People, Property and Territory: Valuation Perspectives and Economic Prospects for the Trazzera Regional Property Reuse in Sicily

Maria Rosa Trovato (), Salvatore Giuffrida, Giuseppe Collesano, Ludovica Nasca and Filippo Gagliano
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Maria Rosa Trovato: Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Catania, 95124 Catania, Italy
Salvatore Giuffrida: Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Catania, 95124 Catania, Italy
Giuseppe Collesano: Sicily Region Executive, 90100 Palermo, Italy
Ludovica Nasca: Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Catania, 95124 Catania, Italy
Filippo Gagliano: Department of Business Science, University of Bergamo, 24125 Bergamo, Italy

Land, 2023, vol. 12, issue 4, 1-38

Abstract: As in many parts of Italy and Europe, the Sicilian Trazzera regional property has been for a long time the main land infrastructure supporting the agro-pastoral economy. Throughout its slow evolution, this land heritage has been affected by transport transformations and illegal appropriations by neighboring landowners, which have reduced its potential public function in the current renewed prospects of sustainability and a new balance between territories concerning the issue of the inland areas. A further issue concerns the management of the relationship between private interest and prospects for public reuse in progressively urbanized territorial contexts where this infrastructure takes on considerable economic and real estate interest. The current regional legislation suggests some measures for inter-municipal planning that also include the legitimization of illegal appropriations. From this twofold prospect, according to the wide-spread information and communication technologies (ICTs), and also including the geographic information systems (GIS), this work provides the application of two assessment tools based on a GeoDatabase of the current heard roads in the two areas of quantitative–monetary and aesthetic–qualitative assessment. The first shows the extent to which the fair compensation to be charged for legitimizing land parcels is underestimated today, to the detriment of urban social fixed capital development. The second demonstrates the way that common awareness of landscape value can be nurtured for the benefit of land and ecological–environmental rebalancing.

Keywords: heard roads; Sicilian domain; fair residual value; landscape experience assessment; landscape planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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