Re-Thinking Detroit: A Multicriteria-Based Approach for Adaptive Reuse for the Corktown District

Marta Bottero, Giulia Datola, Daniele Fazzari and Roberta Ingaramo
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Marta Bottero: Interuniversity Department of Urban and Regional Studies and Planning, Politecnico di Torino, Viale Mattioli 39, 10125 Turin, Italy
Giulia Datola: Interuniversity Department of Urban and Regional Studies and Planning, Politecnico di Torino, Viale Mattioli 39, 10125 Turin, Italy
Daniele Fazzari: Politecnico di Torino, Viale Mattioli 39, 10125 Turin, Italy
Roberta Ingaramo: Department of Architecture and Design, Politecnico di Torino, Viale Mattioli 39, 10125 Turin, Italy

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 14, 1-22

Abstract: The paper addresses the paradigm of adaptive reuse with a specific focus on issues related to the evaluation and the decision-making processes in this context. In more detail, this paper aims at recognising the main gaps that concern the evaluation process associated with adaptive reuse and providing some points of reflection and a preliminary methodological proposal to evaluate transformation scenarios related to adaptive reuse, through a multidimensional and multi-objective perspective. According to these purposes, this paper describes the implementation of the pillars of adaptive reuse to re-think the Corktown District of the city of Detroit, underlying through a real case study the complexity, the multidimensionality, and the multi-objective challenges of this concept, when implemented in urban planning and the revitalization of historic buildings. According to this scenario, the present paper focuses on issues related to managing the complexity and the multidimensionality of the decision process, under the analysis and evaluation of alternative adaptive-reuse strategies. This research, thus, proposes the application of the Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) technique, based on the Multi-Attribute Value Theory (MAVT), to evaluate and compare different strategic scenarios to re-think the Corktown District of the city of Detroit, according to the principles of adaptive reuse. The final result is a multidimensional evaluation that provides a final ranking of the different proposed alternatives, in order to support the decision-making to select the most suitable transformative scenario, according to the initial purposes of the project.

Keywords: adaptive-reuse; urban regeneration; multi-criteria analysis (MCA); Decision Support tool; Multi-Attribute Value Theory (MAVT) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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