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Industry 4.0 and manufacturing in the city: a possible vertical development
Get PDFDeindustrialization has moved factories and jobs elsewhere, creating voids, not just space, in Western cities. The definition of the fourth industrial revolution incorporates the tendency of modern manufacturing to produce with innovative methodologies and systems, exploiting the ever-increasing development of ICT technologies and adapting it for factory applications. The production plant changes, both for the conformation of several systems that interact with each other and for a consequent occupation of the spaces. The article analyzes the evolutionary scenario of industrial production and describes the ways in which some activities can develop vertically, creating the conditions for a location in the city
Rain(e)scape. The presence of water as order and figure. The case study of stagni di Levante in Ostia
Get PDFStagni di Levante in Ostia is a reclaimed area with high risk of flooding: a flat territory where is an inhomogeneous fabric of single-family houses, a low-density horizontal landscape devoid of services and public green areas. In Urbanistic Plan (PRG), the zone is defined as “unplanned or spontaneous nucleus”, but it borders to the north with planned districts. The research unit has connected these two different types of settlement, introducing elements of verticality and functional mixité in a horizontal and mono-functional area; at the same time, the project aims to characterize the huge mass of agricultural soil and to solve the problem of frequent flooding, determined by the overabundant seasonal rains
Rooftop architecture and urban roofscape: designing the new vertical city
Get PDFRooftop architecture reveals great potentialities in favoring a new interpretation of urban spaces and new ways of living the city. Thanks to the redefinition of the morpho-techno-typological characteristics of urban-fabric, the verticalization and concentration of the city and its skyline, rooftop architecture creates unexpected spaces in contemporary metropolis, encouraging the performance upgrade of buildings and introducing new functions. This leads to the growth of innovative social and collective models. At present, the process is compromised by a lack of consideration of the contextual frame and the ‘genius loci’, due to the absence of a regulation able to relate the quality of interventions to a landscape scale. This means missing an opportunity for rethinking urban regeneration
Adapting the Story of Suibhne in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods
Get PDFNeil Gaiman’s depiction of America as a mythic place in American Gods explores “the soul of America” – what immigrants brought with them to America and what they found there. Existing scholarship explores Gaiman’s use of mythology and folklore to create a complex, post-modern narrative that is derived from different sources. This paper will focus specifically on Gaiman’s adaptation and re-creation of the Irish king Suibhne (also known as Sweeney) from different mythic narratives, forming an intertextual narrative that shows the power of storytelling in the formation of cultural identity. Further, he uses the wandering figure of Suibhne to explore the issues surrounding Irish diaspora: their emigration to America, and the implications of this cultural dislocation
Gregorio Nazianzeno, Carm. 1.2.26: edizione critica, commento testuale e parafrasi bizantine inedite
Get PDFAfter a brief introduction to Greg. Naz. Carm. 1.2.26, this article proposes the critical edition of the poem, accompanied by a philological commentary. Moreover, in order to portray the carmen’s Nachleben, the text of the Byzantine paraphrases is offered, which could be divided into three redactions (Λ, Φ and Ξ)
Note critico-testuali ai Sicioni
Get PDFFive suggestions for the text of Menander’s Sikyonioi: read φιλανθρωπῶνat line 85; ὡςἂνat line 171 has a paratragic flavour, which supports Arnott’s expunction of ὦat the beginning of line 169; retain the paradosis at line 265 and postulate an aposiopesis (ἀλλά σοι τις – οὐ γάρ;); the uncommon asyndeton ἀνίστ[ατο, | ἐβάδιζεsuggests the alternative reconstruction ἀνίστ[ασο”. | ἐβάδιζε at lines 269-270; read ἀλλ’ἄπε[ιμι νῦνat line 271
Zur Entstehungszeit und zum Text von Ps.-Victorinus, De Iesu Christo Deo et Homine
Get PDFThe author of the small poem De Iesu Christo Deo et Homineis influenced by Iuvencus and Prudentius, but his model, as argued, is Sedulius, who offers the terminus post quem. Textual notes, critical and interpretative, conclude the paper