How to Revitalise a Historic District: A Stakeholders-Oriented Assessment Framework of Adaptive Reuse

Cultural Heritage: A Hybrid Framework for Ranking Adaptive Reuse Strategies

“…The literature offers a wide range of techniques applied to real cases of reuse that have proved effective in defining an appropriate methodological framework to face the complexity of reuse problems [14][15][16][24][25][26]28,37,40,44]. Furthermore, most of the scientific articles belong to the category of alternative use selection/adaptive reuse [48,[63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71].…”

“…The evaluation criteria and sub-criteria are chosen based on the literature of the sector [79] or even in a focus group with the PA, experts, and technicians of the sector. The criteria chosen must be multidimensional in nature precisely to evaluate alternatives on a multidimensional scale, and must consider antithetical aspects that are social, cultural, historical, and economic in nature [14][15][16]24,28,[31][32][33][34]37].…”

“…The AHP method can take into account the interdependence existing between the different evaluation criteria through the construction of suitable hierarchies [3,24,28]. The elements of a hierarchy (i.e., criteria, sub-criteria, alternatives) are not linked to all of the others, but they are grouped into disjointed sets; if an interdependence between some elements is recognized, they are placed in the same hierarchical level and connected to the same element of the next higher level.…”

“…The growing demand for public investments, necessary to reactivate the economy of European countries, must be combined with the need to create works that are useful to the community and shared at all levels [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35]. Rigorous and transparent preliminary analyses able to outsource the needs of the community in advance, as well as the technical, procedural, economic, and managerial obstacles to be faced, are needed [36][37][38][39].…”

“…In this framework, an appropriate design of the decision support procedure is important, with the use of methodologies that are as simple and understandable as they are possible, but in which the required input information and the recommendations provided as the output must necessarily be rigorous and accurate. In the literature, there are several examples and methodological applications that have been shown to be appropriate for addressing the complexity of reuse interventions [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35].…”