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• A risk analysis interface is developed to assess unmovable cultural heritage. • It includes the asset risk evaluation cards, factsheets, and multicriteria model. • The results are integrated to obtain a risk index for fire, earthquake, and flood. • A comparative assessment of two unmovable cultural assets is performed. • The interface can support the implementation of actions pre and post-events. The present article illustrates the application of the Risk Analysis Interface (RAI), which was developed within the European project ResCult. This assessment model is focused on the risk evaluation of immovable cultural assets and their different components, that need to be preserved and managed in case of extreme events. In detail, this article describes the application of this risk assessment model to the two selected pilot case studies of the project, the Church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli in Venice and the Convent of San Nicola in Tolentino (Italy). This article highlights the application procedure and the results obtained by its implementation in the two pilot case studies. The focus of this article is underlying and explaining in-depth the functioning of the specific evaluation tools, to underline their suitability to be applied in ex-ante, in-itinere, and ex-post phase of a disaster occurrence. The outcome of this article is providing information about how applying the RAI developed within the ResCult project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Urban resilience as transformative approach. • Comprehensive evaluation framework. • Literature review and critical analysis of urban resilience. Urban resilience as a transformative approach has become a central paradigm to define urban policy for making cities resilient. This implementation has multifaceted implications, ranging from the employment of the correct resilience approach for urban systems to the definition of the appropriate assessment framework to address all urban resilience features. This paper addresses the implications concerning the new requirements and open research questions of urban resilience assessment for resilient development for cities. According to this purpose, this paper provides three literature reviews to explore and critically analyse the different approaches of resilience and the several definitions of urban resilience in academic and operative fields, to address the dimensions, multifaceted characteristics, and key factors to being evaluated within an urban resilience enhancement perspective. The result is a comprehensive framework that identifies the five dimensions of urban resilience (economy, society, environment, nature, and governance), the relative urban components, and nine urban resilience capacities that have to be included in the evaluation of urban resilience as a transformative approach. The main novelty and contribution of the proposed research is the obtained framework that can be used as a guideline to define a comprehensive evaluation approach to assess urban resilience in its implementation in urban planning as a transformative approach. The final aim of the proposed research is to support in an operational manner the development of suitable evaluation methods to investigate strategic strategies within the aim of urban resilience enhancement, through a complex and multidimensional perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• A risk assessment model is proposed for evaluating the cultural heritage. • The model integrates the AREC Cards, the Factsheets and the SMARTER method. • A set of indicators calculates a risk index w.r.t. fires, earthquakes and floods. • The risk assessment model support the decision-making in managing extreme events. Nowadays, the topics related both to the safeguard and the valorization of cultural heritage and cultural assets are getting more attention in the political agenda. Innovative approaches to implement both the risk analysis and the resilience assessment are ever more required. This paper illustrates an original approach, concerning the development of a risk assessment model for cultural assets, with reference to fire, earthquake and flood. The proposed model includes specific evaluation tools, that are based on parameters and indicators related to the factors of hazard and vulnerability for the three considered types of risk. The multi-dimensional set of indicators is used to get synthetics indices, through a multicriteria approach. Furthermore, this evaluation is supported by specific questionnaires to include in the assessment model the opinion of different experts and stakeholders to introduce the indicators weights. The results of this model are represented by specific evaluation tools which can be implemented in the risk assessment of cultural assets in different specific situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Presenting the CIE as method to evaluate urban regeneration projects. • Multiple steps' evaluation integrates the impacts on stakeholders, the time dimension and project's scale of effects. • In the 22@ project the economic impacts were the most significant. Urban regeneration is a complex and multi-faceted process. It can be defined a comprehensive and integrated vision of actions which aims to tackle urban problems and to improve the economic, social and environmental conditions. These strategies also involve several stakeholders which have different powers, interests and objectives in the transformation processes. Integrated evaluation tools are able to consider the multidimensionality of the urban context and the feedback of the different actors involved. These tools are mainly of use for the decision makers. This paper explores the use of Community Impact Evaluation (CIE) which is a multi-actor methodology that aims at defining the convenience of complex projects according to the social preferences expressed by different members of the community. In this paper, the CIE methodology is applied in a peculiar way in order to assess the different impacts generated by the 22@ Barcelona project, considering the effects at the different scales and over time. A synthetic analysis is conducted in order to estimate the nature and the intensity of the impacts among the different stakeholders. The evaluation shows the role of economic interest in urban regeneration processes and how the change in the political local context allowed a review of project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]