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Cities are currently faced with the problem of abandoned industrial sites, derelict urban areas, and environmental degradation of large spaces, due to two major concurrent factors: the structural change in the economy and the development of environmental and safety regulations. Urban regeneration and remediation interventions are likely to have large, but hard to quantify, impacts on human health, on the economic and social development, on life quality, and on the environment. While there are many benefits associated with urban and environmental regeneration, these interventions are very expensive, and call for public and private sectors’ active participation. Porto Marghera in the Lagoon of Venice represents an outstanding and challenging example of the aforementioned processes. This article presents the results of a 5 year research program at the Department of Planning of the University IUAV aiming to value cost and benefits of contaminated sites cleanup and redevelopment in the area of Porto Marghera. Using the conjoint choice methodology, two important surveys were implemented adopting two different perspectives. The first assumes the point of view of the developers who have to realize the interventions and the second represents the population who can benefit from these interventions.