A Look at Regulations and the Pianini

Post date: Sep 30, 2015 3:49:27 AM

This week I looked individualized regulation plans, or pianini, which are used to specify the amount of encroachment allowed from businesses in a given campo. According to a paper written by Professor Carrera and his colleagues titled, Street Performances, the Role of Visual Analysis in Microzoning of Public Space in Venice, Italy, the current regulations require the creation of protective buffers, or aree di rispetto, around walkways, entrances, and outdoor decorations such as trees, benches, and statues. On the Comune Di Venezia website, I also found a number of these pianini as well as the current regulatory criteria, and more information regarding these topics can be found on the following two links : Pianini Plans and Regulatory Criteria. Moreover, from the same paper mentioned above, I learned that the consulting company known as Forma Urbis s.a.s. was charged with developing these pianini for regulating commercial use of public space, and that noise regulations have been instantiated throughout Italy which have set strict standards for the maximum decibel levels allowed in any given area in Venice.

Continuing with my research I began to look into how other forms of land regulation have been conducted, and I discovered that in Worcester a system of build-out analysis had been applied by Professor Carrera in the past. The article mentioned above goes into detail about this system, in which existing zoning regulations were used to determine how much the city could expand, and that the main goal of buildout analyses is that of "promoting a critical re-evaluation of the effectiveness of planning controls with respect to the visions and goals of a community." I thought this was interesting concept because it is important when developing regulations to consider the impact on the local community.

Finally, while looking around on the Comune Di Venezia website, I discovered a web application that seems to outline the different plateatici in the city. This seems like it could be really interesting for getting ideas for our application. Check out this plateatici application by clicking: here!

Figure 1 : Image using plateatici application from the Comune Di Venezia

Figure 2 : Picture from the Comune Di Venezia website