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Maintenance and Urban Sustainability
No full textThe quest to attract urban sustainability involves accepting city as a “resource”, since such a capital, having an anthropic origin and so rich in value and history, has been accumulated thanks to the exploitation of natural capitals. Such an approach can contribute to achieve (even social) development aspirations, provided that the capital and the fluxes of natural resources are not exploited and degraded so as to compromise their future usefulness.
The city, “unsustainable” by definition, in such a view aims to sustainability objectives, being intended as a resource, a place where to express the material culture of civilization, place where opportunities, values, information, events and social, economical and cultural life are joined together.
The challenge of city care involves assuming urban development sustainability as the scenario within which the adequate levels of care, maintenance-conservation and consumption have to compare themselves with development aspirations, but at the same time the consumption/substitution of capitals made of urban resources should be coherent with the exigency of maintaining natural resources as well as those resources generated by anthropic action; such a challenge will have to be won by identifying new forms of urban policy, recognizing and enhancing the value of the role of maintenance for preserving the physical-natural-cultural heritage, by means of scientific processes of planning and control and by carrying out adequate action strategies
Per un archivio dei materiali da demolizione nei territori della ricostruzione / A repository of recovered materials from post-earthquake reconstruction areas
No full textFollowing the series of 'severe' seismic events that began in 2009, Italian legislation classified demolition debris as urban waste, despite Directive 200898EC calling for the reuse/recycling of 70% of all waste from human activities by 2020. This choice will produce a technical, cultural, environmental and economic impoverishment in territories already under heavy strain. Considering the convergence between the paradigms of the Circular Economy and Smartness, the essay identifies possible technological innovations for creating repositories of recovered materials. Collective activities and spatialities tied to processes of selection, reuse and recycling can generate forms of social-organisational-collective resilience required to confront the losses and damages suffered by a community
Tornare a scuola: scenari per la condivisione degli spazi scolastici tra attività educative e pratiche abitative
No full textLe città continuano a crescere, ma la recente crisi mondiale economico-finanziaria che sembra tutt’altro che superata,
sta delineando improvvisi cambiamenti e mutazioni nelle trasformazioni urbane e nelle forme di gestione ed evoluzione degli spazi della collettività. Se è vero che i modelli urbani globalizzati sembrano espandersi in modo omogeneo in tutti i territori dell’abitare, portando con loro il problema del ripensamento degli spazi della convivenza di una collettività sempre più eterogenea, è anche vero però che a un’esponenziale diffusione della metropoli totale si sovrappone ormai una rinascita di microspazi essenziali della socialità, incentrati sull’appropriazione dello spazio da parte dei cittadini e sull’ibridazione di pratiche, tecniche, materiali e linguaggi che oscillano tra progettazione programmata dall’alto e azioni spontanee attuate dal basso.
In questa direzione, il tema del recupero e della gestione degli spazi della scuola può rappresentare una sfida progettuale importante per il prossimo futuro, se posta in relazione alla domanda sempre più crescente di ripensamento e qualificazione degli spazi collettivi delle città contemporanee
Resilienza, tecnologia, ambiente costruito
No full textL'articolo, nell’ambito delle attività di costituzione del cluster Progettazione ambientale della SITdA, presenta alcune riflessioni condotte sul tema della resilienza dal gruppo BETHA dell'Università degli Studi G. d'Annunzio di Chieti-Pescara e che possono delineare potenziali linee di sviluppo di interesse centrale per l’area della Progettazione tecnologica dell’architettura
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
Cultura di manutenzione
No full textI contenuti di questa pubblicazione scaturiscono da studi e ricerche sulla manutenzione condotte dagli autori negli ultimi venti anni in settori solo apparentemente diversi: l'industriale, il costruito ed i servizi. L'accumulazione e l'ordinamento di tanto materiale sulla manutenzione, hanno spinto gli autori a progettare la realizzazione di un volume espressamente dedicato a descrivere ed analizzare i fondamenti della cultura manutentiva contemporanea. L'opera in questione si è rivelata più ampia del previsto e pertanto si è pensato di anticiparne alcuni elementi, particolarmente originali, in un "quaderno" che riassumesse le principali direttrici di sviluppo assunte nella attività di ricerca. Il risultato sono quattro contributi non strettamente collegati fra loro, ma attraversati dall'attualissimo tema della sostenibilità presente come una "radiazione fossile" in ogni aspetto della manutenzione
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
Between the River and the City. Resilience VS Vulnerability in Settlement Systems of Fluvial Environment
No full textIn the presence of increasingly frequent extreme weather phenomena, water management in complex settlement areas, such as those located in a fluvial environment, involves not only the reduction of that area’s fragility but, more importantly, the regeneration of the lost interactions between the physical, economic and social dimensions of the area.
Research conducted along the Pescara river has taken up this challenge, reinterpreting the critical environmental
situation of the case study areas as the chance to oversee a more ample “water project” which could tackle the vulnerability
of the territory by identifying new means of resilience and responsiveness to adverse natural events and by carrying out proactive coexistence scenarios between cities, inhabitants, institutions and natural resources
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