Tangible and intangible multiple risks: achieving resilience by enhancing cultural heritage

Abstract

Multiple kinds of crisis more and more occur simultaneously, making difficult to resolve challenging urban conditions as different risks are overlapped and involve social, economic, environmental, health and liveable topics. Furthermore, any place is different and has its peculiarities with respect to material and immaterial characteristics and, for this reason, has different times and modalities to face crisis. To achieve a sustainable adaptation and regeneration of the places affected by multiple risks it is important to study the questions by many points of view and using suitable urban methods. Starting from these premises, aims of this study (carried out in the framework of the ‘PRIN2020 20209F3A37’ research project, within the ISMed-CNR Unit with the author’s responsibility and the relative agreement between Sapienza Università di Roma and ISMed-CNR) include: to define and identify what are the kinds of risk and the main kinds of overlapping among them in sites; to identify what are the main places which are subjected at multiples risks; to propose an original and ad hoc method to comprehend what are the better and sustainable solutions in terms of adaptation and regeneration of different kinds of places interested by multiple crisis and by enhancing cultural heritage. Finally, principles for multiple risk areas design will be reported.

Keywords: multiple risks, cultural heritage, urban regeneration, public spaces