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L’enunciazione infantile ne "Il prete bello" di Goffredo Parise. Indagini su una poetica d’autore
No full textIl discorso del narratore de "Il prete bello" è ambiguamente sospeso fra punto di vista infantile e punto di vista adulto, fra rozzezza popolana e stile letterario compiuto. Nelle note bio-bibliografiche curate da Mauro Portello si evidenzia come questa ambiguità sia fortemente voluta dall’autore il quale è convinto di trovare, nel punto di vista infantile, la matrice autentica della sua poetica. L'analisi semiotica di alcuni brani, e in particolare del finale, evidenzia invece come, nell'opera, il bambino Parise rimane, con tutte le sue sofferenze e le sue fragilità, ma l’autore Parise, adulto, consapevole e suo malgrado raffinato letterato, ha saldamente in mano le redini dell'enunciazione del romanzo
Conversations with Cabrera: Mauro Guillén
No full textPresented online January 26, 2021, 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.Conversations with Cabrera are unscripted and informal, unearthing leadership’s thinking behind the big ideas taking shape across the Institute and trends likely to define our future. This video series is meant to capture candid conversations between President Ángel Cabrera and thought leaders across Georgia Tech and beyond.Ángel Cabrera, President, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.Mauro Guillén, Zandman Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Penn Lauder Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER).Runtime: 56:53 minutesPresident Ángel Cabrera in conversation with author and educator Mauro Guillén. They discuss the themes of Guillén's book, 2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything. Mauro Guillén’s bestselling book 2030 is both a remarkable guide to the coming changes and an exercise in the power of “lateral thinking,” thereby revolutionizing the way you think about cataclysmic change and its consequences
No Europe without Brussels: The Berlaymont Building and the Development of the Léopold Area
No full textEurope and Brussels had a mutual dependency from the founding of the European Communities. This article explores the historic relation between local urban and the transnational development of post-war Europe. It ultimately raises the question to what extent there exists a dialogue between various actors involved to actively design and build the image of Europe in Brussels.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care. Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.History, Form & Aesthetic
Le emozioni suscitate dall'inglese come lingua franca nella comunicazione dei prodotti di lusso "made in Puglia": l'influenza del contesto culturale
No full textRecent studies have cast light on how companies communicate in an international context using English as a “Lingua Franca” (ELF – English as a Lingua Franca). The use of English in the marketing strategy of advertising campaigns is based on the assumption that ELF has the status of a “neutral language” and of a “non culturally-marked” communication tool. Despite these beliefs, ELF can be considered as a means of communicating the speakers’ cultures. This chapter aims to identify the different emotions triggered by ELF in the marketing communication of “Made in Puglia” luxury products in different cultural contexts. In particular, it highlights how in high-context (vs. low) cultures, ELF communication of luxury brands triggers an emotional response of high (vs. low) intensity producing, in addition, a high intensity of external (vs. internal) emotions
Between La Tendenza and Neoliberty: Mauro Baracco Goes to Australia
No full textDiscussion of various relationships between Italian postmodern architecture (including works by Aldo Rossi, Gianni Braghieri and Gabetti&Isola), Australian postmodern architecture (including Edmond&Corrigan and Robin Boyd among others), and theoretical and design approach undertaken by the author (Mauro Baracco) as both a practitioner (director of Baracco+Wright Architects, Melbourne) and an academic (Associate Professor in Architecture and Urban Design, RMIT University, Melbourne)
Urban poverty and the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic : evidence from American cities
No full textThis article investigates empirically whether urban poverty in American cities has affected the spread of COVID-19 at the early onset of the pandemic and whether such an effect was mitigated or amplified by mobility restriction policies. Using ACS data combined with data on mobility and confirmed cases, and after addressing bias arising from measurement error and unobserved confounders, we find that an increase in urban poverty is associated with a rise in COVID-19 cases. Stay-at-home orders are found to be ineffective and instead reinforce the speed of contagion in cities where poverty is less evenly distributed across neighborhoods
Understanding trends and drivers of urban poverty in American cities
No full textUrban poverty arises from the uneven distribution of poor populations across neighborhoods of a city. We study the trend and drivers of urban poverty across American cities over the last 40 years. To do so, we resort to a family of urban poverty indices that account for features of incidence, distribution, and segregation of poverty across census tracts. Compared to the universally-adopted concentrated poverty index, these measures have a solid normative background. We use tract-level data to assess the extent to which demographics, housing, education, employment, and income distribution affect levels and changes in urban poverty. A decomposition study allows to single out the effect of changes in the distribution of these variables across cities from changes in their correlation with urban poverty. We find that demographics and income distribution have a substantial role in explaining urban poverty patterns, whereas the same effects remarkably differ when using the concentrated poverty indices
Social hotspots mapping: a participatory approach for identifying cultural ecosystem services of forests
No full textThe paper presents a methodology to identify and map Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) of forests and semi-natural areas. The quantification of CES represents a complicated task in the framework of ecosystem service evaluation. Compared to traditional investigations on the topic, we support the idea that the enhancement of CES knowledge is closely linked to the involvement of society on the role of recreational, spiritual and symbolic services of the natural resources. The mapping CES could therefore be functional for a planning and management activity accompanied by an increase in local communities' awareness of the resources present in the territory. Thus, we proposed a participatory webGIS approach at the national level (Italy) to obtain people's preferences on the favourite natural places, spatializing the results by the use of weighted Kernel density.
Regarding people’s preferences for outdoor recreational activities and ecotourism in forests and semi-natural areas, the most valued activities are observation of nature, walking or running, journey by car and picnic/BBQ, which tends, by widening the radius of choice, to diversify in favour of various types of sports/activities related to the sea or the mountain. Our results show that on average 45% of CES areas fall back outside Nature 2000 network, suggesting a deeper understanding in the use and appreciation of different types of natural areas for different needs and moods. Indeed, among the outputs, social hotspot of CES areas are stressed, quantifying not only the recreational component, but also the other components that make up CES.
This research carries major implications for policy at different levels of governance, as it makes possible to target policy instruments so that cultural dimensions are adequately considered
Wildlife Agriculture Interactions, Spatial Analysis and Trade-Off Between Environmental Sustainability and Risk of Economic Damage
No full textOver the last few years, wildlife damages to the agricultural sector have shown an increasing trend at the global scale. Fragile rural areas are more likely to suffer because marginal lands, which have little potential for profit, are being increasingly abandoned. Moreover, public administrations have difficulties to meet the growing requests for crop damage compensations. There is therefore a need to identify appropriate measures to control this growing trend. The specific aim of this research is to understand this phenomenon and define specific and effective action tools. In particular, the proposed research involves different steps that start from the historic analysis of damages and result in the mapping of risk levels using different tests (ANOVA, PCA and spatial correlation) and spatial models (MCE-OWA). The subsequent possibility to cluster risk results ensures greater effectiveness of public actions. The results obtained and the statistical consistency of applied parameters ensure the strength of the analysis and of costeffectiveness
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SUB-REGIONAL DISPARITIES: AN INTEGRATED AND DYNAMIC MODEL FOR ASSESSING QUALITY OF LIFE INEQUALITY
No full textRecently, the quality of life (QoL) has become a commonly used concept with a growing significance also in the local development policies. However, there is no sufficient attention to the QoL framework at local level. Thus, starting from the assumption that a reduction in local disparities may also favour an increase in the regional performance compared to other non-regional contexts, we propose an integrate and dynamic model able to monitor QoL components in order to assess sub-regional disparities. The model was applied to the Basilicata region, a lagging rural region of South of Italy. A dashboard of indicators within 10 QoL domains was identified, considering two periods (2001 and 2011), by applying a non-compensatory aggregation method to combine them. Despite an average improvement for most of QoL components in the considered period, the results of the spatial autocorrelation analysis highlighted, in most cases, a clustered distribution, with the tendency of clusters to generate a carry-over effect (both in positive and negative) on the neighbouring municipalities. About 32-33% of municipalities tends to move from moderate to high advantage condition, while municipalities in a risk condition tend to move on to a moderate disadvantage condition. It follows that significantly deficient QoL components, acting synergistically, generate a self- reinforcing process. The proposed model, overcoming some limits related to data availability, allows an integrated knowledge and monitoring of sub-regional inequalities in order to implement target actions to smooth out them
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