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Cultural Heritage in Albania. The management of the relationship between historic Centers and Modern Cities
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The Adaptation of the Traditional Cities to Contemporary Use. Interventions in Historical Areas: The Case Study of Gjirokastra
No full textThis paper examines the current situation of the protected historical cities, especially the one’s that are under UNESCO protection, investigate the problems related to the contemporary use and tries to define a methodology of intervention to adapt them to the current lifestyle and the requirements of modern society. According to our preliminary investigations, it was observed that these traditional cities have difficulty in access and mostly on wheels’ mobility. Firstly, the traditional urban pattern of these cities, due to the limited width and high slope, find difficulties to adapt their structure into contemporary vehicular flows which nowadays are subject to traffic code standards. Secondly, traditional cities, because of their image preservation, are very sensitive on defining appropriate parking areas for new vehicles. The excessive car presence in the city center because of congestion, pollution, and occupation of central streets hinder tourism development in the area. The objective of this paper is to define instruments and strategies for the contemporary development of the historical centers, by cleaning them from “modern” elements to restore their lost traditional identity. The initial hypothesis is by-passing central areas and creating several potential parking areas for vehicles nearby, in order to avoid traffic in the city center and have a clear and undisturbed image of the traditional urban environment and an immediate impact on the character and identity of the city. This hypothesis, which will be verified through the spatial transformation of the specific case study of Gjirokastra historical city, can be adaptable in other equivalent cases. Specific interventions proposed, will be based on the theory and rules of restoration, local and UNESCO laws on urban heritage and construction standards
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
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