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Premio "Scrivilfuturo". Sistema di monitoraggio e valutazione delle imprese edili per lo sviluppo di un turismo sostenibile
No full textResilience of the Mediterrean Cities. An opportunity for innovative planning strategies
No full textAccording to the definition of urban resilience as the ability “to tolerate alteration before reorganizing around a new set of structures and processes" and “ to adjust in the face of uncertainty and surprise (...) to capitalize on positive opportunities the future may bring" (Resilience Alliance, 2007), the paper presents the first outcomes of the study concerning the way of analysing resilience in historical cities, focusing on the interactions between urban form and the management of city’s metabolic flows (people, energy, waste)
Smart working, an opportunity for triggering building recovery processes and reducing territorial inequalities?/ Smart working, un’opportunità per attivare processi di recupero dell’ambiente costruito e ridurre le disuguaglianze territoriali?
No full textThe paper examines the relationship between social innovation and territorial development in marginalised Italian areas affected by depopulation, ageing, and the abandonment of built heritage. While urban centres continue to attract young people seeking employment and personal growth, the COVID-19 pandemic facilitated a temporary trend reversal through remote working, encouraging some workers to return to their places of origin. This return, coupled with initiatives like the "South working®" network, demonstrates the potential for territorial regeneration by fostering collaborative and innovative uses of underused spaces. The study focuses on how smart working and bottom-up initiatives contribute to local development by enhancing social cohesion, reusing abandoned spaces, and creating new economic opportunities. The paper proposes a research agenda aimed at evaluating the long-term impact of these initiatives on the regeneration of marginalised areas, asking whether they primarily involve space reuse or also activate processes of human resource enhancement, skills development, and local regeneration
Facing the global crisis in the city and by the city through European joint research: urban planning and design for local development
No full textCity is the place where global crisis effect manifests itself in the hardest mode. At the same time
city is the main resource that we have to face the crisis.
European situation is different, on the one hand, in rich Countries as Germany and United Kingdom and, on the other hand, in Countries as Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy that are facing
socio-economic troubles. But in all these Countries the city is the junction to pass from the crisis towards the economic and socio-cultural restart.
Urban research context is becoming more and more complex because the global crisis has had a strong impact also at local level and at the urban scale. We should apply the sustainability motto “thinking global and acting local” to combat against economic, social and environmental crisis.
Urban planning and design can help re-development strategies and cities could favour the economic growth through renovation of spaces and functions.
Research activities should define approaches and methodologies to develop economy and meantime to contrast social distress and spatial segregation. We must face lost of identity and semantic weakness, we should promote cultural variety and richness.
Europe 2020 is the UE strategy for re-launch productivity and society. It has five objective: employment, innovation, education, social inclusion and climate/energy. JPI Urban propose to carry out the strategy through innovation and technology, sustainable mobility, social cohesion and integration, ecological footprint reduction.
JPI Urban topics should be integrated by cultural variety as semantic resource for architectural language, urban places identity, urban space and functions recovery, land vocation.
The state of the art sometimes reveals an attitude of ideological foreclosure toward the economic dimension of sustainability. Especially in Italy, there is a strong focus on environmental and social factors and a partial detachment of architectural and planning research toward the more strictly economic factors. It isn’t pursued the balanced application of the sustainability principles in three dimensions: environmental, social and economic.
Loss of identity in urban spaces, impoverishment of architectural language, semantic loss of urban spaces, social and cultural exclusion, spatial segregation are the problems to be solved. The innovative methods should answer to the demand of city and architecture that urban communities pose, in the current global crisis. The phases are analysis, interpretation, decision support and proposals for action. In this perspective, the role of all stakeholders and actors in the area acquires special importance.
In conclusion research should define new possible intervention strategies for adapting the urban spaces and functions to the new scenario and new requirements, to enhance competitiveness
Planning for local development through the valorization of Cultural Heritage: the Master Plan for the Stupinigi Royal Palace and Park (Nichelino, Turin)
No full textThe paper presents the project experience of the Master Plan of Nichelino Municipality as a spatial and functional planning application for Southern Turin Region. It is an original design proposal for the urban form and landscape development, integrating the Park and the Royal Palace of Stupinigi in the management of social, economic and environmental resources at regional and local level. Starting from this, the paper aims at discussing the relevance of the cultural attractors as a key resource for more sustainable territorial structure.
The project proposal for Stupinigi Royal Palace and Park enhances existing buildings and public spaces for generating cultural, social and economic benefits for the Municipality of Nichelino in a period of recession and industrial crisis.
The valorization of cultural heritage can represent a key tool for local development if it is able to strengthen the site identity, enhancing environmental potential and attracting new investors – promoting a new economic profitability and increasing new vocations of the territory
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Seeing the world anew : the radical vision of Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 & 1516 world maps /
No full text9781929154470 (ISBN). 192915447X (ISBN). First edition 2012. Accompanied by 2 foldeds map in front and back pockets: 1507 map -- 1516 map.; Includes bibliographical references: pages 98-107.; Maps from pockets also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-vn6254227; Original version of the 1507 map: Universalis cosmographiae secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii alioru que lustrationes. [St. Dié, France? : s.n., 1507]; Original version of the 1516 map: Carta marina, navigatoria Portugallen, navigationes atque tocius cogniti orbis terre marisque formam naturamq[u]e situs et terminos nostris temporibus recognitos et ab antiquorum traditione differentes eciam quor[um] vetusti non meminerunt auctores hec generaliter indicat / consumatum est in oppido S. Deodati compositione et digestione Martini Waldseemuller Ilacomili. [St. Dié, France? : s.n., 1516]. Prologue: In a Renaissance Vision, a Glimpse of the Modern / John W. Hessler -- "An island surrounded on all sides by sea" : The World Map, 1507 / John W. Hessler -- "Land of Cuba, part of Asia" : The Carta marina, 1516 / Chet Van Duzer -- Epilogue: A Renaissance That Resonates Still / John W. Hessler -- Notes -- Afterword / Ralph E. Ehrenberg -- About the authors -- Acknowledgments -- The Maps: The 1507 World Map, 12 sheets, with commentary -- Composite: front pocket -- The 1516 Carta marina, 13 sheets, with commentary -- Composite: back pocket
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe 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
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