A Multi-criteria Approach to Support the Retraining Plan of the Biancavilla’s Old Town

Abstract

The historic town centre of our cities may be considered as a stratified and interconnected aggregate of values. Identifying these values for some of the possible configurations of components for a historic town centre is a complex task. This study proposes a cognitive, interpretive and evaluative model for the evaluation and choice of action in the redevelopment plan for a historic town centre, in order to locate amongst all possible redevelopment alternatives, those that best meet the prerequisites of sustainability. In particular, this study analyses the actions of the redevelopment plan for the Biancavilla’s historic town centre. The instrumental operational model for evaluation is of a multi-criteria type and in particular uses a MAUT approach. This multi-criteria approach allows for a ranking of the analysed alternatives on the basis of a set of criteria which take into account the sustainability of the interventions.