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Projects of becoming in a right-sizing shrinking City
Full text linkUrban shrinkage, and more recently the rise of right-sizing and smart-shrinkage as responses to its challenges, have attracted attention among scholars and policy-makers while igniting controversy on how to interpret them. The paper argues that while recognizing the relevance of cross-scale patterns of uneven development in the determination of of urban shrinkage, research has to focus on the ways localized networks of actors respond through the mobilization of concrete policy situations and trajectories. Object of the study is the case of urban planning and policy experiments in land management and reuse, food production and local procurement in the city of Cleveland. Drawing from post-capitalism and social-innovation theories, the author posits that such experiments can represent as many “projects of becoming” towards a new community economy and concludes that right-sizing and smart-shrinkage are open, contested, fields of policy experimentation whose transformative potential has to be closely investigated by critical geographers, planners and policy-makers
Celebrare il princeps: tracce di Storie di Alessandro in Orazio e Properzio
Full text linkAccenni e riferimenti in Orazio e Properzio permettono di risalire ad alcune Storie di Alessandro come fonti dell'ispirazione poetica, con fini politici attualizzant
An Invited Commentary on: The incidence of right-sided colon cancer in patients aged over 40 years with acute appendicitis: A systematic review and meta-analysis
No full textAn Invited Commentary on "Comparison of the safety and efficacy of single-stage endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography plus laparoscopic cholecystectomy versus two-stage ERCP followed by laparoscopic cholecystectomy six-to-eight weeks later: A randomized controlled trial" (Int J Surg. 2020;76:37-44)
No full textAn invited commentary on: Does vascular occlusion in liver resections predispose to recurrence of malignancy in the liver remnant due to ischemia/reperfusion injury? A comparative retrospective cohort study Theodoraki (IJS-D-20-00188_R1)
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An invited commentary on: Optimizing response in surgical systems during and after COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons from China and the UK - Perspective. Zheng Liu (IJS-D-20-00464)
No full textThe emerging civil society. Governing through leisure activism in Milan
Full text linkThe paper discusses the emerging forms of civil society in the NoLo area of Milan that have acquired political relevance by deploying a combination of leisure and activism. The heterogeneous set of initiatives and events that, using the NoLo label, animate the urban space have two distinct traits: firstly, they exert a subtle political action which is played out at a cultural level, in particular in their ability to draw on and influence common sense and taken-for-granted perceptions; and secondly, the chosen initiatives effectively influence local policy-making processes, in line with the neoliberal governance of the city and the authorities’ promise to govern not just for the citizens but with them. The case study provides an empirical illustration of an emerging urban civil society, with specific attention on its functioning, how certain situated events were set up and unfolded, and two specific episodes of involvement in local policy-making es. The proposed research findings - including the exclusionary/inclusive pattern that shapes citizens’ involvement, the consensus-building strategy enacted by the studied civil society and the increasing political relevance of bottom-up urban initiatives - illustrate the meaning of governing through leisure activism in Milan
Chemical Looping for Combustion of Solid Biomass: A Review
Full text linkChemical looping combustion of solid biomass has the unique potential to generate energy with negative carbon emissions, while entailing an energy penalty compared to traditional combustion that is lower than that of the competing carbon capture technologies. In spite of these attractive features, research is still needed to bring the technology to a fully commercial level. The reason relies on a number of technological challenges mostly related to the oxygen carrier performance, its possible detrimental interaction with the biomass ash components, and the efficiency of the gas-solid contact with the biomass volatiles. This review is focused on these specific challenges which are particularly relevant when firing biomass rather than coal in a solid-based chemical looping combustion process. Special attention will be given to the most recent findings published on these aspects. Related performance evaluation by modeling, system integration, and techno-economic analysis will also be briefly reviewed
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