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Sebastiano Bultrini (1867-1936) ingegnere, architetto e urbanista: dall’attività romana tra le due guerre alla ricostruzione della Marsica post-sisma del 1915
No full textThe professional carrier of Sebastiano Bultrini confirms the specific role that an engineer assumed in town planning and construction during the difficult years starting from the financial crisis of late 1880 up to the 1930s.
Bultrini, born in Villa Romana of Carsoli (AQ), obtained his engineering degree at the Royal University Roman in 1892 and was already employed in early 1900 between Abruzzo and Lazio in the realization of infrastructures aimed at modernizing that territory (e.g. roads, bridges, aqueducts, schools etc.).
His forty years of professional life is marked on one side by World War I, the Fucino earthquake (1915) and the rise of Fascism, on the other, by reconstruction of Marsica and the revival of housing in Rome during 1920-30.
His studio was in via Urbana at Rome (at least from 1914) where he worked successfully in particular for private clients in housing, ranging from the new peripheral suburbs, to renovation or superelevation in historical areas up to the challenging projects for the Cooperativa Il Villaggio dei Giornalisti at Aventino, via Spallanzani e via Scialoja.He was one of the main figures for post-earthquake reconstruction starting with the Plan for Avezzano and varies civic and religious building in that town and other Marsican centres. During the Fascism regime he was also involved in the realization of Casa del Balilla and of the Complesso Nautico at Tagliacozzo, in collaboration with the architect Enrico Del Debbio. In addition Bultrini elaborated the Tagliacozzo urban plan adopted in 1933 after a less fortunate participation in that of Pescara
Avezzano 1915. Conoscere e riconoscere una nuova identità
No full textThe tragic earthquake of 13th January 1915 is only one of the historical events that during past centuries determined the transformation of settlements in the Marsica, the region surrounding lake Fucino before and after its draining. This area was originally inhabited by the Italic population of Marsi.
However, this earthquake generated a major transformation in the Marsican settlements, and in particular in the small town of Avezzano which was heavily damaged due to its vicinity to the epicenter.
This dramatic event in Avezzano seems to have definitively interrupted the historical-urban continuity which characterized the identity of such ancient centers. This small town was reconstructed according to the Master Plan dated 13 October 1916 by engineer Sebastiano Bultrini. The new constructions were situated adjacent to the original site which was in turn demolished substantially and rebuilt in a new manner. From that moment on, the town seems to have lost its historical urban and architectural identity.
My contribution began after extensive bibliographical-archivistic-iconographical research aimed at identification and cataloging of historical buildings which sprang up during the last decades of 1800 and in particular after the earthquake of 1915. The goal points to identification and knowledge of the architectural character - residential in particular - and of the urban quality of building texture, roads and squares which gave form to the new Avezzano
Sebastiano Bultrini (1867-1936) ingegner, architetto e urbanista: dall’attività romana tra le due guerre alla ricostruzione della Marsica post-sisma del 1915
No full textVie e piazze dell’Aquila tra storia, resilienza e reinvenzione
No full textThe system of ‘voids’, squares and streets constitutes an irreversible imprinting of the form urbis of L’Aquila, an expression of the specificity of its founding process. The geometry of the chessboard that underlies it – an autocratic expression regulating design that finds its metaphorical and representative synthesis in the Fonticulano plan – has, over the centuries, preserved its connective role between the productive and social choralities, participants and protagonists of the urban life of the squares, of individual locali to public ones.
This is a system that, over the centuries, has highlighted the ability to adapt and resilience to reconstructions and transformations resulting from the repetition of destructive earthquakes. The post-unification transformations of the city, which became the capital of the Abruzzo region, and their consolidation in the first half of the twentieth century strengthened the North-South axis, Corso Federico II and Vittorio Emanuele II, assigning it a financial and dynamic character through the presence of banks and public administration buildings arranged along the new arcades, the seal of the bourgeois value of this promenade, place of public recognition of social belonging.
More than a decade after the earthquake, L’Aquila is progressively re-appropriating its poles of aggregation, within a context marked by profound socio-economic changes and ‘suspended’ from the epidemic of Covid-19, the latest recent social trauma whose impact on urban form and community rituals is difficult to assess.
Nonetheless, programmatic strategies and spontaneous processes are reviving and recomposing the squares and streets of the city, recovering the buildings and the monumental context that characterizes them, giving the city its specific identity, including cultural, administrative, scientific, religious, recreational, leisure and buildings dedicated to entertainment. This is a process where resilience and reinvention must recover the material as well as the immaterial, both individual and collective senses of the city community: the coagulating force that has held the city together since its foundation.
The text is related to the entries (by Patrizia Montuori) that follow and that highlight the transformations of the last two centuries and those in progress, including: Castle Gardens and Auditorium. Piazza Santa Maria Paganica. Corso Vittorio Emanuele II and Federico II. Piazza Duomo. Palazzo dell’Emiciclo and Villa Comunale. Corso Principe Umberto e Piazza Palazzo. Basilica di San Bernardino
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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
Statistical methods to analyse the genetically modified food: a case study
No full textThe extension of genetically modified (GM) foods has been highly controversial in Europe, and particularly in Italy. Consumer scepticism is usually attributed to the low level of public knowledge about the health consequences of GM foods, particularly the risks and benefits The purposes of this research are to verify the degree of spread relating to genetically modified (GM) foods in Italy and to construct a statistical model in order to analyze the Italian habits regarding the consumption of GM foods. In the research has been gathered a questionnaire to the school students selected school of a metropolitan area (Naples, South-Italy). The questionnaire consisted of questions focusing on school cultural characteristics and questions regarding awareness and uses about GM foods. The data obtained have been elaborated by a structural equation model
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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