Science of Valuations

Alessandra Oppio is professor of Real Estate Appraisal at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, where she also serves as director of ASP (Alta Scuola Politecnica), a joint program for talented students of Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino. She currently serves as president of the Italian Scientific Society of Appraisal and Evaluation (SIEV). Her research activities deal with the analysis and evaluation of the public and private feasibility of urban regeneration interventions; the impact evaluation of projects and investments; complex decision support systems and integrated evaluation; economic and multidimensional evaluation for cultural and environmental assets. She has been the Chief Editor for the SIEV publications with the Springer since 2017.

• Part I. Valuation science. Judgement, value and truth.- Chapter 1. Issues and prospects of Valuation Science.- Chapter 2. Appraisal: some consideration from the past and a challenge for the future.- Chapter 3. Why foundations …? Evaluation as civic commitment.- Chapter 4. The Inextricability of Fact and Value.- Chapter 5. The Tip and the Bottom. What Makes an Estimate True?.- Chapter 6. Valuating valuations: the case of happiness as oikeiosis.- Chapter 7. Values and valuation.- Part II. Valuation and values: earth and the cities.- Chapter 8. The value creation in our “Regime d’historicitè”.- Chapter 9. Axiology of urban quality. The city as a functioning system.- Chapter 10. The great concentration. Demography, economy, real estate values and the development of Italian metropolitan cities..- Chapter 11. The evaluation of Urban Commons, a few theoretical-methodological considerations.- Chapter 12. Social discount rate in balance between intergenerational solidarity and economic feasibility.- Chapter 13. Teaching Appraisal: remarks for optimization, etc.