An Automatic Procedure to Select Areas for Transfer Development Rights in the Urban Market

The first part of the paper provides an overview of urban rent recapture and equalization today and the application of Transfer Development Rights (TDR) mechanism. Below, in the second part, staring from the definition of spatial data infrastructure you try to give an account of the importance that has the support of GIS in planning, and consequently in the analysis of possible forms of compensation in terms of equalization. Finally the third part will provide information on the sources necessary for the construction of automatic procedures for the analysis of transfer of building rights. The last part is devoted entirely to the illustration of a case study, and some hypotheses for implementation. It is provided of specifications for the routines used for analysis in a GIS environment, and explains the process of decision, which, once supported the findings of gis routines, lead towards a prelude to Transfer Development Rights.