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Power Stations and Petroleum Heritage in Italy
No full textCombining various streams of literature on marginal territories and “operational landscapes,” this chapter considers a particular type of petroleumscape, one in which oil is transformed into electricity. In the context of the current energy transition, oil-fueled power plants become outdated, while their physical structures may remain. They can be interpreted as the heritage of the future. Entering an area given little attention in urban, landscape, and architecture scholarship, Chiara Geroldi and Gloria Pessina investigate unused and underused oil-fueled thermoelectric power stations in Italy, highlighting architectural elements, flows of oil, infrastructure, and social conflict. The station this chapter discusses in the most detail, Porto Tolle, is located in the fragile portion of the Po River delta known as Polesine, which has been marked by contentious processes of development and heritagization for several decades. By recognizing the role Porto Tolle has played in the global petroleumscape and highlighting its specific historical, geographical, environmental, and sociopolitical features, the authors imagine a post-oil future for Polesine, aimed at reconciling the broken equilibrium between land, water, and oil and at overcoming harmful economic development models
Un'allegoria mistificata / A mystified allegory
No full textIn the industrial age, and particularly during the 20th century, a change of scale took place in terms of the impact of productive activities on the territory. The world, in its complex manifestation, was contaminated (Moore, 2015; Jarrrige and Le Roux, 2017). An environmental disparity remains, however, and while territories have inherited soils that are degraded, infrastructures that are potentially dangerous, the typology itself of these toxic legacies varies greatly (Keil, 2020; Pessina, 2022). So, what are the local specificities of these “negative commons” (Bennholdt-Thomsen and Mies, 2001)? How are they perceived by the various local, or even regional and national, players? How is the situation managed and transmitted as an inheritance to the future
The Brand-new Riverfront and the Historical Centre: Narratives and Open Questions in Contemporary Ahmedabad, India
No full textIn 2002, the city of Ahmedabad (India) was profoundly shaken by severe interreligious riots. Subsequent years saw deep transformations in the image of the city and the consolidation of the right-wing Hindu nationalist party in the local and supra-local political arena. This article investigates some of the spatial manifestations of an urban transformation involving the valorization of historical heritage. The article focuses in particular on the large-scale Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project, which began in 2005 and remains ongoing, and on the inclusion of the historical center of Ahmedabad in the World Heritage List in 2017. The two developments have profoundly reshaped the image of the city and its river. The article offers an analysis of the city's transformations and of the related rhetoric promoted by the local governing coalition. It highlights the city's role in shaping a vision of a global, sustainable and historic metropolis
Introduzione. Politiche, forme di gestione, spazi e manufatti per un welfare più equo e per un reale diritto di cittadinanza
No full textIntroduzione. Politiche, strumenti e soggetti per patrimoni abitativi più equi ed ecologici
No full textFragilità, rischi ambientali e presidio del territorio. Prospettive transdisciplinari a partire dalle aree interne | Fragility, environmental risks and territorial safeguard. Transdisciplinary perspectives from inner areas
No full textThis chapter deals with the topic of
Inner areas through the lens of territorial
fragilities and environmental risks in
the context of the current climate crisis.
After a brief introduction on the way in
which environmental risks are tackled
by Italian public policies, the chapter
focuses on the SNAI strategy and on
other recent policies for Inner areas. It
then investigates the attention given to
these issues by scientific research in the
fields of public policies analysis, political
ecology, environmental sociology, urban
and territorial studies. While observing
interesting crossovers among different
disciplinary fields, the chapter delves
into some transdisciplinary research on
a selection of Inner and marginal areas,
often conducted by young scholars, in
collaboration with local inhabitants,
activists and/or institutions active at
different territorial levels. The chapter is
concluded by a reflection on the future of
the SNAI and of the research on environmental
risks in Inner areas, in the context
of the Next Generation EU vast funding
programme
Nodi da sciogliere nello spazio dei flussi. Vita nei territori delle centrali elettriche del progetto Futur-e
No full textL’articolo propone di osservare alcuni territori poco indagati dagli studi urbani attraverso la lente delle centrali termoelettriche in dismissione coinvolte nel progetto Futur-e, promosso da ENEL per supportare la rigenerazione dei siti non più produttivi. Oltre ad alcune informazioni già presenti nei dossier informativi redatti per il Politecnico di Milano e qui ulteriormente elaborate, nell’articolo trova spazio una riflessione a posteriori sulla natura dei territori delle centrali, sviluppata a partire da osservazioni e appunti presi durante i sopralluoghi, e approfondita attraverso riferimenti teorici e materiale empirico. L’articolo pone infine alcuni interrogativi sul tema della memoria e sul modo in cui la conoscenza ottenuta sul campo possa essere trasformata in patrimonio per il progetto Futur-e, e non solo
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