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NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANNING IMPROVEMENT: PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES, COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE EVALUATION AND ACTIVITIES IN TWO NEIGHBOURHOODS IN ROME
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This study proposes a psychological analysis of the relationships between people and their residential environment in two neighbourhoods in Rome, within the theoretical framework of place theory. The analysis was aimed at getting indications for neighbourhood improvement, which can lead to residential satisfaction and neighbourhood attachment. We considered both constructs as the result of the relationships between the physical attributes of the environment, the cognitive perceptions and the affective appraisals of residents, and the activities they carry out. The role of socio-demographic and residential variables was also considered. Theoretical implications of results and indications for neighbourhood improvement are discussed. Residential satisfaction and neighbourhood attachment have a different pattern of predictors, emerging from all the dimensions of analysis we considered. Using hierarchical linear models, cognitive, affective and behavioural variables emerged as significant first level predictors of both criterions, and physical attributes were found to be significant second-level predictors. In addition, the joint analysis of objective neighborhood features and residents’ experience within a place-specific framework showed to be an effective approach to identify relevant domains for neighbourhood improvement. Commercial and leisure facilities can contribute to make the neighbourhood more lively; building density and green areas have inverse effects on the prevalence of social activities
Meanings and attitudes towards urban green: an approach to urban ecology.
No full textOn étudié les significations et les attitudes des habitants vis-à-vis des espaces verts dans la ville, en se référant à la théorie des Representations Sociales (Moscovici, 1976; Bonnes, Secchiaroli, 1992). Une attention particulière a été portée aux significations les plus et les moins consensuelles qui fondent cette representation sociale.
A partir d'un échantillon de 519 sujets d'âge, de sexe, de niveau scolaire et de lieux de residence différents, on a dégagé deux principales dimensions de signification: l'une à donminante “socio-centrée”, l'autre à dominante “individu-centrée”; chacune se rapporte différemment aux diverses representations selon qu 'elles sont plus ou moins répandues. Pour les significations les moins consensuelles, deux nouvelles tendances dans les attitudes sont apparues, qui différencient les sujets et qui sont liees aux variables socio-demographiques et socio-culturelles qui les caractérisent
Legami affettivi e disimpegno morale in soggetti di età evolutiva all'interno del sistema familiare.
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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