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The new metropolitan voices.Glossary of metropolitan terms
No full textThe need for a glossary for the metropolitan discipline emerged from the long experiences of the HEI co-financed Erasmus + Tellme's partners working in the multidisciplinary environment of metropolitan context. A clear set of definitions describing various concepts of the new metropolitan discipline subject is fundamental for accessible communication among the different fields in the academy and with the practitioners. Glossary serves to understand the different perspectives from various fields and topics.
The complexity of the new discipline requires a different perspective in framing the issues and solutions, and the Metropolitan Glossary is a way to begin creating the new conceptual structure of the discipline. Based on the primary needs identified above, the characteristics of the Metropolitan Glossary can be divided into four main categories: linkage between practical values and theoretical principle background, the link between qualitative narrative and quantitative data, flexibility, and accessibility.
Clear communication among various agencies in a metropolitan project is an important issue. The issues and the solutions in the practical context are as valuable as the theoretical knowledge in understanding the principles of the metropolitan structure. However, the time difference in academia and practice create a gap between theory and practice. Often the symptoms of metropolitan issues occur unpredictably, and the decisions need to be made in real-time when the gaps are revealed to reduce the negative impact of the conflict. Even though in some cases, academic knowledge is required in the form of consultancy, often the knowledge is highly specialised and has a limit in addressing the complexity that spans across multiple disciplines. Therefore, it is fundamental to change the way knowledge is being built from the beginning. The Metropolitan Glossary has numerous entry points so that both theoretical and practical knowledge is accumulating in the form of keywords. The discussion goes beyond the individual terms and focuses on the relationship amongst words composing the fundamental concepts in the metropolitan discipline.
It is an open-ended collection of vocabulary brought and discussed by experts of various fields
The genesis and purpose of metropolitan architecture, its discipline in the era of the bigness at the metropolitan scale
No full textThe Narrative Structure of the Agro-Urban Metropolitan Territory. The Metropolis as Hypertext for the History of the Twenty-first Century: A Network of Middle Cities as an Operational Topography
No full textHypertext is a set of documents placed in relation to each other using
keywords. In the context of the metropolitan discourse, it can be considered as a
network of emerging urban epicentres. The reading of a metropolitan territory can
take place in a nonlinear way. The citizens’ self-consciousness and the ability to
move around freely are the backgrounds for the metaphoric transposition of the
hypertext concept in the metropolitan dimension. Reversely, to understand the
metropolitan issues using the hypertext concept, the individual choices among a
wide range of elements placed in relation to each other become significant. The
relations of various types of space and nature are managed by a subjective mapping
that is constantly updated. In the contemporary urban narrative, especially from the
governance perspective, there is a lack of storytelling, to establish a new physical
metropolitan paradigm and discourse. To introduce the metropolitan hybrid
agro-urban territory to the new metropolitan population requires a process of
building a narrative of the territorial identity and citizenship, through a powerful
metaphor. The goal of a metropolitan project is to define a space with collective and
public dimensions through the new hybrid urban forms that are public, common,
entertaining or productive. In order to build this gradient of metropolitan space and
define its functional and symbolic values and forms, it is necessary to develop new
syntax and grammar for the design
The Disciplinary Approach to a Metropolitan Qualified Way of Life – Projects & Tools
No full textThe Metropolitan Approach to
Complexity. Regarding the Großsstadt of the last
century, I have to point out a discontinuity. That
is why we say that we are dealing with a Post-
Metropolis Era, and not with a polycentric city.
Instead, nowadays, Metropolis is a net-city. It is not
only referring to nodes and poles but the space in
between the infrastructure – the body of space,
as G. Shane called it in 2005 – which we have to
reconceptualise. Nevertheless, we are not referring
to a conurbation, but we have to understand a new
entity with a new DNA, and we need new tools to
comprehend and design it
E.N. Rogers al Politecnico di Milano: ripercorrere un'eredità-E.N. Rogers at Politecnico di Milano: retracing a legacy
No full textQuesto studio delle lezioni tenute dal prof. Rogers negli anni ‘52/’56 ancora assolutamente attuali,costituisce il fondamento di un corso di Elementi d’Architettura.
Dare di nuovo voce a chi rappresentò il momento d’iniziazione, vuol dire, però, porre nella prospettiva della competenza milanese elaborata nella modernità, il mio lavoro con gli studenti di oggi. Le lezioni di oggi così potrebbero divenire il punto d’avvio al mestiere per gli architetti di domani. I laboratori che completeranno il ciclo del loro percorso, avranno così radici profonde per spingersi ben dentro i problemi d’oggi e saperli guardare “sub specie architettonica”. Con queste parole di Rogers, ribadisco la sapienza del maestro che sui “fatti” dell’architettura (opere che hanno fatto storia) costruiva un pensiero teorico sull’idea degli stili non intesi come regole che ebbero vigore in un tempo, ma come conquiste dell’arte nel farsi più esperta dei propri mezzi di osservazione e conoscenza del mondo per l’abitare degli uomini.
Un’avvertenza. Lo studio, in quanto tale, non è un puro documento. Ho rispettato la lettera delle lezioni, per penetrarne i contenuti. Non ne ho fatto oggetto di uno studio filologico.
D’altra parte, nel presentarlo, intendo riattivare la memoria del pensiero di chi, per rinnovare l’architettura moderna, si confrontò con i predecessori, Milizia, Boito, Annoni.
Lo fece dicendosi solidale al pensiero di Gropius, perchè condivideva, con Argan, i suoi principi etici. Non so se potesse condividere l’insegnamento della sua scuola.
In ogni caso la parola chiave che coniò come blasone, continuità, rifiuta la tabula rasa. Dunque, Rogers cercava di attingere i principi metastorici dell’architettura. Il cui fondamento era l’“analisi” delle opere d’architettura, a partire da quelle più recenti, ma nel contesto di una comparazione essenziale con le più antiche, nella convinzione che fosse necessario “rinnovare” l’idea di modernità non solo nell’Architettura. Nel prendere posizione per la modernità, chiamando a suo mentore Gropius, l’intento era quello di rinnovare la modernità. Il rifiuto della “discontinuità” che considerava sterile, era inteso appunto ad un rinnovamento che potesse attingere ai fondamenti che si dicono metastorici, per indicarne la funzione genetica nella replica. La replica rinnova, tradisce e tramanda.
Genesi è la duplice azione interdipendente del costruire sé stessi e edificare. Per costruire sé stessi infatti occorre assimilare il sapere di chi ha fatto prima. Operare un’analisi di ciò che si è osservato. Ma per costruire bisogna concepire un’idea dallo “sperare contra spem”. Un duplice fondamento, in sé stessi e nel mondo genera l’azione del costruire. Questo è il fondamento filosofico dell’Architettura per il quale occorre avere praticato l’arte e il mestiere per farne la teoria. La teoria viene sempre dopo l’aver fatto. E si fa solo al presente. Perciò l’opzione della modernità non fu mai in discussione
A new method for automatic Multiple Partial Discharge Classification
No full textA new wavelet based feature parameter have been developed to represent the characteristics of PD activities, i.e. the wavelet decomposition energy of PD pulses measured from non-conventional ultra wide bandwidth PD sensors such as capacitive couplers (CC) or high frequency current transformers (HFCT). The generated feature vectors can contain different dimensions depending on the length of recorded pulses. These high dimensional feature vectors can then be processed using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to map the data into a three dimensional space whilst the first three most significant components representing the feature vector are preserved. In the three dimensional mapped space, an automatic Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) algorithm is then applied to classify the data cluster(s) produced by the PCA. As the procedure is undertaken in a three dimensional space, the obtained clustering results can be easily assessed. The classified PD sub-data sets are then reconstructed in the time domain as phase-resolved patterns to facilitate PD source type identification. The proposed approach has been successfully applied to PD data measured from electrical machines and power cables where measurements were undertaken in different laboratories
The disciplinary approach to a metropolitan qualified way of life-projects & tools
No full textThe Metropolitan Approach to Complexity. Regarding the Grosstadt of the last century, I have to point out a discontinuity. That is why we say that we are dealing with a Post-Metropolis Era, and not with a polycentric city. Instead, nowadays, Metropolis is a net-city. It is not only referring to nodes and poles but the space in between the infrastructure-the body of space, as D.G. Shane (Shane 2005) called it in 2005-which we have to reconceptualize. Nevertheless, we are not referring to a conurbation, but we have to understand a new entity with a new DNA, and we need new tools to comprehend and design it
Metropolitan Landscapes
No full textOne of the main objectives of the book is to open a dialogue amongst cross-cutting discipline experts to discuss approaches, tools, and case studies focused on the coexistence of urbanity and ecology. The book focus is on case studies at the metropolitan scale and discussion about toolkits, based on the reading of the territory with the geographical, urban, architectural, economic, environmental, and public policy perspectives. It introduces the concept of Practice of Metropolitan Discipline, something which is new. The specificity of the new discipline is in its field of action, where the starting point is higher than the local case. The idea is to bring the local case to an absolute generalisation, as the level of awareness of the local policymakers and civil servants must be raised to the complexity of the metropolitan phenomenon.
The necessity of a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach and the Prac-tice of Metropolitan Discipline became a common ground for our academic ex-change in the past years. The Practice of Metropolitan Discipline supports the construction of the metropolitan spatial structure with organisational and technical expertise, proposing the big projects of the metropolitan urbanity. It is based on the physical and virtual network between the new city shape, the interfaces among built capital and natural capital, and the new forms of conviviality. The rapid urbanisation in the past few decades changed the scene of urban life on a global scale radically. Many critical issues have arisen within the physical and spatial transformations of the metropolitan regions. Social and economic inequality, the fragility of environmental systems caused by global climate change, the emergence of the political idea of the metropolitan dwellers as global citizens, the preservation of cultural heritage, and the governance and policy issues are only a few of the challenges that frame what we call 'the Metropolitan Complexity'. These issues cannot be addressed with a single, static, and traditional disciplinary approach, but instead, require a comprehensive and multidisciplinary vision to understand them. According to some scholars (e.g. Monte-Mor Roberto Lu s, 2014), we need to develop a different way of conceptualizing the new metropolitan territorialities. Metropolitan experts have to shape the city dimension starting from an environmental perspective (the environmental question in its urban and metropolitan dimensions), to evaluate the relationship between city and countryside, and subsequently, the links between the metropolis and the region, as well as the settlement patterns in contemporary metropolises.
Our book provides metropolitan key studies as generators of theoretical contents and approaches, data, experiences, good practices, and tools to remove or avoid obstacles in order to plan the metropolitan city/region. Metropolitan solutions are focused on pragmatic integrated strategies as tasks that the current city must adopt
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