Urban Planning and adaptation Strategies: Preface

Advanced conception of urban planning has become a difficult matter in finding adaptation strategies in design practice for quality. A variety of meanings and appears must be defined through different policy scenarios. This could lead to varying degree of quality that can be experienced in legislation or introduced by statuary requirements. Further, climate change and other urban risks have been such a pressing issue to stimulate decision-makers and professionals to find appropriate solutions and actions. To this end, cities around the world they are processing ambitious climate actions plans to adapt to the impact of climate change. The required actions they must deal with adaptation through mitigation to cope with urban change in existing and future development. Professionals must also have an important role in putting all development and regeneration efforts that should respond to people’s needs. Following short descriptions and considerations on the following papers of the session Urban Planning and adaptation Stategies: “Participatory Process in Practice. Learning from practices within Rome’s consolidated urban fabrics”;“Unconscious Heritage”;“Re-Connecting Heritage. From a former railway route to a sustainable landscape infrastructure”;“Regenerative design in the evolution of the Italian Garden in the XX Century“;“The Salvaging of the Alpine Cultural Heritage Involved in Natural Disasters”;“Meta-Producing Cultural Heritage Resources”;“Game engine-based visualization of climate change hazards in heritage”.