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Innovazioni tecnologiche e qualità urbane
Full text linkl paradigma tecnologico, per il quale la tecnologia sembra sempre più orientare le scelte che spettano alla politica, ha fatto sì che il possibile diventi per definizione giusto. Uno degli effetti è l’irrilevanza della riflessione etica intorno alla costruzione di un ambiente dove l’essere umano possa abitare. La retorica sulla smart city è stata caratterizzata da una particolare attenzione per l’applicazione tecnologica, non sempre accompagnata dalla valutazione degli effetti sul vivere collettivo e sugli ambienti urbani esistenti
Planning for Accessibility and Safety. Theoretical Framework and Research Methodologies to Address People Friendly Mobility.
No full textThe volume stems from the evidence that today’s cities highly depend on mobility and deals with the inextricable link between urban and transport planning, focusing on Accessibility and Road Safety.
Accessibility planning is mainly conceived as a solution to better integrate land uses with the transport system, satisfying people's expectations to easily reach the opportunities they wish to engage in. Road Safety, that represent a significant public health and economic problem, is also highly influenced by the urban form, and should be addressed using a system-wide planning approach.
Accessibility and safety are deeply intertwined and complementary issues: accessibility should incorporate safety, to ensure that destinations are safely accessible by the users.
On the other hand, accessibility enhancing strategies can contribute to limit the exposure to road accidents risk by providing alternatives to car use to reach the desired activities.
Therefore, having in mind that when talking about accessibility and safety in mobility there are three factors that interact with each other (road users, vehicles, and the urban environment), the volume presents three possible techniques to better address accessibility and safety in our cities: opinion surveys, GIS-based accessibility maps and in-field inspections
Aeration tank and secondary clarifier as one system. in "Activated Sludge Separation Problems: Theory, Control Measures, Practical Experieces. Eds. Rossetti S., Tandoi V., Wanner J.
No full textTraditionally the activated sludge process is treated as two stage process. The first stage (aeration basin) is described in terms of biological processes while the description of the second stage concentrates on processes of biomass separation and thickening. The modern approach to the activated sludge process looks at both the biological and the separation stage as one system. The aim of this chapter is to explain the interactions between the two parts of the activated sludge system
Donne e potere. Paradossi e ambiguità di una difficile relazione
No full textAttraverso un percorso che tocca la storia, l’estetica, la filosofia e la politica, l’opera affronta il difficile e contrastato rapporto che da sempre esiste tra le donne e il potere. Contro l’antico divieto secondo il quale le donne non devono invadere la sfera pubblica e non sono autorizzate ad esercitare le competenze politiche, artistiche e conoscitive, il volume analizza figure femminili che, anticipando e/o assecondando le conquiste del più recente femminismo, hanno mostrato grande abilità nello sfidare questo pregiudizio (Eleonora d’Aragona, la regina Didone, le donne della famiglia Murat, nella sfera politica; Frida Kahlo in quella artistica) e grande acume intellettuale nel mettere in discussione le forme stesse di esercizio tradizionale del potere pubblico (Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, Carla Lonzi, Anne-Marie Slaughter)
FLUID MECHANICS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL PRESSURE: ARCHITECTURAL ANALYSIS OF SEQUENTIAL SPACES AND EFFECTS ON HUMAN PERCEPTION THROUGH A CFD CODE
No full textThe psychological pressure, a quality of the surrounding space, is comparable to the pressure
that, in a fluid in motion, varies depending on obstacles which meets. The variability of
dynamic pressure along a path influences the difference of psychological pressure given by a
sequence of spaces having different qualities. By analyzing the perceptions of representative
sample, It is possible to get to the formulation of the equation of psychological well-being,
which spells out an index on the average value of psychological feeling of votes cast by a
representative sample of people in reference to a volumetric scale of values. This research
highlights the relationship between the psychological warnings generated by a sequence of
architectural spaces and the psychological response given by users; and clarifies, by a finite
differences code, the relationship between the dynamic pressure, objective variable, with the
psychological feeling, subjective variable, expressed by the users of that architecture
Suburban Collective Transit and Land Use: a methodological approach
No full textIn the context of sustainable mobility great attention should be paid not only to urban mobility issues but also to suburban and interurban travels: an efficient collective transit service may represent an alternative to cars for these types of movements. Integrated approaches gathering urban planning and transport management can help in lowering individualized traffic volumes and in increasing collective transit usage. An assessment of the existing transit network and of its catchment areas may be a first step to investigate the relationship between the demand and the supply of collective transit facilities: a focus on land uses can help in providing this first as-sessment.
How can accessibility to collective transit be evaluated? Is it possible to link the suburban collective passenger transit network with land uses, in order to analyse the spatial efficiency of bus stops? The present paper aims at linking the location of existing bus stops with the sur-rounding land uses, with a focus on the case study of the Province of Brescia, which is one of the most dynamic realities of northern Italy. Using a land use geographical database it is possible to select land uses which, more than others, are able to attract or to generate potential transit users: residential units, public (and of public interest) facilities and productive in-frastructures. The area served by the transit service can be estimated as the surface that people can reach from each stop by walking. To a first approximation, an influence radius of 450 m, corresponding to a walking distance of about 10 minutes from each stop, may be chosen and mapped using a GIS software. Then the assessment can be performed calculating the proportion of different land uses covered by the transit service (and by difference the proportion of land uses that are at the moment not served by transit facilities). Furthermore, through an observation of the less covered catchment areas it is possible to detect the less useful bus stops, which in case of a reorganization of the lines may be taken off without generating disa-greements.
The paper doesn’t represent an exhaustive overview of all the accessibility issues related to collective transit but may be seen as a starting point from which further analysis can be developed
Sea organ & Greeting to the sun. Zadar: an architectural experience "in between"
No full textSea Organ and Greeting to the Sun are two projects developed by Nikola Basic in Zadar (Croatia). His research is finding a new way to promote the inactive and marginal space of the historic core of the city and change its urban identity. The project transforms the site in an essential place of everyday life, a key point where people can meet, socialize and relax. We should not become victims of the unlimited possibilities of technology; we can use it in a project of contemporary architecture. The architect re-interpret human living needs and uses of space, but also does it by finding a satisfactory relation with nature. Sometimes the effort produces unexpected results like a visionary project. This public urban space is playful and essentially and it works with the waves of the sea and the solar energy producing a stage enlivened from the sounds, the sights and the images. This project works on the boundary between the land and the water, but also between concreteness and emotional, and it translates the matters of the measure and of the architectural form in the language of the music and of the rhythm, generated from the natural elements
Case study on city-airports: Datasets and calculation models
Full text linkData have been collected over time, belonging the 2018th and 2019th, from airports owners, from stakeholders, from universities, from the net, and performing under GIS evaluation processes. Most of the collected data are geographic, economic, and financial statements of the different ownerships, maps about the airport and urban planning, and data about carriers and routes. Specifically, the GIS has been useful to the Network Analysis evaluations. The analysis results can be collected and used in the most comprehensive analysis of similar systems. The results summarize data about four different couples of small remote airports in the EU and their specific network systems [1–4]. Therefore, the ongoing analysis wait to be extended to other similar systems
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