170 research outputs found
Genova, città sospesa tra passato e un futuro da costruire.
No full textGenova è una città che emoziona e incanta, ma è anche una città che sa essere discreta e misteriosa. Da tempo, ormai, Genova verte in una situazione di estrema difficoltà, evidente nel forte calo demografico, nella crisi economica, nel degrado urbano di molte sue parti, piuttosto che nel crescente rischio ambientale. A partire dalla visione propositiva del rischio, prevista da Beck, nonché dall’idea di crisi come momento più fecondo di cambiamento, ipotizzata da Einstein, questo scritto propone di ripartire dai maggiori elementi di criticità di Genova, al fine di ipotizzare un’idea di città in grado di ridisegnare il proprio sviluppo sociale, urbano ed economico proprio a partire da questi parametri, identificati come potenziali e strategici punti di forza
Alessandra Terenzi Viaggio in Levante. Armature urbane, popoli e paesaggi
Get PDFAlessandra Terenzi Viaggio in Levante. Armature urbane, popoli e paesaggi
(Boves, Araba Fenice, 2016, 420 pp., ISBN: 978-8866173335)
di Sara Ferrar
Genova. Resilienza e sviluppo
No full textQuello genovese è un sistema urbano assai complesso, che nella sua continua evoluzione ha dovuto confrontarsi con una molteplicità di vincoli e di possibilità d'ordine geografico chiamti in causa dalla dinamica economica e sociale della citta
Climate Change and Social Inequalities: the Gap Between Climate Solutions & Environmental Justice
No full textThe Davos World Economic Forum (2023) confirmed that climate risks and social inequalities are two sides of the same crisis.
Inequalities represent one of the greatest obstacles to sustainable urban regeneration in smart cities, for a real equitable future based on a neutral climate scenario. The last Oxfam report (2023) reveals that, for the first time in 25 years, extreme wealth and extreme poverty have increased simultaneously and 2020 is likely the year with the largest increase in poverty since World War II. The fight against inequalities therefore represents one of the main 17 objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
At the same time, from various studies on the place and role of the Anthropocene (Pellizzoni, 2021) in today's crisis, it emerges that the human impact on the planet has never had such rapid times and such devastating consequences as in the last twenty years, where the impacts of climate change have reached historic highs. Nevertheless, the climate crisis caused by the richest 1% of the world's population produces devastating effects mainly on the poorest, who bear the least responsibility, while the Oxfam carbon budget (2023) is rapidly depleted just to allow a super-rich minority to consume more and more. Inequalities and climate change, therefore, feed each other.
It is therefore unthinkable to believe that we can solve the climate crisis without acting directly on inequalities, since the benefits obtained on one side could be neutralized if we do not act on the other side at the same time.
Climate change could also represent a multiplier of all kinds of existing inequalities, leading to the construction of new environmental inequalities caused by a form of distributive injustice of extreme weather events. According to such a specific form of injustice, that led some scholars to reflect about an intrinsically racist dimension of climate change (Williams, 2022), the worst effects of this environmental crisis always end up concentrating more violently on poor areas and more vulnerable groups, causing serious direct and indirect damages. Even the numerous "climate solutions" put in place by several governments for the ecological transition can turn into further causes of climate inequality and climate exclusion.
Climate justice today therefore assume a central role in the process of ecological transition.
This study proposes to apply a critical reflection of these theories, demonstrating the inseparable correlation between fragile areas/populations and the impacts of climate crises through the selection and analysis of some case studies referring to Genoa, an historically polycentric city, shaped by multiple centralities and peripheries. This also allowed to experiment on a local/urban scale some dynamics and theories generally projected on a global scale of reference, thus considering the profound differences within the same city, whose different cases have been analyzed on the basis of three dimensions used in order to classify different forms of distributive injustice: the temporal dimension, the social one and, finally, the territorial dimension (Pellizoni and Osti 2008).
This research aims to demonstrate how the fight against social inequalities could represent a concrete opportunity to think about new theoretical paradigms in a neutral climate scenario towards an actual equitable ecological transition, opening up new possibilities for sustainable urban regeneration in smart cities.
Frammenti di vita all’ombra del Ponte: Storia di una strage annunciata
No full textThe collapse of the Morandi Bridge, a crucial industrial hub for the national economy, exposed deep systemic weaknesses, creating feelings of loss and disorientation within the lo-cal community. This research, based on disaster sociology, focuses on the residents of Via Porro, the area most directly affected. Here, the disaster’s effects are multifaceted and com-plex, marked by empowerment processes and emerging conflicts, accentuated by a zone clas-sification system. Management inefficiencies and institutional control strategies have exacer-bated existing inequalities and vulnerabilities, creating tangible and intangible boundaries that divide destinies and leave unhealable wounds. Politically, the urgency of physical reconstruc-tion has not been matched by a parallel social regeneration strategy, leaving the needs of a severely impacted community unmet
Landscape revolutions in the Levant: between massive migration flows and new economic structures.
No full textSince the mid-nineteenth century, the Palestinian urban and cultural landscape has
radically changed. The settlement revolutions in Palestine, together with deep transformations in
the economic structure of the Country and new infrastructural systems, have left their mark,
changing the structure of the existing landscapes. The new Jewish immigrants, coming from multiple
cultures, moved into a limited geographic area with a rich history. With the advent of Zionism, the
urban and rural landscapes, theaters of conflict with indigenous peoples, became the instrument
through which the Zionist ideology aimed to establish a link with the history, re-evaluating ancient
and forgotten sites in contemporary purposes. In particular, this investigation will focus on a
historical axis in central Palestine, in
which different urban and territorial contexts will be considered
Viaggio in Levante. Armature urbane, popoli e paesaggi.
No full textQuesto libro è il racconto di un viaggio alla scoperta di realtà diverse, città e territori.
I luoghi e i popoli narrati si trovano nel Levante, la fascia del Vicino Oriente bagnata dal Mediterraneo: uno scenario di grandi civiltà, dove la convivenza tra le diverse etnie, culture e tradizioni, continuamente ridefinita da intensi flussi di popolazione, si manifesta con evidenza nella condivisione dei paesaggi, specchi di vita, storia, cultura.
In questi luoghi il paesaggio diventa una lente attraverso cui è possibile ricostruire le evoluzioni insediative, gli elementi caratterizzanti e l’eredità del passato, sul nostro presente e sul nostro futuro.
Questo viaggio in Levante si sviluppa lungo l’antica via carovaniera che, dalla città-porto di Jaffa-Tel Aviv, conduce sino a Gerusalemme e, attraversando sia Israele che la Palestina, prosegue potenzialmente fino a Amman, in Giordania e oltre, nell’entroterra mediorientale dell’Iraq, sino a Baghdad.
Il mutevole panorama insediativo che si delinea lungo questo ricco asse di popolamento tra Oriente e Occidente è caratterizzato dalla giustapposizione di situazioni differenziate, definite da territori, strade, ferrovie, paesaggi, città, villaggi e attività agrarie
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