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Planning Tools and University Cities: How Can Urban Regeneration be Driven by Students’ Growth? the Case of the City of Turin
No full textThe urban history of the city of Turin is significantly influenced by its industrial past, which has led to the existence of numerous brownfield sites that require regeneration. This research examines the interrelationship between urban regeneration and student growth in a post-industrial city. This relationship is investigated within the city's Strategic and Urban Plans, which provide the basis for the future urban planning. The two main universities in Turin, i.e. the Polytechnic and the University of Turin, have been identified as pivotal stakeholders in the processes of urban regeneration and economic development. This is due to two main factors: firstly, the growth of the student population has led to an increased demand for dedicated educational spaces; secondly, these institutions have the potential to exert influence over the city's planning decisions. The expansion of these entities in brownfield areas demonstrates how universities have reused these sites, thereby contributing to the dynamics of urban renewal and the revaluation of real estate assets. These dynamics have also impacted property values, increasing rental prices, particularly in neighbourhoods close to campuses. Within this context, strategic plans should be able to analyse the positive and negative effects of urban regeneration in view of the development of a new General city Plan
Participatory Strategies for Supporting Decision Making in Cultural Heritage Adaptive Reuse Interventions
No full textParticipation is a multifaceted process that has become increasingly popular in projects and scenarios where the needs of the community have to be included in the decision-making process. In the context of cultural heritage management, these approaches are essential to ensure that the perspectives of all stakeholders are reflected in the proposed strategies. This paper traces the participatory process employed in the design of new functions for Villa Carpeneto, a historic building in the metropolitan area of Turin, Italy. The objective was to involve local stakeholders in order to facilitate social learning and improve the legitimacy and effectiveness of the decision-making process. To explore possible scenarios for the reuse, the study adopted an integrated approach that combined several steps. It started with a historical review and an examination of the broader territorial context. This was followed by a participatory phase involving the local community. First, a workshop was organized to open a dialogue with local stakeholders. Later, a questionnaire was distributed to collect more structured feedback on possible future uses from residents. The findings highlight how involving communities in the decision-making process can support the sustainable reuse of heritage sites and strengthen the long-term value of shared planning
Assessing the Tourist Carrying Capacity of a UNESCO World Heritage proposed site
No full textIn destinations where tourism represents a significant economic and cultural development source, it is crucial to address and mitigate the associated threats and challenges. In this regard, the present study aims to analyze the concept of sustainable tourism. This concept promotes tourism development while protecting environmental resources and preserving local cultural identities. The tool employed for this analysis is the Tourism Carrying Capacity (TCC), a methodology that was initially developed to define the maximum number of visitors a destination can handle without compromising its sustainability. The paper explores
the evolution of this concept from both a theoretical and practical point of view, applying the most recent approach. The integrated methodology employed in this study aims to evaluate this concept to propose management guidelines for the
management of cultural heritage sites. This paper will apply the methodology to the real-case study of the Sacra di San Michele. This abbey is a site of significant cultural, historical and spiritual value to the region of Piedmont and is currently listed as a tentative World Heritage Site. The results highlight the need to redesign the direct access to Sacra, with a better management of public transport and interchanges between public and private transport. In addition to setting the basis for a balanced management of the site while preserving the environmental and cultural values, this paper aims to demonstrate the importance of adopting
integrated methodologies for decision support in complex contexts such as the cultural heritage sites
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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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