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Verso una rigenerazione operante della città
No full textIn the name of regeneration, the study on the historical city and the deep linkage between
city and architecture is renewed. For years at the heart of the political agenda in Europe and
worldwide, “urban regeneration” not only implies a comparison with history, but also global
objectives of social inclusion, economic upturn, environmental sustainability. A design project is
more difficult when placed in a historical context left to decay, a melting pot of different people
and a crucial point in the metropolitan layout that calls for a complete and complex renew of
the relation between architectural design and urban morphology. This is the case of the San
Lorenzo district in Rome, an urban island intra moenia once was recognised for its archaeological-
monumental heritage that is now recognisable for its anthropological-cultural mixité. This
article aims to define guidelines and strategies that qualify design when it fits into a consolidated
urban fabric, highlighting the role of morphology as an analytical prerequisite for interpreting
the built landscape and a synthetic one for configuring new spaces as a natural evolution of
reality. The challenge of contemporary design lies both in understanding and respecting the inner
logic of a specific city neighbourhood and in making it unique and operating within a more
complex and cross-scale system. Regenerating does not mean generating again, but knowing
how to continue creating unity, continuity and vitality of the urban organism
Regeneration and Sustainability: a comparison of practices
No full textIn a view of a city as a living system reframing urban theories and images starting from the 20th century,
regeneration is the organic metaphor with which a contemporary city was represented,1 as well as a
very common term in political programmes and latest generation planning tools. The biological
meaning applied to the urban environment does not only mean rebuilding spaces and renewing
functions, but restoring new dignity to places for life where citizens can identify with. The concept of
“urban regeneration” implies policies and intervention projects to improve abandoned, unqualified or
socio-economically, spatially and environmentally degraded urban areas.2 This notion has evolved over
time to meet the growing needs of an even more dynamic reality, shifting from punctual rehabilitation
action within the urban fabric to integrated programmes extended to the entire urban area aimed at
promoting economic activities, restoring sociality, recovering urban ecosystems.3 The purpose of
regeneration is to take into account the complexity of urban habitat by encouraging development and
improvement in many sectors simultaneously, so as to foster economic growth, decrease social and
cultural inequity, strengthen community cohesion and social capital, minimize climate change risk.4
Such all-embracing nature of urban regeneration is also its greatest limitation: difficult challenges along
with the need to satisfy multiple interests have produced partial and incongruent outcomes favouring
people or business alternatively. This is why sustainability, in its various declinations, is embedded
with urban regeneration policies, especially regarding the interaction of initiatives to support the city
economy, living standards, climate change adaptation and mitigation. Regeneration aims to favor new
urban life processes capable of generating social and economical dynamics, but mainly environmental
ones: indeed, awareness and protection of the built environment form the basis of the whole concept of
sustainability. However, including sustainability in the urban practice is to be supported by a significant
cultural change, in the absence of which the essence of sustainability remains a mere label with no real
content. Regeneration goes far beyond the objectives, aspirations, and results of urban upgrading
La duplice identità di abitare la vacanza. Cini Boeri. La Rotonda e la Casa bunker, la Maddalena, Olbia, 1966-67
No full textRiflettere sui connotati del Moderno Mediterraneo attraverso due casi studio per individuare una κοινὴ comune a precisi confini geografici. Cini Boeri, uno tra i pochi volti femminili dell’architettura italiana del secondo dopoguerra, offre un’interpretazione assai personale dell’abitare. Definisce un modo altro, rigoroso ma flessibile, di vivere la casa, cucita addosso all’uomo, nella taglia perfetta: un abito come riparo, come stile di vita.
E dove può cogliersi la massima attinenza tra corpo e sua protezione, abitante e costruzione, se non nello scenario vacanziero. La necessità di un ricovero, l’epifania di un desiderio inconscio trova collocazione nel Golfo dell’Abbatoggia, alla Maddalena. Qui la Boeri conforma, come un oggetto di design alla grande scala, lo spazio antropocentrico intorno e a misura d’uomo, del suo corpo come delle sue idee
From nature to the city and back: the case of Clodio Square, Rome.
No full textThe topic is Piazzale Clodio, one of the unfinished edges of the city: on one side, it physically touches but does not integrate with the slopes of Monte Mario, whilst on the other side lies the built and consolidated city.
The city as planned in 1909 stops at the edge of Circonvallazione Clodia, which it draws as its border; failing to advance due to the interruption from the messy front of Monte Mario.Today it looks like a slot of asphalt (an asphalt buttonhole) welcoming a confused flow of buses and cars: judges, lawyers and defendants cross it daily.
It is a rather undefined space, a spit of indefinite land that glides downstream to meet up along the asphalt of Circonvallazione Clodia. Only several planted trees and huge advertising billboards conceal the unfinished nature of an empty square, which became a bus terminal, parking, junction and roundabout over time.
In this special context a part of the urban fabric, confined between the Panoramic road, Via Teulada and Monte Mario, shows itself as ground parking and circus events, an undefined place full of potential where the city can reconnect to the landscape
Organic growth as a process to reach a resilient and sustainable city
Get PDFFrom the beginning of the year 2000, cities are in continuous development at an unprecedented speed, hosting every year larger populations. In this urban horizon of constant growth, cities play a crucial role in affecting or improving the living quality of human beings and the successful interaction among social, environmental and economic systems. As a living organism, the city acts as a complex system of shapes and functions able to evolve in time to stay alive. The term ‘resilience’ means the ability to resist or survive by changing those features of every organic system including the city. The resilience of urban form represents a method to guide the growth of contemporary cities, also included in the ninth and eleventh Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) respectively. Nowadays, most towns are featured by uncontrolled urbanisation that seems not compatible with the natural city’s inclination towards resilience and sustainability. These terms are often used interchangeably, while they are complementary. If associated with urban form, these terms are still unexplored avenues of research as well as a preliminary investigation. In particular, there is a gap in the field literature matching urban morphology, resilience and SDGs. This paper aims to reply to the following question: how can urban morphology actively enhance the city's adaptability and its sustainable processes of change? Merging the City Resilience Framework from the Rockefeller Foundation in cooperation with Arup and the Global Indicator Framework for the SDGs from the 2030 Agenda, it provides a theoretical and methodological contribution to translate them into urban fabrics and typologies, by hypothesising a set of new requisites enable to comply with resilience science and sustainable development. The research results will foster advancements in spatial morphology to further direct urban policy and practice towards a more organic approach to city evolution
El rol civil del arquitecto, entre ciudad y sociedad
Get PDFEl crecimiento de la población urbana es incontenible. Por lo mismo, en las ciudades proliferan los asentamientos informales junto a inequidades y conflictos, pobreza y desastres ambientales. Las ciudades siguen siendo los principales catalizadores del crecimiento económico y civil, pero hacerlas más inclusivas resilientes y sostenibles es uno de los objetivos más difíciles de realizar por la comunidad internacional. ¿Si el fenómeno de los asentamientos informales se ha difundido tanto y la ciudad se produce por sus propios habitantes, ¿cuál debería ser el rol del arquitecto contemporáneo? ¿Cómo puede contribuir a recualificar el ambiente, la arquitectura y la sociedad? Bajo un enfoque socio-antropológico, este artículo intenta dar respuestas a estas preguntas, concentrándose en el contexto latinoamericano en donde se manifiesta el urbanismo informal y en la figura del arquitecto como partícipe de las iniciativas de regeneración urbana. Al mismo tiempo, se analizan algunos de los más recientes y renombrados casos de transformación territorial que evidencian el compromiso civil del arquitecto y la necesidad de integrarlo en órganos institucionales que tradicionalmente rechazan su rol y autoridad
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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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