landscape

Evaluation of regional and urban dynamics have not been institutionalized sufficiently. In Italy, urban planning has been a pure regulation of accepted sprawl spontaneous trend. The planning goal has been one - dimensional, i. e. the distribution of land rent among landlords and contractors. Evaluation procedures have been rough empirical practices, confined in the first step of the planning process. Evaluations have been just bureaucratic checks about legal permissibility of spread-out trends. During 60ies and 70ies some methodological innovations arose proposing planning as a dynamic process of urban management. In the last years, urban plans remained unchanged whereas urban investments changed, shifting from urban sprawl to new strategies including urban rehabilitation and to compact and mixed-use districts.