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The recovery of the Italian industrial heritage: the case of the Solvay Silos by Pier Luigi Nervi in San Vincenzo (Tuscany)
No full textThe Solvay Silos in San Vincenzo (Tuscany), built between 1928 and 1936 and designed by Pier Luigi Nervi and the Ceretti&Tanfani Company, belongs to that multitude of huge industrial structures which, originally built in the early 20th century at the edges of a city, after the 2nd World War was overwhelmed by the uncontrolled urban expansion, losing its use and becoming incompatible with the urban tissue.
This paper aims to present the results of a project proposal for the sustainable recovery of the silos. The project primarily focused on the architectural survey of the structure and on the reconstruction of its historical events. The analysis followed at a territorial scale, in order to understand the dynamics that could make the silos recovery an important opportunity for the community of San Vincenzo. The success of the intervention strongly depends on the level of integration with the city and on its capability of creating new touristic, cultural, economic and social opportunities. The project therefore proposes a sustainable regeneration of the structure for community services: spaces for co-working, cultural activities and for the promotion of the local food products. For this purpose, a feasibility study was developed considering gradual recovery interventions with both public and private financing in a business plan covering a period of 27 years
Tangier: a cultural bridge on the Strait of Gibraltar. A project proposal for the valorisation of the relationship between the old city and the harbour
No full textTangier, founded by the Phoenician, for millennia has been located on the edge of the Old World. The city extends its arms on the Mediterranean Sea towards the Atlantic Ocean, becoming the gate of North Africa from the Strait of Gibraltar. During the Roman Empire, Tangier was the capital of the Mauretania Tingitana, therefore the structure of the city was modified with the typical shape based on the cardo and decumanus. During the 8th century, Tangier became an Arab military outpost supporting the invasion of Spain. After the discovery of the New World, the city became for centuries an important trading center. Thus the Medina, the commercial hub of Tangier, in this context maintained the Roman military structure. Since the 15th century, under the domination of Portugal, United Kingdom, Spain and France the construction of the city walls, the bastions and the York Castle were completed; the structure of the current harbour was shaped during these centuries of wars.
The creation of a free trade zone and the consequent increase of the harbour business interrupted the historical relationship between the Old City and the sea, moving away the sea from the city and creating a coastal area with a strong criticism. The aim of this study is to show the first result of a project proposal for the valorization of the historical
town by renovating the ancient connection between the Medina and the new harbour
The ideal city of Livorno: An example of the Italian Modern Military Architecture
No full textBuontalenti designed a fortified city, shaped like an irregular pentagon, with its vertexes represented by four new bastions and the “Fortezza Vecchia". The project, started in 1577, was never completed; however, it marked the beginning of the fortress history, which was developed from the previous bastion “San Francesco”, initially the vertex of the ideal city and later the only fortified element. The project proposal for its restoration aims to reestablish the link between the fortress and the city, which was broken after many years of decay and inaccessibility. The proposal has been based on the overall knowledge of the architectural context, on a detailed survey, on an accurate analysis of its history and evolution, and finally on the study of similar projects. Such proposal has the objective to reinsert the fortress into the urban pattern from both a cultural and an urban point of view
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
Orbetello, a fortress on the water. A research for the valorization of the city and its bastioned front.
Full text linkOrbetello is located in the Southern Tuscany, at the centre of a lagoon. Founded by the Etruscans, its strategic position it has been disputed for centuries by the major European powers until 1559 when it became the capital of the small Spanish State of Presidios. From that moment, the urban fortifications were continuously subjected to modifications and updates, until the final layout in the 17th century. The current state of general neglect and the recent urban expansion of the city have greatly compromised the integrity of these fortifications. This paper intends to report the results of a research that, starting from an in-deep historical analysis, aims to define some guidelines for the recovery of the city walls and their historical value in a wider project of urban regeneration
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