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Il Centro Storico: Centro Commerciale Naturale
No full textNel contesto italiano, il forte rallentamento della domanda interna e dei consumi che si è verificato a partire dagli anni Novanta del secolo scorso accompagnato dallo sviluppo della grande distribuzione, che ha saputo cogliere le opportunità derivanti dalla riduzione del potere d’acquisto dei consumatori e dal peggioramento progressivo delle condizioni di accessibilità del centro urbano, hanno accentuato la fase recessiva del commercio dei centri storici. Nonostante questi ultimi siano, al momento, investiti da notevoli pressioni che spingono verso un cambiamento più o meno radicale, esiste la possibilità che il particolare paesaggio commerciale che li caratterizza possa affermarsi come un nuovo modello di sviluppo capace di promuovere ancora la cultura urbana, accanto al modello funzionalistico, attualmente in espansione, orientato agli spazi periferici. Si consolida quindi l’idea che la presenza del piccolo commercio nel centro cittadino sia un elemento necessario per garantirne la vitalità.
Le difficoltà in cui versano i centri storici e le attività commerciali in esso presenti non sono imputabili esclusivamente alla diffusione della grande distribuzione; piuttosto, si ha l’impressione che dietro a questo alibi si nasconda una difficoltà reale di comprendere, amministrare e progettare un luogo che vive di sottili e delicati equilibri, in cui abitare e fare acquisti, incontrarsi e lavorare sono attività fortemente integrate.
Pertanto, al fine di consentire il rilancio della rete commerciale urbana è necessario procedere attraverso interventi di riqualificazione e rivitalizzazione in una logica integrata che ne valorizzi la valenza di centro commerciale naturale, in modo da costruire nuove condizioni per la ripresa economica e sociale di queste aree.
Il progetto di centro commerciale naturale tende a valorizzare, mediante un processo di integrazione, il rilancio del centro cittadino con l’affermazione e lo sviluppo del piccolo commercio attraverso la creazione di una cultura di impresa nei negozianti e l’incremento della loro capacità di erogare sevizi aggiuntivi al consumatore soprattutto con il ricorso a forme di aggregazione con altri operatori della zona.
In linea con altre realtà italiane, anche a Catania è stato attivato un progetto di Centro Commerciale Naturale nato nel tentativo di arginare gli effetti dannosi provocati dall’avvento dei centri commerciali extraurbani
Local development and territorial cohesion in Sicily
No full textThis work deals with the territorial governance policies.
A large number of recent european studies of sustenance and development, in the economic geography field, show that researchers are more and more interested in integration, cohesion and sustainability.
Furthermore, as the new structural programme (2007-2013) suggests, the main goal for the human, natural and istitutional elements of the territory is to achieve social and territorial cohesion.
For this reason, we have dwelt upon different sicilian territorial projects and by using several indicators, we aim at conducting a research of competitiveness in sustainability in order to start a territorial policy of regional cohesion based on turism
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
Mediterranean culture e agriculture: instruments of territorial redevelopment. Wine-gastronomy tours in Sicily.
No full textA tourist itinerary constitutes an experience of the discovery and knowledge of the identity of places, of lifestyles, of landscapes, of the past and present, and of future prospects. This occurs through the identification of panoramic views and of places of particular historical and cultural interest. Wine and gastronomy, and land use and sustainability, are the characterizing elements through which food and wine tourism, and its implications for the economic development of the Mediterranean, especially Sicily, emerges. Such an itinerary provides tourists with an overview of a region and its cultural values. Wine and gastronomy tourism permits the tourist to perceive an all-encompassing vision of the visited region and its cultural values. This tool for territorial promotion and redevelopment can be defined as a process of knowledge which is prepared for the tourist and which is guided not only by professional services but also by the tour operator who has a particular interest in the place visited. The identity of a place is not passive and static, but rather it is a continuous recreation of the genius loci of the community. This implies an approach to territorial development that values heritage, considered both in the sense of an exceptional value to humanity, as attributed to UNESCO, as well as in the sense of an historical persistence that has influenced the decisions of a community in critical moments of its history. From the point of view of the production of knowledge, the specific abilities of local inhabitants, especially in the countryside, are welded with skills of a technical and scientific nature, along with a vision of the world that is inspired by the place itself. A rigorous and positivist analysis of the phenomenon, with reference to a full redevelopment of the diverse and considerable wine, agro-alimentary and environmental heritage, conceived in the broadest sense, embraces an approach that is based upon the quality of supply, upon local knowledge of authentic products and cultures, and upon the involvement of all actors upon whom depend the success or lack of success of a process for developing sustainable and competitive wine and gastronomy tourism. Denominations of origin for the protection of typical local products; wine roads and gustatory paths that are capable of revealing the values of an area, and therefore of putting them in the framework of rural tourism; special publishing events and products; new communication technologies; and new industrial associations and initiatives are all tools to be used with the scope of transforming the productive culture of places and culinary traditions into tourist products that are capable of constructing a territorial brand, to win an economic and cultural gamble that is of extraordinary importance for an island like Sicily which sees in tourism a strategic sector that can trigger mechanisms for enduring and sustainable development
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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