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The identity of the city in motion: the Chinese case
No full textIdentity is not a system of fixed values. The city's transformation produces new centers, suggests unexpected relationships between different sides, indicates unusual way of use, renamed places which combine with new identities. This process is accentuated in the contexts in fast transformation that, due to the phenomena of globalization, suffer the risk of losing the cultural heritage of the past. How is it possible to imagine an urban development compatible with the identity of the place? The paper aim is to discuss the concept of the identity of the place in Asiatic fast changing contexts, with a peculiar focus about China, retrieving a selection of theoretical contributions and significant case-studies. The thesis is the need to hire a design attitude when facing the concept of identity. This makes it possible to introduce a reflection on the elements of potentiality and weakness, open to the different ways that the architectural project for the city can undertake. Through the comparison between different theoretical positions and design strategies the paper focuses on the emerging issues that the design project need to tackle. The paper is a personal contribution to the actors of urban transformation, targeted to open a discussion about the role of the project in the construction of the identity of the place
Riuso architettonico e fragilità
No full textLa ricerca PRIN 2022 dal titolo La governance per la reticolarità montana: co-progettazione ed attivazione di un ‘contratto d’abitare’ per la rigenerazione territoriale della Valle Seriana (UniBG, Polimi) si fonda su un dispositivo giuridico innovativo che consente la realizzazione di progetti di riuso partecipati, finalizzati al potenziamento dei servizi al cittadino.
In questo ambito è stata sviluppata una strategia di contrasto all’abbandono, fondata sull’idea di reticolarità tra sistemi montani e di massiccio, a cui si lega
la formulazione di azioni di riuso architettonico, intese quali cura e riattivazione del territorio.
Gli ambiti di trasformazione toccati dalle strategie progettuali ed illustrati dalla tavola sono: l’antico maglio abbandonato di Ponte Nossa e il sistema ambientale
ad esso connesso; l’ex laveria delle miniere della contrada Riso (Gorno); le stazioni ferroviarie abbandonate di Ponte Selva e Clusone e il tracciato dismesso, trasformato in pista ciclabile
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
AUID open access - milestone f22
No full textThe Architectural Urban Interior Design (AUID) Ph.D. program promotes research on architectural design, with studies and projects aiming at different scales, contexts, and finalities. Research activities grow on the critical analysis and development of design processes and techniques in dynamic relationships with the urgent questions related to the urban and rural environment and the green, blue, and grey infrastructure. Research is supported by acquiring and elaborating insights and skills linked to contemporary architecture’s theoretical and critical horizon.
The Milestone is the biannual meeting where all candidates meet the Faculty Board to discuss the ongoing research.
The Milestone of Fall 2022, 17-21 October, takes place in the Atrium of Building 11, in Campus Leonardo, in an open access modality, welcoming Students and Professors interested in being acquainted with the AUID program
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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