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Riprendersi il centro per opporsi alle espulsioni. Il caso degli IRA
No full textContemporary cities seem to be characterised by new movements and self-organized initiatives that re-use and transform different parts of the city (in many cases marginal areas), by re-introducing them in the urban "life cycle": abandoned buildings and areas, green areas, public spaces. These very different experiences are connected to a variety of social spaces, actors and imageries.
We are talking about the transformation of vacant spaces for residential purpose, the construction of informal community gardens, the new and unprecedented forms of squatter occupations, the wide spectrum of self-construction practices and so forth. In many cases these experiences can be considered as interstitial and marginal practices. But they can also be interpreted as a growing set of actions that are characterizing a more and more diffused way of urban construction. This publication wants to collect research contributions on this themes by focusing on a wide range of experiences that are expected to be critically interpreted
I grandi proprietari di casa nel welfare abitativo milanese
No full textQuesto capitolo è dedicato a illustrare le caratteristiche di base dei grandi proprietari immobiliari che forniscono occasione di affitto calmierato a Milano, non riconducibili né al Comune né ad ALER. Ci si concentra sul loro ruolo “sociale” proprio in quanto in grado di svolgere un compito di mitigazione del costo dell’abitazione sia in forma esplicita, come quando si rivolgono a popolazioni in qualche modo “fragili” o quando utilizzano forme contrattuali dedicate (com’è il caso delle cooperative di abitanti), sia in forma implicita, quando applicano prezzi inferiori a quelli di mercato in forma indi- stinta, vale a dire senza selezionare i locatari sulla base di qualsivoglia criterio di appartenenza o di affiliazione. Si tratta, come illustrato in seguito, di un insieme molto variegato di soggetti privati e pubblici o para-pubblici che detengono un consistente stock di alloggi da destinare alla locazione e che finanziano così, la propria mission anche quando non centrata sull’immobiliare. Qui si dà conto di convergenze proprie di un mondo che è in realtà molto vario, popolato da soggetti che perseguono proprie logiche, legate alla storia, a fattori inerziali e alla necessità di valorizzare quanto si è accumu- lato nel tempo nel solco di un “modo di fare” che sia coerente e allo stesso tempo strategico
"Feels like home...". Two cases of Urban Mobilisation in Milan
No full textThe paper aims at analysing and critically discussing two cases of grassroots initiatives, promoted by citizen groups in Milan, aimed at taking back and reusing abandoned or underused common resources. The two cases, although very different for their location in the urban context, object of the mobilisation, (urban) scale, time horizon, types of actors involved and interaction with Local Authorities, show nevertheless some common elements, which will be the focus of the paper and which do open up questions for further research.
Impinging on literature on social movements and social innovation in contemporary urban settings, the paper highlights an existing tension: if the ongoing trend towards the reuse of abandoned buildings tends to be a grassroots and participated one, rather than one exclusively technically and politically driven, at the same time some very features of contemporary social movement organisations make it particularly difficult for them to take and implement effective decision making in such complex environments in evolution. The possibly conflictual relationship with Local Government and other institutional actors becomes therefore crucial to imagine possible scenarios of transformation and to frame a convincing policy dimensio
Città immaginate: il Pigneto-Prenestino e la sua fabbrica. Rigenerazione urbana e pratiche dal basso
Full text linkLa tesi si propone di contribuire alla ricerca sulle forme di intervento sulla città esistente, ponendosi alcuni obiettivi specifici correlati. In particolare, anche mediante l’analisi del caso-studio, assume importanza il riconoscimento delle possibili interazioni fra politiche e pratiche. Il lavoro si articola a partire dall’approfondimento teorico-interpretativo sulle caratteristiche dell’urbanizzazione contemporanea, sulle grandi problematiche ecologiche odierne e gli spazi di azione per individui e comunità nelle trasformazioni urbane. Passando per l’analisi critica delle politiche urbanistiche romane degli ultimi venticinque anni, la ricerca approfondisce il caso studio della riappropriazione ad uso pubblico dell’area dell’ex fabbrica Snia Viscosa nel quartiere del Pigneto-Prenestino, ritenuto significativo in ragione degli obiettivi descritti in precedenza. Le conclusioni, infine, si inseriscono all’interno del dibattito sulle possibilità di trasformazione dell’esistente e sul ruolo della conoscenza urbanistica in tal senso, lasciando dei margini di apertura per immaginare sviluppi e traiettorie future
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
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