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Integrating Experiences: Palermo Mediterranean Gateway City. Identity and Innovation
No full textMetropolitan transformations of the Palermo as a Mediterranean city, guided by envisioning it as a “fluid” gateway city, has been seen as an example for the planning of other such cities in Italy and Europe. The 2025 strategic vision for Palermo was inspired by three key components: (i) the relevance of Palermo as “hub territory” in European level concerns in territorial and infrastructure development policies; (ii) the urban and regional experience with the concept “fluid city” (envisioning the city as a portal and place of interaction and exchanges, not just in terms of goods and people); and (iii) new metropolitan vision produced by new regional and national legislation on metropolitan areas. This chapter develops an understanding of how the strategic spatial plan, approved by the City Council in 2016, selected these issues and connected them in one coherent vision, both at urban and metropolitan level. The first sections trace the emergence of the plan. One concluding section reflects on the relevance of an innovative approach to the “smart city” for Palermo’s urban strategies. Main conclusions summarize development and emphasize on a need for conceptual integration
1910. Transformationen eines Arzneistoffes –- vom 606 zum Salvarsan
No full textHüntelmann AC. 1910. Transformationen eines Arzneistoffes –- vom 606 zum Salvarsan. In: Balz V, Eschenbruch N, Hulverscheidt M, Klöppel U, eds. Arzneimittel des 20. Jahrhunderts. 13 historische Skizzen von Lebertran bis Contergan. Bielefeld: Transcript; 2009: 17-51
Keep calm and let the water come. Enabling water management plans for Southwest Dutch delta to give the nature more important position in order to strengthen area’s socio-economic vitality
No full text“The global ecosystem is the source of all the material inputs feeding the economic subsystem” (Costanza, et al., 1997) and delta regions are the hotspots of such feeding ecosystem. Deltas have been one of the most nutritious and economy sustaining landscapes since the beginning of a human era. They provided food, water, connectivity, and even nowadays they remain one of the most densely populated areas on Earth. However, nature is not an inexhaustible source, it has a limited capacity and it regenerates rather slowly. In order to ensure the future of existing and upcoming generations the whole concept of economy has to change, because nature will never manage to keep up after unprecedentedly fast growing human needs. The relation between economy and nature has to change from nature-abusive towards the system, where nature and economy sustain each other. The Dutch Southwest delta is a great example of how human activities and needs obstructed the natural environment in an artificial state. The Delta Works protected the land from floods, contributed to the improved conditions of agriculture and created new possibilities for recreation sector. Unfortunately, on longer terms, the same Delta Works have worsened the natural qualities of delta environment, which turned against agriculture and tourism. What is more, due to the sea level rise and land subsidence, continuous dike heightening is unavoidable if another strategy is not involved. This graduation project investigates what could be the fruitful balance between engineering infrastructure and creating new roles for the natural processes. The socio-economic benefits from the natural areas are not widely recognized and accepted. Protection of these areas is often regarded merely as a cost or burden to the community and the economy rather than as a benefit (SMIT, et al., 2012). Robert Costanza was the first who attempted to valuate the global ecosystem by determining the ‘price’ of the ecosystem services. This graduation project is aiming to identify, quantify and to value the range of potential benefits delivered by managing the project area, and to consider the range of options available for capturing or generating financial returns from the range of benefits identified. Monetary value attachment to the nature can have a crucial impact on decision making towards more sustainable developments. The Grevelingen lake area became a laboratory for such developments. An experimental intervention on a vast scale is aiming to stir up the society and trigger discussions about new approaches of the delta management. An intervention is letting the water further inland and showing how it is possible to live with it without hampering any part of the delta system (nature, economy, safety). Involvement of monetary value and a cost-benefit analysis is bringing the subject closer to reality and can make the discussions between the stakeholders more precise. COSTANZA, R., CUMBERLAND, J., DALY, H., GOODLAND, R., NORGAARD, R. (1997). An introduction to Ecological Economics. Florida: CRC Press LLC. SMIT, M.E., BLOM, M.J., WARRINGA, G.E.A. (2012). Economische waardering en verzilvering van ecosysteembaten in Natura 2000-gebieden in Europa / Drie case studies in België en Nederland. Delft: CE Delft.Delta Interventions Graduation StudioUrbanismArchitectur
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Cultivation of the urban village
No full textBecause of a failure to recognize the stepping-stone role of the villages for the migrants, the informally organized urban villages are not integrated into the urban structure of the municipal plan. In order to address this question the first section aims to develop a framework in order to understand and describe informal development in Shenzhen. The spatial research translates this framework into spatial language. The final section the spatial is used as the basis for a number of strategies. Informal development is not a singular development, but can be understood from different perspectives. The poverty, legal, cultural and dualistic perspective coexists next to each other. The perspectives on informality inform the main stakeholders and by their decisions they shape the development of the village. As the village transforms, so does the floating population as they become urbanites. Informal development will go through a fixed set of phases in which informal economic opportunity will firstly increase and then decrease again. the goal is to achieve an situation in which integration is optimal. Existing approaches combine different elements of informality. The Chinese approach has failed to deal with multiple aspects of informality and thus deliver a comprehensive approach to integrate informal development The informal development in Shenzhen can be viewed from different theoretical perspectives. Each perspective reveals different elements to be of importance to the inclusion of migrants and integration of the village. The informal network is historically grown under the impact of the landscape, Chinese perception of the build environment and informal growth. Through the informal growth process, an ‘interior’ space was created between different neighborhoods that act as the main urban space of the village. The ability of the informal network to include migrants differs. The integrative quality of the village can be described in terms of its embeddedness in the regional structure and the quality of the interior space. The quality of this space can be described in terms of the surrounding fabric, the edge and the functions. When the empirical data from the spatial research is applied to the theoretical framework, the villages in Guangming can be categorized in five different developmental stages. The spatial distribution of the different village types follows a logic that can be explained using the informative framework. The five village types form the basis for the regional development proposal. The current interaction between informal and formal process creates an undesirable path towards decline of informal opportunities in the villages. Based on the five village types and the historic sequence of networks, a integrative carrying structure is proposed for the region. This structure has five layers which are discussed separately. Each stage is differently located in the territory and requires different formal and informal interventions to optimize the social inclusion of the migrants.Complex CitiesUrbanismArchitectur
Belgrade Meeting its Riverfront: A strategic spatial plan that articulates and consolidates the city of Belgrade and its Riverfront through a typological design based on a theory of levels and elements of existential space
No full textThe following graduation report represents the project ‘Belgrade Meeting its Riverfront’ developed as part of graduation project of the master-track in Urbanism of the MSc in Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences programme of Delft University of Technology. This graduation project was developed within the last year of the programme (2012) with the collaboration of the Complex Cities graduation studio, which deals with understanding the spatial organization of cities today through the integration and comprehension of different approaches towards the built environment. Two centers, Zemun and Old Belgrade, used to develop separately until the XX century when those two places became united within the new capital of Yugoslavia. This set up effected the riverfront that started developing actively only at the beginning of the XX century with the accent on the period after the WW2. It is quite clear that the riverfront couldn’t follow and compete to the highly developed and spatially pronounced identity and vitality of two historical cities. In this way the river had a signifi cant predisposition to develop an urban asymmetry in comparison to historical centers. This asymmetry refl ects not only in terms of identity and vitality but also in terms that the city never evolved into a city on the water. Sometimes it seems like the city of Belgrade was too long in retreat from its waterline to develop as the city on the water. This project aims to understand this relation and try to evoke it through learning from both city and its rivers.Spatial Planning and Strategy - Complex Cities StudioUrbanismArchitectur
Secondary Cities in Polycentric Urban Region: By means of a comparative study between SuzhouWuxiChangzhou Region and the Randstad
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Identifying Lost Space
No full textThe relationship between planning, economics and society in Berlin, GermanyRegional Governance, Planning and DesignUrbanismArchitecture and The Built Environmen
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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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