Integrated Digital Tools for Earthquake Risk Reduction in Historic Urban Landscape of Central Italy

Facing with the great problem of the safety of the historic towns of Central Italy, the loss of human lives and the responsibility for the built heritage of the historic urban landscape preservation for future generations, the research group is specifically committed to two objectives considered closely linked. - On the one hand to drive the activity of technicians, urban planners, restorers from emergency management and reconstruction to prevention and, even better, urban preparation and structural restoration; - On the other hand, to identify the evolution of the Italian historic towns and to define the data that must be studied in order to preserve this architectural and landscape heritage for future generations. Many scholars and the research group that presents this paper worked over the years with the aims of identifying the necessary knowledge for an advanced urban landscape management, also in terms of safety. To reach this objective, it is fundamental to know what data to represent, how to manage them and what to achieve. Many data that we consider are well known by the scholar of restoration, other data by the urban designer, other are closed in the archive for centuries. In order to manage the urban evolution and the safety we need to transform this data in knowledge. Digital tools (such as GIS, BIM and agent-based modeling) prove to be irreplaceable supports for both fast and detailed evaluations in the passage from information to knowledge.