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Declaration of "outstanding Universal Value" and the commodification of the image of a city
No full textThe historic center of Naples has been placed in the list of the UNESCO World Heritage since 1995. Its candidature is synthetized in the record n. 726, where the area, its boundaries and its features are describes, as well as the reasons to consider it of "Outstanding Universal Value":"Naples is one of the most ancient cities in Europe, whose contemporary urban fabric preserves the elements of its long and eventful history. Its street pattern, its wealth of historic buildings from many periods, and its setting on the Bay of Naples give it an outstanding universal value without parallel, and one that has had a profound influence in many parts of Europe and beyond"
Il paesaggio senza mappa
No full textIl paesaggio è uno degli oggetti più attraenti per i cartografi o più in generale per chi aneli a rappresentarlo su una mappa geografica, ma contiene nella sua natura la condizione quasi ontologica della propria inafferrabilità in termini di “mappabile”
A kaleidoscope on ordinary landscapes: the perception of the landscape between complexity of meaning and operating reduction.
Full text linkThis research has started from some issues affecting the debate in progress on policies for landscape and confronts itself with the actuality of a review of some paradigms of interpretation that could substantiate the practice of landscape transformation.
The main questions that will be addressed is what the ordinary contemporary landscape is, experimenting the perception as a tool at first of interpretation, therefore potentially operating, from the demands of the European Landscape Convention, according to which “Landscape means an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors”.
Assuming the landscape perception as a means of expression of the relationship between society and territory, this study develops and tests a methodology for its comprehension, through kaleidoscopic visions which interpret the variety of the situated looks.
By means of the methodology we aim to explore how a variety of people experience landscapes and – as a consequence - how they perceive them. The proposed approach refers to the landscape perception as a complex system in its multiple dimensions (physical/natural, symbolic/cultural, personal/ collective) that becomes significant as expression of a contemporary condition of living places. It begets a thinking material to understand values and themes, on which could be possible basing actions and policies for landscape.
The Kaleidoscope, which is here proposed as device to represent perceived landscapes, derives from the sense of this research. Actually, the explicit reference to ordinary landscapes implies the awareness that the contemporary landscape can not be understood through a tale made of synthetic and mimetic/typological representations, but is expressed predominantly in ordinary contexts, whose not consolidated images neither shared attributions of meanings exist.
The Kaleidoscope has set as a composition of diagrams and narratives, which are translated in looks type and themes for action, contributing to reify the problems the landscape poses as challenges to planning and the perception is offering to return.
The research is substantiated by a long experimental stage, when - through an experience of understanding the perceived landscape in a valley place in Trentino - the themes tackled in the theoretical-critical part pit themselves strength the realm of a contemporary landscapes and the specificity of the ordinary ones, which more than others claim the experimentation of interpretative and operational tools.
The experience has been set up as a cognitive practice, able to be consolidated and repeatable in the ordinary planning processes. It can therefore be understood as a paradigmatic experience of approach to contemporary landscape
Constantly evoked but under-researched: the conundrum of vertical stratification in Naples
No full textFor centuries Naples has been renowned as a dense, high-rise and socially promiscuous city. Focusing on the city’s vast historic centre, the chapter charts the history of vertical stratification – a residential pattern characterized by the coexistence of different social groups in the same buildings – and considers the ways in which this was problematized during the post-war era as a sign of the city’s backwardness. The second part examines how vertical stratification has been reconfigured over the last forty years by processes such as international migration, regeneration and tourism and considers how the recent rise of a short-term rental market has transformed previously undesirable dwellings into attractive investment opportunities, thus threatening to accelerate the displacement of vulnerable local residents
Retoriche urbane/Urban rhetorics
No full textThe issue aims to explore the lexicon (ab) used in the urban policies' definition, both in governmental and in popular speeches, both in the so-called "territorial marketing” and, increasingly, in academic symposia and scientific publications.
Several models, ideologies and visions of the city are translated into words that now occur regularly in the speeches that accompany urban policy, often bouncing in different contexts, with the risk to lose, forget or distort their original meaning.
Words such as participation, sustainability, creativity, integration, multiculturalism, security, transparency, marketing, gentrification - just to name a few - now belong to common discourses and everyday language.
Some of these words have become part of the urban culture, after a long and complex process of affirmation. They are the result of a conceptual definition, not rarely deriving from political negotiations and dispute practices, inevitably located in specific historical and geographical contexts. Today many of these words resonate in many different cities and countries, which nevertheless experience the same processes of transformation dictated by global mechanisms (and by the widespread neo-liberalism). At the same time, these words are used by a number of actors - institutions, professionals, associations and protest’s movements - causing a dangerous ambiguity of meaning.
Calling to reflect on this issue, we would like to invite the authors to read some cases of urban rhetoric, linked to specific events or case studies, that can be understood through the manner in which a word has been subjected by a rhetoric abuse, becoming slogans to convey ambiguous values and dubious urban policies. Furthermore, we aim to understand how the use of certain concepts - which also symbolise certain process and phenomena has come to an imposition of the analysis categories and the action tools, often flattening the diversity of the local contexts by means of an homologation/a standardization? in which allows you to locate a number of recurrent pathways, in the urban development in many cities, both in Europe and outside Europe.
Within this question, the authors are invited to a broad exploration, which may contribute to a critical update of the urban glossary in common. In facts, we intend to reflect not only about the conflicts that such words underlie and flatten, but also about the different use of the same language, depending on the historical and political phase where the studied realities are going through
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