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Learning from the historic city
No full textIl saggio qui proposto introduce la sezione del libro Cities in transformation. Research & Design. Ideas, Methods, Techniques, Tools, Case Studies, nato come rielaborazione critica del convegno omonimo tenutosi al Politecnico di Milano nel 2012 (EAAE/ARCC/POLIMI) a cura di M. Bovati, M. Caja, G. Floridi, M. Landsberger, con la supervisione di A. Del Bo e I Valente. Il testo ripercorre le tappe principali di trasformazione della città storica nelle sue diverse manifestazioni: dai casi di riuso e rigenerazione urbana, agli esempi di ricostruzione critica alla scala sia urbana che architettonica, sino ad analisi di casi studio relativi a temi di restauro e archeologia urbana
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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Rione Luzzatti in Naples: Conforming Measure of an Intervention of Urban Redevelopment
No full textThe essay describes the contents of an activity conducted in the Faculty of Architecture of Naples, between research and teaching. As part of a research of the Department of Urban Design and Planning on the restoration of the residential quarters of the XX century, particularly in the Naples metropolitan area but looking at the most advanced experiences in Europe, the programme involves researchers belonging to different scientific areas: Urban Planning and Law, Technology, Architectural Design, History and so on. The contribution of researchers and teachers in Architectural and Urban Composition focuses on the idea that the present and legitimate issues related to restoration, functional adjustment, energy saving should be included in a general reasoning on the sustainability of architectural and urban shape, recalling the opening words of L???architettura della Città by Aldo Rossi: in describing the city, we are mainly interested in its shape. Thus our contribution aims at understanding - on some carefully selected case-studies - the admissible operations on the individual residential building for its adaptation to the demands of the contemporary life or also for the restorations of its original design when compromised. But even more our contribution aims at understanding how to design interventions of replacement and/or addition, at the urban scale. Following this idea the program of the Laboratory of Architectural and Urban Composition II was built selecting as project theme Rione Luzzatti in Naples. Rione Luzzatti is a residential district built by IACP (Institute for Council Houses) in 1914-29; in this district a block was re-built by Luigi Cosenza in 1946-47 after the air raids of the Last World War. Rione Luzzatti, built on the edge of the eastern suburbs of Naples but today ???forced??? between the Central Station???s area and the Business District, shows a straight urban structure based on the repetition of a squared block and a central block intended for a school facilities to serve the neighborhood. Between the neighborhood and the expansion of the Business District to the north, a thin and long area, without buildings and free from urbanistic rules, is the place that suggests a project of addition. Moreover this project allows to hypothesize the demolition of the buildings built inside the courtyards as asphyctic densification of the original project. Some planimetric hypotheses were developed, working in concert with teachers of the Laboratory of Construction, looking at three criteria: the urban analysis, the typological issues and the energy sustainability considered in terms of orientation and shape of the buildings more than in terms of application of new technologies
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