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Metro-Scapes: Metropolitan Cartographyfor Mapping Hybrid Landscapes
No full textNowadays, the metropolitan process of spatial fragmentation and spatial heterogeneity demonstrate how Metropolitan Landscapes shall be understood as spaces for changing the practice and cultural expression of those who inhabit them. At the metropolitan scale, hybrid landscapes are plastic spaces and transitional membranes that connect nature with territorial infrastructure networks according to trans-scalar visions, from a rural environment to historic centres to urban districts and neighbourhoods. The Supra-scalar dimension of Metropolitan Landscapes undergoes sudden changes: the spatial relationships between 'local/global/hybrid', 'urban/rural', 'culture/nature', and 'traditional/contemporary; this is the investigation issue of Metro-scapes through Metropolitan Cartography maps. Specifically, the research aims to dynamically set up open-data and open-source Protocol Maps to make them interoperable, combinable, and scalable through modelling Metropolitan Landscapes. They are Figural Landscape Units since they are defined by their geographical structure (section) and durable cultural permanences (name). Therefore, Metro-scapes propose a new taxonomy of Metropolitan Landscapes in which the metropolis's tangible and intangible cultural heritage declines according to new spatial categories aimed at shaping Metropolitan Landscapes of Infrastructures, Exchanges, Transitions, and Obsolescences. In conclusion, as Metropolitan Landscapes are complex systems of space networks, Metropolitan Cartography contributes to rethinking the spatial form of specific hybrid urban-rural metropolitan contexts, their spatial ecology and public spaces' average linkage according to new land-use patterns of URLs. These new spatial interactions thus open up the city's design to a range of creative agents and to an array of new spatial typologies and their corresponding effects able to stand despite the incidental spatial pressures generated by physical phenomena of uncertainty and vulnerability from the metropolitan scale
What is the quality of the space?
No full textUnderstanding the effects of a metropolis' changes in scale - the rate of growth and its speed -
rather than pursuing the search for optimal city size, is mandatory. The New Urban Agenda
discussed performance dimensions of the contemporary city’s functioning mode, knowing that
place quality derives from a mutual effect with the society that uses it. However, our research
focuses on how city performance dimensions can be measured to establish the values of the
metropolitan form that are capable of endowing metropolitan projects with meaning. The
Metropolitan Paradigm of inter-scalar connection and the Metropolitan Architecture Project
Hybrid Typology are references to measure the metropolis’ performance. The Metropolitan
Paradigm concerns the five city dimensions: physical, economic, energetic, social and governance.
In particular, the aim of the paper is to study the physical metropolitan framework and its impact
on the lives of metropolitan inhabitants, socio-economic flows and the meaning of the concept of
"environment" today. The city is still analysed as a spatial phenomenon represented by
data/quantities related to space. Nevertheless, the value of form plays a fundamental role within
the Metropolitan Discipline at all scales, as spatial relationships within metropolitan settlements
are increasingly not metric but relational. In conclusion, we study the connection between history
and geography, environmental issues, the Metropolitan Structural Paradigm, and the new Public
Realm heterogeneous elements to represent the metropolitan quality and living-related values
that constitute the Metropolitan Democracy’s opportunity
Metropolitan Cartography: An Inventive Practice Tool for Caring Metropolitan Landscapes
Full text linkTo focus on issues of the resilient city on the metropolitan scale, it is important to understand the metropolitan city as a system that uses complementary actions to work with local projects for maintenance to preserve, improvement to increase, and transformation to grow, increasing the scale of local projects. Metropolitan City is a system that allows places to relate to each other in order to implement and care for metropolitan landscapes and their resources. To outline and give a spatial image to these relationships, the maps of Metropolitan Cartography are projects that identify the spatial components that make the landscapes dynamic, order spatial categories according to a new taxonomy for mapping the urban-rural interdependence of spaces, and structure gradients of tonal rhythms of landscapes that can be reprogrammed for new inventive patterns of land-use.
Metropolitan Cartography (MC) is therefore, a methodology capable of interpolating spatial data in a new synthetic map for digital design practices. With MC maps, it is possible to spatialize new land-use patterns from the global to local scales by mapping open-source data obtained through data mining, data settings, and data semiotics following the metropolitan architecture design process. In particular, the Metropolitan Cartography experiment allows us to contextualize qualitative and quantitative open-source data, finding and highlighting implicit relationships between heterogeneous informative layers, which help to characterize the state of care and neglect of metropolitan landscapes at ‘southern latitudes’.
Thus, the operational findings of Metropolitan Cartography maps for caring metropolitan landscapes are outlined as methodological steps that make visible spatial relationships not yet detectable on the ground, which can be shaped by interpolating geographical, social, and economic factors.
The maps allow for stages of project design and practices through repeatable and scalable open-data processing, which allows and supports sequences of logical choices for metropolitan architecture projects
Ragusa Ibla_San Paolo neighbourhood: regenerative cultural common
No full textIn XX century Italy abandonment is a widespread phenomenon. In the case of S. Paolo – a neighbourhood in the periphery of Ragusa Ibla, a UNESCO site in Sicily -, abandonment is linked to 1) the fragility of its geographical position; 2) the contraction of economic growth; 3) the lack of "modern" urban services. These three factors are interlinked and active as circular causes of the present condition of abandonment of S. Paolo. The paper presents our proposal of intervention working on the three factors together through a two-steps method: first, we clarify at different scales the issue (abandonment) and the processes that are producing it; then, we intervene on the three circular and non-linear causes, according to our vision of complexity. Our method also acts on the currently widespread development practices, which could entail the risk of manipulating the identity of a historical place in defining not a collective but only a private space (planning gentrification) and without producing a sustainable project in the long-term spam. We follow a Design Thinkers approach within a Practice of Metropolitan Discipline: every analysis is project-oriented and evidence-based
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
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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