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Sensitive urban areas as stressful place: a comparison between Rome and Naples
No full textMany European cities appear as the combination of very problematic issues that can be easily considered as significant examples of stressful places for which definitions, instruments of intervention and adequate policies seem to be not available.
The recent adoption of the concept of resilience within the urban planning theories and practices (Coaffee, Wood & Rogers 2009; Davoudi, 2012) has offered a relevant way to read some important social and spatial phenomena that can be usefully tested like "theories and practices in use" within contexts of critical concern.
Many influential contributions, all around Europe, offer good arguments for considering the enormous differences in terms of opportunities for well-being and happiness among the urban cities in the North and South of the world. As well as the Globalization and the economic crisis are regrouping forms of discrimination and social division within the same cities (Secchi 2010) with particularly difficult and uncomfortable housing conditions. Large cities appear as an archipelago where social groups of more or less marginal and distressed people live in.
Within this direction of research that problematizes the establishment of a perspective “from the South” (Mabin 2013) oriented to the identification of a map these places (heterotopias , for Magatti 2007) for a future possible spatial transformations and desirable institutional innovations, the Italian case-study allows to present a rich range of possible stressful places within a general condition of the weaknesses of the institutions and public policies, particularly evident in some large metropolitan cities of the Country. So, the paper offers an overview upon stressful places in Rome and Naples by comparing marginal areas (more or less deprived) where a different combination of spatial conditions, resilience factors, agency and social innovation outlines different trajectories "to exit" or "to stay" within an highly problematic areas.
In fact, through the comparison of 4 different urban areas of the two cities, the paper tries to develop critically the links between:
- degree of resilience (positive , neutral or negative, according with Davis, 2011) and treatability/transformability of critical areas;
- physical and institutional preconditions, and effectiveness of place-based policies ;
- degrees of social marginalization and spatiality of the “urban suffering” treated by policies.
The main objective of this paper is therefore to compare and discuss with the coordinator and colleagues, a contribution to locate and draw a map of the stressful places to interpret trends and guidelines, in the national and international framework, of the most significant and acute form of urban deprivation. Finally, regarding the policies will be proposed some possible strategies for an effective treatment of the most problematic urban issues, that should form the basis of knowledge of EU to define the framework of actions for the city in the next programming phase.Many European cities appear as the combination of very problematic issues that can be easily considered as significant examples of stressful places for which definitions, instruments of intervention and adequate policies seem to be not available.
The recent adoption of the concept of resilience within the urban planning theories and practices (Coaffee, Wood & Rogers 2009; Davoudi, 2012) has offered a relevant way to read some important social and spatial phenomena that can be usefully tested like "theories and practices in use" within contexts of critical concern.
Many influential contributions, all around Europe, offer good arguments for considering the enormous differences in terms of opportunities for well-being and happiness among the urban cities in the North and South of the world. As well as the Globalization and the economic crisis are regrouping forms of discrimination and social division within the same cities (Secchi 2010) with particularly difficult and uncomfortable housing conditions. Large cities appear as an archipelago where social groups of more or less marginal and distressed people live in.
Within this direction of research that problematizes the establishment of a perspective “from the South” (Mabin 2013) oriented to the identification of a map these places (heterotopias , for Magatti 2007) for a future possible spatial transformations and desirable institutional innovations, the Italian case-study allows to present a rich range of possible stressful places within a general condition of the weaknesses of the institutions and public policies, particularly evident in some large metropolitan cities of the Country. So, the paper offers an overview upon stressful places in Rome and Naples by comparing marginal areas (more or less deprived) where a different combination of spatial conditions, resilience factors, agency and social innovation outlines different trajectories "to exit" or "to stay" within an highly problematic areas.
In fact, through the comparison of 4 different urban areas of the two cities, the paper tries to develop critically the links between:
- degree of resilience (positive , neutral or negative, according with Davis, 2011) and treatability/transformability of critical areas;
- physical and institutional preconditions, and effectiveness of place-based policies ;
- degrees of social marginalization and spatiality of the “urban suffering” treated by policies.
The main objective of this paper is therefore to compare and discuss with the coordinator and colleagues, a contribution to locate and draw a map of the stressful places to interpret trends and guidelines, in the national and international framework, of the most significant and acute form of urban deprivation. Finally, regarding the policies will be proposed some possible strategies for an effective treatment of the most problematic urban issues, that should form the basis of knowledge of EU to define the framework of actions for the city in the next programming phase
The importance of public housing peripheries in the process of city regeneration: the Napoli’s case study
No full textThe paper explores the peripheries of the city of Napoli starting from a different definition and description of its huge public housing stock.
The main research hypothesis is that public housing transformations, their historical evolution and differences, are very important elements for the city regeneration politics design, that should be able to deal with the complexity and variety of the present problems (first of all social exclusion).
The limited effectiveness of peripheries politics is often tied to an erroneously homogenous reading of the peripheries as if they were an homogeneous thing.
For this reason the paper proposes a description of the Napoli’s peripheries based on their public housing dimension, that it is important to redefine the different characteristics, invariants and problems of this parts of the city.
Through this process of re-descriptions of the different peripheries, with theirs ‘evils’ (or values), we recognize background’s emergencies and problems that supply indications for the treatment of important problematic dimensions as policy design proposals for the peripheries public politics
The importance of public housing peripheries in the process of city regeneration: the Napoli’s case study
No full textThe paper explores the peripheries of the city of Napoli starting from a different definition and description of its huge public housing stock.
The main research hypothesis is that public housing transformations, their historical evolution and differences, are very important elements for the city regeneration politics design, that should be able to deal with the complexity and variety of the present problems (first of all social exclusion).
The limited effectiveness of peripheries politics is often tied to an erroneously homogenous reading of the peripheries as if they were an homogeneous thing.
For this reason the paper proposes a description of the Napoli’s peripheries based on their public housing dimension, that it is important to redefine the different characteristics, invariants and problems of this parts of the city.
Through this process of re-descriptions of the different peripheries, with theirs ‘evils’ (or values), we recognize background’s emergencies and problems that supply indications for the treatment of important problematic dimensions as policy design proposals for the peripheries public politics
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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