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Reading Chinese urban villages with typo-morphological analysis: the case of Shixia Village in Shenzhen
No full textWhen the Chinese ‘Opening Up Reform’ of 1979 founded the city of Shenzhen, previously- occupied rural lands that fell within newly-established urban borders were densely built up to bear the housing pressure created by the rising city. The resulting settlements were known as ‘Urban Villages’, informal clusters of concrete buildings that today house 12 million people, half of the local population, distributed in 300 villages within the planned city. As an alternative to the tabula rasa demolitions that most villages face for typological substitution today, this paper proposes a typo-morphological analysis based on the remote study of built types and the drawing of a typological map, as a valuable approach for assessing the spatial capital of these areas. Presented as a case study of Shixia, an urban village under high redevelopment pressure, the drawing of the map is possible through an online survey of satellite images, eye-level street views, recent tour footage, and a study of the settlement’s urban development. The study highlights the physical proximity between historical artifacts and informal apartment buildings, a morphological characteristic underpinning the concluding discussion on the renovation project for Shixia, carried out via the demolition of the informal urban fabric
Chapter Profilo minimo dell’opera di Riccardo Del Punta (1957-2022)
No full textThe author reconstructs and comments on the scientific production of Riccardo del Punta, examining his style, influences, lines of research, and legacy for labour law
The evidence of the city. Evidence-based approaches in urban design practice
No full textL'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachmen
City in time. Tools to handle urban past and urban future
No full textAiming at exploring the involvement of Urban Coding among the main agents of Urban Morphology formation, the PhD research brings together two tools - urban codes and typo-morphological analysis - that handle the city in their individual ways; in doing so, they set different values onto the past and the future of a city,
therefore establishing certain prior connections between the two portions of time. The present paper starts from the general assumption that urban morphology, as a multidisciplinary field where history, geography, anthropology, sociology, art history, engineering, all operate analyses on the form of the cities, and bring with them their views of time, all expressed more or less explicitly through their singular tools. The observation of the two means consisted of the reading of publications focused on their origin, development, debate, which allow to draw conclusions on their ways of considering time.
These early considerations on the view of time for this work of thesis, helped raise useful questions on the nature of the instruments intended to be used - codes and typologies - and to understand their potential, limits, and relations
Les transformations de l’action publique au prisme des réformes comptables et financières
No full textThe synergy of ground based GPS measurements and the GPS radio occultation for analyzing precipitation events
No full textThe Global Positioning System (GPS), both with ground-based and Low Earth Orbit (LEO) receivers, allows to retrieve atmospheric parameters in all the weather conditions. Ground-based GPS technique provides the integrated water vapour (IWV) with temporal continuity at a specific receiver station, while the GPS LEO satellites allow profiling the atmosphere through the Radio Occultation (RO) technique, with high vertical resolution but low temporal resolution at a specific site.
The objective of this work is to connect the convective system intensity measured by meteorological weather stations, to the storm ́s characteristics retrieved by the GPS signal.
Several precipitation events (in Europe and United States) were analyzed exploiting the potential of the two GPS techniques (i.e. ground-based and space-based GPS receivers). From ground-based receivers, time series of IWV were produced at specific locations with the purpose of analysing the water vapour behaviour before and during precipitation events and connecting this behaviour to the precipitation intensity. From LEO receivers, the profiling potential was exploited to retrieve the cloud top altitude of convective events, and we connected the cloud top altitude to the precipitation intensity.
The GPS technique can be considered as a supplemental meteorological system useful in studying precipitation events, but with very different spatial and temporal features depending on the receiver positioning. Our results are promising and the synergy of the different information provided on the same target area by ground based and LEO receivers could contribute to the development of an algorithm for nowcasting the intensity of the severe convection
Chapter Capability e diritto del lavoro: non solo teoria. Dialogando con Riccardo del Punta
No full textThe paper is a tribute to Riccardo Del Punta, intellectual and jurist. The common thread is the use of Capability Approach in labour law which links the Author to his friend who passed away prematurely. The essay is also an opportunity to revisit the basic foundations of the Capability theory and the recent debate among international labour law scholars with regard to its possible use in the great transformation induced by the double (green and digital) transition
The usefulness of the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) in the analysis of precipitation events
No full textIt is well known that the use of the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), both with ground-based and Low Earth Orbit (LEO) receivers, allows retrieving atmospheric parameters in all the weather conditions.Ground-based GNSS technique provides the integrated precipitable water vapour (IPWV) with temporal continuity at a specific receiver station, while the GNSS LEO technique allows for Radio Occultation (RO) observations of the atmosphere, providing a detailed atmospheric profiling but without temporal continuity at a specific site.In this work, several precipitation events that occurred in Italy were analysed exploiting the potential of the two GNSS techniques (i.e. ground-based and space-based GNSS receivers). From ground-based receivers, time series of IPWV were produced at specific locations with the purpose of analysing the water vapour behaviour during precipitation events. From LEO receivers, the profiling potential was exploited to retrieve the cloud top altitude of convective events, taking into account that although GNSS RO could capture the dynamics of the atmosphere with high vertical resolution, the temporal resolution is not enough to continuously monitor such an event in a local area. Therefore, the GNSS technique can be considered as a supplemental meteorological system useful in studying precipitation events, but with very different spatial and temporal features depending on the receiver positioning
Surgical anatomy of gastric lymphatic drainage
No full textThe lymphatic system of the stomach is a multidirectional and complex network composed of lymphatic nodes and vessels. Lymph node metastasis is the most important prognostic factor in curable gastric cancer and lymph node dissection is one of the main areas of surgical research in gastric cancer. Therefore the anatomical classification and embryological development of the gastric lymphatic system have been well described in the literature. The current description of the gastric lymphatic system of the stomach has a surgical orientation and follows the recommendations of the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association. A thorough knowledge of the lymphatic system surrounding the stomach proves to be invaluable to surgeons treating patients with gastric cancer. The aim of this paper is to provide a concise review about surgical anatomy of the gastric lymphatic drainage
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