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Book Review di "Carla Monteleone, Italy in Uncertain Times. Europeanizing Foreign Policy in the Declining Process of the American Hegemony, 2019, London, Lexington Books"
No full textMapping Urban Water Balance to support the integrated design of water cycles in the peri-urban areas
Full text linkThe paper tests the effectiveness of a methodology used to analyze the water element
in the urban context, in supporting design choices oriented toward sustainable water
management. In particular, it presents a mapping technique of the variables used for calculating
the UWB (Urban Water Balance) using the open data available for Milan. The methodology is
applied to a peri-urban area of the city's southern outskirts, the Corvetto/Chiaravalle district. The
availability of the data has allowed identifying the minimum spatial area on which to carry out a
balance of water flows using open-source GIS in the census block (CB). The methodology's
effectiveness in supporting the design choices was verified on two specific census blocks, the
first representing the diffuse residential built area, the second an existing farmhouse no longer
productive with residential functions. The main design strategy's goal was to reduce water
withdrawal from the aqueduct and reuse part of the outgoing water to limit the discharge into the
sewage system as much as possible
Fonti inedite e studi tassonomico/nomenclaturali: il caso delle raccolte di Roberto de Visiani
No full textThe systemic approach in sustainable environmental planning: References to the ecology of living systems
Full text linkThe article investigates the possibility of adopting indicators and analytical methods characteristic of the living systems ecology to understand different territorial metabolism phenomena. In addition to explore and orient deep sustainability processes in the transformation of the urban fabric, supporting a circular and self-sustaining economic model. The interpretation of the horizontal / vertical theme is twofold: on one hand, the material substrate of the design process is observed by a high level, such as enabling to grasp systemic connections necessary to eco-environmental scale; on the other hand, the construction of interactive networks promotes the emergence of new configurations in decision-making processes. The in-depth analysis of the analytical tools applied to natural metabolic processes combines the choice of horizontal or vertical physical configuration to achieve the following objective: maximizing the work obtainable (ie. the service provided to live, feed and move) with the same solar energy used. This constitutes the main law that regulates the evolution of natural terrestrial ecosystems (Odum, 1996) and represents the fundamental criterion for defining profound sustainability in the planning / design production processes of the built environment (Daly, 2008)
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