Application of an Impact Model to Assess the Development of Urban Regeneration Project: The Case Study of DumBO District

The European Commission states the mission of the New European Bauhaus (NEB) as the initiative that wants to connect the European Green Deal to the living spaces. It calls to create together a sustainable, beautiful, and inclusive future. Given this new target, the Creating Actionable Futures (CrAFt) European project wants to support the implementation of the NEB principles in the cities. The consortium starts to develop the CrAFt’s NEB Impact Model as a guidance tool oriented to a systemic approach to be adopted in complex urban interventions. In that sense, the cities can use their existing indicator sets for integrated planning and sustainable goals. This paper aims to analyze the applicability of a new methodology for the assessment of urban mobility based on the Impact Model tool. The pilot case in Bologna is analyzed to define the impact of urban transformation that has been realized in the Multi-functional Urban District of Bologna (DumBO). DumBO is a space of continuous transformation in which an urban regeneration space, where an old freight yard have been addressed to culture, art, social activities in close relation with the territory culture, sociability and sustainability. Thus, it is a place where associations, business companies and citizens collaborate and contaminate each other. The research examines indicators, starting by the sustainable mobility, the active and the public transport KPIs. In this way, this set of indicators will contribute to the assessment of aspects related to mobility, This research will help the decision-makers to assess and promote sustainable solutions through this set of indicators that clarifies complex aspects during the urban regeneration process.