The paper discusses the results emerging from a research carried out on a social housing intervention currently in progress in Turin, Northern Italy. The aim of the research relays in defining a model useful to control the building integrated sustainability, especially regarding some designing...

The paper aims at developing a 'planning grid' to address sustainable social housing interventions. The purpose lies in acquiring integrated competences to support, develop and monitor residential proposals, from the pre-feasibility up to the on-going phase, covering multi-dimensional impacts on...

The recent developments in the Italian housing finance are definitely playing a real chance in Italy: the lack of diversified and flexible tools and, above all, the shortage of public resources, led the Italian government to reduce its traditional massive supply of housing. The fact aimed at...

Nowadays municipalities manifest an increasing difficulty in finding out free areas available for the introduction of public standard services along with private real estate developments. To overcome this difficulty and when private developers canít comply the rule, the City Hall of Turin...

A key condition for the creation of balanced urban transformations is the introduction of appropriate public standard services beside the new Real Estate developments. The Turin Plan in force indicates that, in urban lots (developing more than 4,000 sq.m. of gross floor area) to be transformed...

A control activity, able to prevent Corporate Properties from Impairment Risks, has becoming a strategic task also for the Italian Companies. More and more various are, in fact, the services delivered by the Facility Management, either íwithinî or íin outsourcingî, as well as many are the...

The Subprime mortgage crisis has been contracting the liquid assets capacity in many countries, causing an economic-financial recession with problems that differ depending on the market sectors and geographic areas. As a consequence, the typical risk inclination of the investorsí profile, which...

An estimate of the land incidence on a property value has scarce scientific significance in valuation assessments. In fact, the Italian appraisal tradition considers a property as a whole due to the close complementarity existing between its parts. However, the concept of ícomplementary valueî...

It is well known that over the last few years profound changes have taken hold in legislation to the rented housing market in Italy. In actual fact, this market has been progressively liberalized and new rules have been introduced to assist low-income families, either by way of direct benefits...

Construction of Turin's Automatic Metro Line is part of the programme for improving the public transport system in the town's metropolitan area. In addition to railway connection with Caselle Airport opened in April 2001, the plan includes completion by 2010 of the Railway Junction and the...