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I luoghi dell’urbanistica e dell’architettura di Adriano Olivetti
No full textIl Testo discute il rapporto di Adriano Olivetti con l'architettura e l'urbanistica prendendo in esame esperienze e ruoli nei quali il rapporto è più evidente, dove sembra condensarsi l'"amore"di Olivetti per queste aree disciplinari, e su cui si sono addensati diversi contributi critici: il Piano territoriale per la Val d'Aosta, il piano per Ivrea e il Canavese, la presidenza dell'Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica-INU
La città selvatica. Paesaggi urbani contemporanei
No full textEcosistemi selvatici e porzioni di natura brada sono sempre più frequenti nelle città europee contemporanee. Avanzano gli incolti, spesso abitati da animali e insetti 'minacciosi'. Si diffondono piante 'invasive', che turbano il nostro sovranismo etnobotanico. Fitti brani di giungla prendono possesso dei parchi, così come dei tetti e delle facciate degli edifici più alla moda. Le città tendono a inselvatichirsi per le ragioni più diverse. Talvolta accade per effetto della latitanza di cura e progetto. Talvolta è invece per intenzione e lo spazio urbano diventa il campo di un rapporto tendenzialmente più mutualistico tra le società post-industriali e ciò che ci si ostina a chiamare 'natura'. In questo scenario, il progetto ricorre al selvatico per rigenerare aree in abbandono, progettare infrastrutture sostenibili, rivitalizzare spazi pubblici di pregio, migliorare l'impronta ecologica di nuovi insediamenti, suggerire nuove pratiche e rituali sociali, contrastare il cambiamento climatico, soddisfare il 'desiderio di natura' degli abitanti, sostenere campagne di marketing nel mercato urbano globale. Questo libro raccoglie indizi per interpretare il rapporto tra selvatico e città contemporanea in una prospettiva critica. Da un lato, esplora il valore proattivo dei paesaggi selvatici per migliorare la qualità urbana; dall'altro, si interroga sui rischi del selvatico come strumento di pratiche e politiche di verdolatria consensuale a buon mercato. L'intento è offrirne una lettura operante a più voci e con diversi orientamenti, che trova nei termini della relazione inquieta tra città e natura il proprio fondamento. Contributi di Eleonora Ambrosio, Paolo Camilletti, Gianni Celestini, Daniela Colafranceschi, Isotta Cortesi, Fabio Di Carlo, Andrea Filpa, Teresa Galì-Izard, Mathieu Gontier, Annalisa Metta, Luca Molinari, Lucia Nucci, Maria Livia Olivetti, Franco Panzini, Gabriele Paolinelli, Laura Zampieri
Combining negation as failure and embedded implications in logic programs
No full textAbstractIn this paper we consider a language which combines embedded hypothetical implications and negation as failure (NAF). For this language we develop a top-down query evaluation procedure, a Kripke/Kleene fixed point semantics, and a logical interpretation by means of a completion construction. As a difference with respect to other proposals, we put no restriction on the occurrences of negation by failure; in particular, programs are not required to be stratified. The operational semantics we propose is an extension to our language of Stärk's ESLDNF, and allows negative non-ground literals to be selected in a query. The fixed point semantics is a generalization of those developed by Fitting and Kunen for flat logic programs and makes use of Kleene strong three-valued logic. The completion of a program is a recursive theory interpreted in a three-valued modal logic. We prove soundness and completeness of the operational semantics with respect to both the fixed point semantics and the completion. While soundness results require no restriction, completeness results are limited by the possibility of floundering. Similarly to Stärk, we prove completeness for the class of so-called ϵ-queries, which are not subjected to floundering. Since the property of being an ϵ-query is undecidable, we give a syntactical decidable condition which ensures this property. Such a condition is a non-trivial generalization of the usual allowedness condition for flat programs
Il pensiero formale nell’adolescente. Studio metrico della scala ECDL di Longeot-Hornemann.
No full textWild and the City. Landscape Architecture for Lush Urbanism
No full textUnspoilt ecosystems and wildlife are becoming increasingly common in contemporary European cities. Untamed lands are growing, often inhabited by animals and insects that threaten us and by invasive species that disturb our ethnobotanical souverainism, while dense pieces of jungle take possession of the parks, as well as the roofs and facades of the most fashionable buildings. Cities tend to get wild for a variety of reasons, sometimes as a result of a lack of care and design, sometimes intentionally, translating a more mutualistic relationship between post-industrial societies and what we insist on calling 'nature'. In this scenario, design uses the wild to respond to a number of different issues: regenerating abandoned areas, designing sustainable infrastructures, revitalizing valuable public spaces, improving the ecological footprint of new settlements, suggesting new practices and social rituals, fighting climate change, satisfying the inhabitants' 'desire for nature', and so on. This book offers clues to read the current relationship between Wild and City from a critical perspective. On the one hand, we explore the proactive value of wild landscapes to improve urban quality, in contemporary terms of beauty, healthiness, livability; on the other hand, we question the risks of wild as a buzzword that renews anti-urban positions or feeds practices and policies of consensual and cheap-plaudit 'greenery'. The aim is to account for the variety of readings raised by the urban wilderness, which continue to find their discriminating element in the restless relationship between city and nature. The contributors to this book include Eleonora Ambrosio, Paolo Camilletti, Gianni Celestini, Daniela Colafranceschi, Isotta Cortesi, Fabio Di Carlo, Andrea Filpa, Teresa Galì-Izard, Mathieu Gontier, Luca Molinari, Lucia Nucci, Franco Panzini, Gabriele Paolinelli, and Laura Zampieri
Correspondence: Laura Kephart and Arthur Stupka
No full textThis 1936 correspondence, between Laura Kephart (Mrs. Horace Kephart) and Arthur Stupka, concerns a possible Kephart Memorial. Horace Kephart (1862-1931) was a noted naturalist, woodsman, journalist, and author and promoter of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Arthur Stupka (1905-1999) was the first park naturalist to work at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Mindscapes: Laura Riding's poetry and poetics /
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão.Esta tese propõe uma leitura revisionista da poesia contemporânea através do exame do caso de um dos mais esquecidos escritores norte-americanos do século XX: Laura (Riding) Jackson (1901-1991). O objetivo é demonstrar que Riding não apenas possuía uma poética definida e singular, mas que ela permanece uma das instâncias mais extremas e paradoxais do modernismo anglo-americano, a ponto de Riding abandonar a escrita da poesia em 1938. Recorrendo a conceitos de "formação do cânone" bem como às noções de "discurso" e "função do autor", em Foucault, investigo a construção do cânone da poesia moderna anglo-americana, recuperando o contexto e as circunstâncias da ocultação de Riding. Enquanto cubro os "discursos" poéticos em circulação na primeira metade do século XX-o "imagismo" de Pound, a "dissociação da sensibilidade", "impersonalidade" e "tradição" de Eliot, a "unidade orgância" e "ambigüidade" da Nova Crítica-ofereço um panorama crítico de modernismos alternativos sendo articulados à época. Minha intenção é demonstrar que os poemas de Riding são expressões vigorosas de um escritor para quem "a mente pensando se torna a força ativa do poema", para usar a apta formulação de Charles Bernstein. Entre minhas descobertas sobre as várias e complexas razões que levaram à não-canonização de Riding estão a hegemonia da Nova Crítica, o exílio voluntário de Riding da cena literária (onde são feitas ou desfeitas as reputações), sua recusa em ser antologiada, bem como em ser explicada em termos críticos que não os dela. Todos esses fatores, mais a "dificuldade" de sua poesia, contribuíram para fazer de Riding "a maior poeta esquecida da poesia norte-americana", como escreveu Kenneth Rexroth. Ajudado pelos insights de dois importantes críticos de poesia norte-americana, Charles Bernstein e Marjorie Perloff, defendo que a "poesia da mente" de Riding-onde o que está em jogo é que o que pensamos ser a nossa realidade-representa uma mudança radical no paradigma da poética modernista: de uma poesia centrada na imagem para uma poesia centrada na linguagem. Focalizando a experiência consciente e o tempo duracional do pensamento presente em seus poemas, concluo que as "pensagens" de Riding têm o objetivo preciso de constatar um fato universal: enquanto seres humanos e pensantes, estamos numa condição permanente chamada linguagem
Letter, Julia Gardiner Tyler to Mrs. Laura Holloway, author of First Ladies, dated September 20, 1869
No full textALS of Julia Gardiner Tyler to Mrs. Laura Holloway, author of First Ladies, dated September 20, 1869, about interviewing other first ladies. ALS.Found in:Mss. 65 T97 Additions, Series 1: Mss. Acc. 1993.19 Addition, 186
Heritage tourism: a case study of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Heritage Site at Pepin, Wisconsin
No full textPlan BMany things must be taken into consideration when developing a heritage tourism site. It can be a wonderful opportunity for the community involved to benefit economically and historically. Heritage tourism can keep alive the heritage and traditions of the communities past. When it is discovered that a heritage site exists, the first step is to consult with the community. A site will not succeed without the acceptance and assistance from the community involved. Once the interest is known, the development process can proceed. After determining that there is a heritage tourism site possibility in their area, a commumity must do research to determine the feasibility of the site, what will make it a success, and how to obtain that success. This study will examine a community with a heritage tourism site that has been successful in developing and maintaining it's site. By conducting this study, other communities seeking information for developing their site will have an example and tool to work with. The site chosen for this study is the Laura Ingalls Wilder site in Pepin, Wisconsin. The town is rich with it's heritage associated with Laura Ingalls Wilder. The development and success for this town will be documented through this study. Laura Ingails Wilder is a perfect choice for examining heritage tourism. The author of many American Pioneer books, she has become famous all over the world. In turn all places that she or her family members lived are or are becoming heritage tourism sites. There are older ones that have been in progress for some years, such as the one in Pepin, and there are ones that are being discovered through the popularity of new books written about Laura's family. These communities would benefi greatly from the information this study will produce. Without the bene-fit of this knowledge communities who are unaccustomed to tourism or the way the other Laura Ingalls Wilder sites operate, may make terrible errors in development, tarnishing the site. This may also reflect badly on the other Laura Ingalls Wilder sites. It is important for new Wilder sites to examine all information and know exactly what they are doing when developing the site. If all the Laura Ingalls Wilder sites can benefit from each other's knowledge and experience it will greatly increase the market for all sites. The more detailed and expansive the sites are about their knowledge and sites to see, the more people are going to want to travel to as many sites as possible, learning all they can about the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family. These sites not only attract Laura Ingalls Wilder fans but all people that are interested in the American Pioneer period of the United States history. This study will provide the knowledge for communities who are developing heritage tourism sites, especially those focusing on Laura Ingalls Wilder. This is a very important study for tourism and especially heritage tourism. When a heritage site is discovered communities run into the barrier of not having the experience and knowledge to develop the site properly. This study will analyze tourism in Pepin, Wisconsin to determine it's successfulness due to the fact that it is a Laura Ingalls Wilder heritage tourism site, and Wfit was developed in a way to provide tourists with a view of Laura Ingalls Wilder's past and the past of many Pioneer Americans. By studying this subject it will allow for many people to benefit. Tourist who are seeking the pleasure of the knowledge of the past, and communities who want to preserve their past and profit from tourism
Middle Miocene out-of sequence thrusting and successive exhumation in the Peloritani Mountains, Sicily: Late stage evolution of an orogen unreveled by apatite fission track and (U-Th)/He thermochronometry
No full textApatite fission track (AFT) and (U‐Th)/He (AHe)
thermochronometry are applied to constraint the thermal
history of the basement rock forming the Peloritani
Mountains in northeast Sicily, Italy. AFT ages
range between 29.0 ± 5.5 Ma and 5.5 ± 0.9 Ma while
AHe ages vary from 19.4 Ma to 3.3 Ma. Most AFT
ages are younger than the overlying terrigenous
sequence that, in turn, postdates the main orogenic
phase. Through the coupling of the thermal modeling
with the stratigraphic record, a middle Miocene thermal
event is revealed. This event affected an innerintermediate
portion of the Peloritani Mountains and
is confined by the distribution of the AFT ages <15 Ma. The U‐shaped pattern of AFT ages along N–S transects
across the mountain chain is consistent with burial
below a thrust stack that is a few km thick, created by
an out‐of‐sequence thrusting phase that affected the
inner portion of the belt. The tectonic load was then
removed initially by erosion enhanced by the high
relief at 10–7 Ma. The difference between young
AFT and AHe ages is used to infer a rate of exhumation
of 0.3 mm/yr for this stage. The gap between the
youngest AHe ages and the sedimentary record above
indicate a final exhumation stage with increasing rates
of denudation (1–3 mm/yr) since the Pliocene times
due to extensional tectonics. Citation: Olivetti, V., M. L.
Balestrieri, C. Faccenna, F. M. Stuart, and G. Vignaroli (2010),
Middle Miocene out‐of‐sequence thrusting and successive
exhumation in the Peloritani Mountains, Sicily: Late stage
evolution of an orogen unraveled by apatite fission track and
(U‐Th)/He thermochronometry
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