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Spatial Tensions in Urban Design. Understanding Contemporary Urban Phenomena
No full textThis book provides an original research perspective to the field of contemporary urban conflicts. Even though violent conflicts have transformed cities during the XX century, it is nowadays possible to identify the phenomenon of “Tensions” as a specific contemporary both social and spatial urban changes catalyst.
Through a collection of essays from various disciplines focusing on international case studies—from India to Europe to Latin America— the publication explores the multifaceted concept of “spatial tensions” as a lens for better understanding contemporary urban transformations. While tensions often depend on spatial dispositives and superstructures, they also offer a powerful key for design practices and strategies
A New Vision Regarding Spatial Tensions in Urban Design
No full textTogether with the urban movements from the 1970s, the 1980s or the contemporary ones, with conflicts regarding the right to the city, social emancipation, political oppression or environmental issues, a different kind of conflict is also entangling the contemporary city: spatial tensions. It is a weaker but more persistent form of conflict happening in any city’s everyday life between opposing forces. Far away from violent conflicts and riotous surges, contemporary tensions are usually hidden, sometimes implicit or explicit: the opposing forces do not turn into a struggle but remain noiselessly and dynamically tense. Also if such a specific form of conflict is many times weak and invisible, it generates strong and relevant transformations of the city: spatial tensions are represented by minute, continuous, overlaid, dilated over time and still in progress modifications of space
Spatial Tensions in Architectural Design: Strategies, Projects and Visions
No full textThe essay studies the concept of tension in architectural design: how it could become a tool of intervention and in what extension tensions could be captured in the recent projects we find in our cities. Milan tells of a continuous overlap of different tensions that have developed in many forms over the last few years, precisely after constructing some significant new interventions in the city. Starting from the projects, nearing completion, of Porta Nuova and City Life and from the new interventions that have been recently opened, including the transformation of the former railyard system, the essay tries to describe the latent tensions that are generated in the different design phases. Tensions that work on different levels, starting from the contrast between the traditional language of the city and the new and iconic architectures that these projects define, up to the tensions related to the design and construction of contemporary public space. Interpreting the tensions of the major urban projects already underway or about to be built in Milan means understanding what relationships exist between tensions, architecture, and design and identifying what forms of tensions new interventions could generate in the city
Aging and Space. An Emerging Catalog of Spaces in Tension
No full textThe article explores how aging begins to transform the spatial structure, the modes of functioning, and the image of the city and questions what remains after thirty years of the migratory phenomenon of the elderly population on the Costa del Sol, in Spain. The Andalusian coast has been affected by migration for a long time. It has also been able to modify itself accordingly, composing the flows of the elderly with those of other people and communities, exhibiting the terms of a new situation always in tension between different forces. In this unique situation in tensions, what remains is a territory that no longer responds to the only restrictive dimension of Europe’s retirement resort. Today Costa del Sol consists of components that react differently to the presence of the elderly through a succession of fragments approached in a paratactic way. Among which the elderly figures only as one subjects of construction and use of the territory. Both when it is the protagonist and when, on the contrary, it is excluded. Finally, the fragmentation of the territory inserts the challenge of having to rethink policies, projects, and actions that must be reconciled with a new fragmented life of the elderly
Latent Tensions and Urban Change in Two Milan Neighbourhoods
No full textLatent contentious issues, which significantly characterise urban neighbourhoods, are frequently present and underway for many years in cities, even if they do not emerge as open or explicit conflicts (Moessner, Del Romero, 2015). They contribute to shaping urban transformation at different scales and work as more or less visible lines of tension, moving between space and social practices. Using the urban tension framework to analyse recent transformations means being able to detect such lines of contention and possible fractures even when they do not emerge as visible conflicts, an ever more common condition in post-political urban settings, in which horizontal governance practices often contribute to remove conflict and contentious issues from public discourse.
The chapter concerns the interpretation of latent urban tensions in two complex and multi-layered peripheral neighbourhoods in Milan, Corvetto and via Padova, characterised in one case by large social housing compounds, and in both cases by changing populations, forms of marginality and disadvantage, but also by very lively and active local communities and forms of grassroots activism. Moreover, in the last few years, both areas, even if with different intensity, have been the object of a number of urban regeneration policies and innovation programmes promoted by the Milan Municipality and other local or city level stakeholders
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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