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The quarries and the transformation of the landscape: a planning model. The Apulian case and the possible non-regional implication
No full textIl Paesaggio delle aree umide costiere: strategie di analisi e progettazione per la fascia costiera di Ugento
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The discovery of an ancient underground city of Cappadocia in the heart of the Mediterranean
No full textThis work aims, for the first time, to publish the results of complex research that has led to the discovery of underground connections and routes, underground factories, and churches on the small island that was once the medieval city of Taranto and which, between the tenth and nineteenth centuries AD, became one of the most important and luxuriant city-emporiums in the Mediterranean. Contrary to what has hitherto been assumed, these spaces were not created in different periods and as isolated forms but were actually conceived as a single urban form, an underground city, a basement city of what was to be the new city of Taranto, re-founded in the 10th century, and of which it was to be the true economic and productive engine. Hence the need for the identification and architectural cataloging of a submerged, fragmented and forgotten heritage that could, in fact, constitute the real driving force behind the future urban and social transformation of Taranto's Old City
The invention of the italian "lungomare" and the monumental image of the city. The Sea line between Bari and Tripoli
No full textAt the end of '800, Italy became a new nation and timidly trying to build its own national identity. It will confront immediately with the need for expansion of the cities, just gone beyond the bounds of its city walls. Thus opens the way for that fervent period, rich in architectural and urban experimentation that, starting from the end of the '20s will infect the Italy and many Mediterranean countries.
The main Italian coastal cities which until then had experienced the relationship with the sea in terms of defense and protection, almost to the point to deny it, by this time become places of a strong expressive research based on the ability to build a new relationship with the water. The image of a large new urban unit, visible by those who come and watch the city from the sea, becomes a new, specific, cultural and expressive choice.
It was born in these terms the urban theme of the "lungomare", the picture frame in which the Italian cities built their monumental and scenographic image toward the sea. The "lungomare" thus becomes for the Italian architectural experimentation, especially during the Fascist period, a manifesto of national identity; a new vehicle of communication, necessary to symbolize the power (especially in the cities of southern Italy), and steer the Italian colonial policy towards other Mediterranean regions. In this perspective, we can interpret the experiences of lungomare of cities such as Bari and Taranto in Apulia Region, but also the contemporaneous and very often similar experiences of Tripoli and Benghazi, in the Libyan colony
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