Nature-based Solutions for Sustainable Urban Planning

Part I. Planning NBS in cities: insights and methods on spatial challenges.- 1. Nature-based solutions for resilient and thriving cities: Opportunities and challenges for planning future cities.- 2. Mainstreaming Nature-based Solutions in cities through performance-based planning: A case study in Trento, Italy.- 3. Insights for the enhancement of urban biodiversity using Nature-based solutions: The role of urban spaces in green infrastructures design.- 4. The environment-culture-technology nexus framework: an approach for assessing the challenges and opportunities for implementing nature-based solutions in Brazil.- Part II. Implementing NBS in cities: Case-study applications.- 5. Inclusive Urban Regeneration with Citizens and Stakeholders: from Living Labs to the URBiNAT CoP.- 6. Nature4Cities: Nature-based Solutions tools implementation within cities.- 7. The Implementation of Connectivity Area in the Metropolitan Region of Campinas (São Paulo, Brazil).- 8. Analysis of Safety and security perception in Biblioteca degli Alberi (BAM) Park in Milan, Italy.

Dr. Israa H. Mahmoud Israa is a Quadri-lingual urban planner and architect by education. Since 2018, she is a post-Doc research fellow at the Urban Simulation Lab Fausto Curti, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU), at Politecnico di Milano. Now she is the research team leader together with Prof. Eugenio Morello on CLEVER Cities Project - Funded by the European Commission - Horizon 2020 as an expert of Co-creation guidance for cities to implement Nature-based solutions in socially inclusive urban regeneration processes. She holds a Ph.D. in "Sociability of Public spaces and Placemaking approach as key drivers for Cultural-Based Urban Regeneration processes." Learning case study: Northend Park, Rose Kennedy Green Way, Boston Massachusetts, USA. In 2015, she started her PhD in Urban Regeneration and Economic Development in Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, Italy. Later, in 2016 she pursued her PhDdegree in Northeastern University of Boston MA. Starting 2017, she took part to a European Commission - MARIE-CURIE Action funded Horizon 2020 Project - GA # 645651 - MAPS-LED Project as an (ESR) early stage researcher, then as an Experienced Researcher (ER) in San Diego state University, CA, USA. Back in 2010, She earned her bachelor's degree from Architectural Engineering Dept. Alexandria University of Egypt with a major on Urban Design section about psychological and environmental urban design, in a collaboration program with Michigan state University and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany. In Politecnico di Milano, she also lectures about Nature-based solutions in the Master of Science in Urban Planning and Policy Design, Leonardo campus; as well as Master of Sustainable Architecture and Landscape design, Piacenza campus. Lately, she co-leaded the Greening Cities, Shaping Cities international symposium at Politecnico di Milano, October 2020.

Prof. Eugenio Morello  An architect by education, Eugenio Morello isAssociate