7 research outputs found
I senza dimora e il centro storico gentrificato tra architetture del controllo, spazi purificati e spazi di interdizione
No full textQuesto capitolo analizza il rapporto tra persone senza dimora e spazio pubblico urbano. Focalizzandosi sullo spazio pubblico di Piazza Verdi, situato nel centro storico della città di Bologna, lo studio prende in esame il ruolo di Piazza Verdi nella quotidianità dei senza dimora, l'emergere di eventuali conflitti con altre popolazioni urbane che vi gravitano, i cambiamenti che investono questo spazio in particolare e Bologna in generale, e infine, le politiche di controllo, nella forma di arredo urbano e ordinanze locali, che si traducono in un'esclusione della popolazione senza dimora dallo spazio pubblico
Being young and homeless in London: understanding urban spaces of homelessness
No full textThis is a review of Emma Jackson's book "Young homeless people and urban space
Recensione a Lippert R.K., Walby K. (2013), Policing cities. Urban securization and regulation in a twenty-first century world
No full textQuesta è una recensione al libro di Randy K Lippert e Kevin Walby, intitolato Policing cities: urban securization and regulation in a twenty-first century world
Homeless people and public space
No full textQuesto lavoro di ricerca analizza il rapporto tra persone senza dimora e spazio pubblico, dedicando particolare attenzione alle recenti strategie di politica urbana mirate al disciplinamento dello spazio pubblico. Lo studio è diviso in due sezioni. Nella prima sezione viene delineato il quadro generale che si profila a livello internazionale, sottolineando tre dimensioni centrali: 1) il ruolo essenziale dello spazio pubblico nella quotidianità dei senza dimora; 2) i cambiamenti che investono lo spazio pubblico sotto la spinta di processi di rinnovo urbano; e 3) il crescente controllo degli spazi pubblici che conduce all'esclusione dei senza dimora. Ad imbuto, la ricerca si concentra su due realtà territoriali europee, Bologna e Amsterdam. Basandosi su una metodologia qualitativa, che privilegia interviste in profondità, osservazione diretta dello spazio pubblico e le tecniche proprie della sociologia visuale, creando e usando le immagini come indicatori visuali dei processi in atto, accanto all'analisi delle politiche sia sociali che urbane, l'indagine individua gli spazi urbani significativi per i senza dimora, tracciando le pratiche d'uso dello spazio pubblico e le sue caratteristiche, e le risposte che la città fornisce rispetto alla visibilità di questa popolazione che, soprattutto nel centro storico rinnovato, pone problemi di ordine, di decoro e di riorganizzazione dell'arredo urbano. La ricerca, pur cogliendo il carattere contingente e condizionale dei processi di controllo, mette in luce che, di fatto, vengono creati spazi di esclusione all'interno del contesto urbano che frequentemente coincidono con gli spazi vitali per la popolazione senza dimora. Si conclude riflettendo sull'immagine di "città vetrina" sottesa a questi processi, una città a uso e consumo di pochi che, evidentemente, non potrà mai essere una "città per tutti", alimentandosi, al contrario, di esclusioni.This research project analyses the relationship between homeless people and public space, with particular attention given to the most recent strategies of urban policy aimed at regulating public space. The study is divided into two sections. The first section outlines the overall picture that emerges at an international level, highlighting three central dimensions: 1) the essential role of public space in the everyday life of the homeless; 2)the changes that take place in public space following urban renewal processes; and 3)the increasing control of public space leading to the exclusion of homeless people. Then using a funnel approach, the second section focuses on two European urban realities, Bologna and Amsterdam. The research is based on qualitative methods, namely in-depht interviews, direct observation of public space and the typical techniques of visual sociology, creating and using images as visual indicators of the ongoing processes, together with the analysis of both social and urban policies. The study identifies those urban spaces meaningful for the homeless, tracing their use of public space and its features, and the ways in which the city attempts to deal with the visibility of such population, which, especially in renovated city centres, poses problems of order, decorum and reorganisation of urban furniture. While realising the contingent and conditional character of control processes, the research reveals that in reality spaces of exclusion are being created within urban space which often correspond to exactly those spaces vital to the homeless. In conclusion, the analysis reflects on the image of a "showcase city" which underlies those processes; a city evidently not for the use of all but only for the use of some, relying as it does on exclusion
The Homeless and Public Space: Urban Policy and Exclusion in Bologna
No full textL’article porte sur le rapport des personnes sans domicile à l’espace urbain. Axée sur le contexte italien et notamment sur la ville de Bologna, l’analyse focalise l’attention sur les stratégies de politique urbaine visant à exclure ces sujets des espaces publics, ou à discipliner l’usage qu’ils font de ces mêmes espaces. Les réflexions des auteurs se développent sur trois axes: le premier concerne le rôle de l’espace public dans la vie quotidienne des sans domicile; le deuxième porte sur les changements des espaces publics provoqués par les processus de régénération urbaine; le dernier explore les mécanismes de contrôle de l’espace public qui, sous forme d’interventions urbanistiques ou d’arrêtés municipaux, produisent l’exclusion spatiale des sans domicile.This article addresses the relationship between homeless people and urban public space. The analysis, focusing on the Italian context and, in particular, on the city of Bologna, centres on urban policy strategies which tend to exclude the homeless from public spaces and to regulate their use of such spaces. Our considerations encompass three dimensions: the role of public space in the daily life of the homeless; the changes in public space following urban renewal processes; public space control mechanisms, in the form of urban design and local by-laws, which translate into a spatial exclusion of the homeless
Les personnes en situation d’itinérance et l’espace public : politique urbaine et exclusion à Bologne
No full text'La Sposa trionfante' : entertainments for princely marriages in Turin, Mantua and Florence, 1608
No full textThis thesis is a study of the pageantry and entertainments which took place in 1608 on the occasion of three aristocratic marriages, those of Princesses Margherita and Isabella of Savoy to Francesco Gonzaga of Mantua and Alfonso d'Este of Modena and of Maria Maddalena of Austria to Cosimo II de' Medici of Tuscany. Volume I comprises: a brief survey of the political situation in northern Italy in 1608, including the marriage negotiations between savoy, Mantua and Modena; a discussion of attitudes to women current in the Renaissance as reflected in marriage pageantry; a full account of the pageantry and entertainments celebrating these marriages, drawing on archival material and contemporary published descriptions; a discussion of the interpretation of pageantry, the response of the spectators, and pageantry's value as political propaganda and as a means of promoting and spreading artistic development. Volume II is an edited collection (in Italian and French) of the relevant documents from Italian state archives and full transcriptions of the three principal accounts published in 1608. The thesis concludes that there is a close relationship between political changes and developments in pageantry. The rise of absolutism as the dominant form of government in Italy at the end of the sixteenth century is parallelled by the glorification of the ruler in pageantry. The stability and prosperity of the state come to be identified with the security and strength of the ruler. The thesis offers a new approach to the role of women in Renaissance politics and society through examination of marriage pageantry. Women are represented as counsellors and mediators, rarely taking action, but promoting peace and, through their role as mothers of future heirs, ensuring stability and prosperity in the state
