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Redesigning the Single-Family House: A Critical Look Back, and a Glance Forward
No full textThe chapter develops a twofold reflection. On the one side, it critically assesses some design approaches dedicated to single-family housing that influenced the academic and professional discourse in the last five decades such as sprawl containment, the replacement of low-density fabrics with more compact settlements and the densification paradigm. On the other side, it indicates an alternative projective perspective based on selective demolition, alteration and retrofitting of the existing housing stock, which places the potential of single-family housing centre stage into the wider transformation process of low-density settlements
Domestic Spaces, Family Models, and Gender Roles. Investigating the Imaginary of the Villetta Housing Type in Italy
No full textThis essay investigates the villetta as an exclusive place of privacy and domesticity, and where the nuclear family model becomes consolidated. The aim is to investigate the origin, evolution, and architectural typologies that have marked, and still characterize, a large portion of the Italian housing stock to understand its current impact and possible future uses
BELOW THE SHADOWS
No full textPostwar Europe served as the canvas for the aspirations of the Modern Movement to be realised on an unprecedented scale. To fight the housing shortage, each nation organized reconstruction plans amounting to tens of thousands of residential units per year, encouraging the production of modernist neighborhoods.
The layout of the dwellings aligned with the principles disseminated by contemporary international examples, yielding the success of functionalist organizational principles.
However, while the design of domestic spaces and building types grew more and more specialised, another field of architectural expertise did not enjoy the same success in those years. In opposition to perfectly working interiors, the design of the open spaces and the patches of landscape around the buildings remained a more ambiguous domain, with design categories, reference models, and ideal objectives being less clear.
This text investigates three post-war Italian social housing case studies and how the Ina-Casa Plan's organicist and bottom-up culture could not build a consistent vocabulary for open space, leaving each project to deal with its landscape and ground conditions as an isolated problem
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
What’s Next for Mom and Dad’s House? Vol. 1 Essays on the Single-Family Housing Type and Its Future
No full textWhile interest in reuse and circularity is growing, little attention has been paid to redesigning the extensive residential territories made up of single-family houses built in the second half of the twentieth century in many Western countries. Yet changing demographics, socio-economic transformations, shifts in housing preferences, and the attractiveness of the city as a productive space have exposed the financial, material, and cultural crisis facing these settlements. In light of such trends and given the sheer size of the phenomenon, retrofitting the single-family housing stock can be regarded as one of the most urgent yet unresolved issues in architecture and urban design today. This book explores the transformative potential of single-family housing across diverse geographic contexts, bringing together insights from a range of emerging and established scholars from the US, Europe, and Australia
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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