Using open source GIS to support energy and carbon flows accounting in urban areas

This text focuses on the potential use of open source geographic information systems (GIS) and open data to develop project support maps, laying the foundation for a georeferenced database geared towards generative environmental design (GED). Starting from the awareness of the strategies normally used by a natural ecosystem in evolutionary processes, GED is mainly oriented towards the integrated management of the main dynamics that characterize the reference area with the dual goal of maximizing the energy efficiency of the system and at the same time guaranteeing circularity, basic conditions for achieving a zero emissions balance at the local scale. To support the pursuit of these strategies, design tools should on the one hand help to know and map the salient features of the territory, and on the other understand the dynamics related to the main activities of the settled community. In particular the area as case study is the Corvetto - Chiaravalle district, in the southern part of Milan