A DSS to assess and manage the urban performances in the regeneration plan: The case study of Pachino

Abstract

The historic centers, by using a large sustainability concept, should be the places where the quality and the symbolic values may prevail on the quantitative and functional ones, but often, the poor resources and the low quality of the management do not allow to promote a sustainable retraining process for them. The plan decision makers should verify the impact of the technical choices and then the sustainability of the actions, but also the impact of the planning policies on the economic performance and then on the economic sustainability of these actions. Therefore they must be helped to identify the planning actions, their funds and the value system they want to promote. In this regard, this study proposes a model to support the management of the retraining plan for Pachino's historic center. The proposed model is a DSS that is developed using the MAUT and the IMO-DRSA tool. © 2014 Springer International Publishing.