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Incentive for Sale: § 503(c) and Asset Sales Within the Southern District of New York
No full textThis Note examines the recent shift towards rejecting proposed Key Employee Incentive Plans within the Southern District of New York as highlighted by the Hawker and Residential Capital decisions, and why the current standard is inadequate to address the special concerns that arose in those two cases. Scavone first examines the historical basis for executive compensation in bankruptcy, the formulation of the 2005 BAPCPA amendments, and the cases that followed. Scavone then presents the Hawker and Residential Capital cases, followed by an analysis of why the application of § 503(c) as it currently stands was inadequate for the proposed asset sales presented in those cases. Scavone argues for adjustments to § 503(c) that better reflect the unique circumstances of those two cases
Strategy to re-active an urban landscape
No full textTo re-activate an urban landscape, through a complex system of relationships, needs a goal: trigger a course of identification based on cultural heritage like an “ID card”. To do this, without losing the historical common memory, culture doesn’t have to be only for the “elite” but has to begin the raw nerve of the development.
When Kevin Lynch wrote about wayfinding, it was not for tourists but for inhabitants whom daily live in that place: the field of “orientation” was essential for him like it was for Camillo Sitte. This theorist of urban planning (not fully understood) said that “the space and the city are important if they are active” and Wieczorek explains that “active” means the rule of the spectator in the perception process.
Recently, the experience of study, design and realization of Wayfinding Agrigento, has a aim: a local sustainable development that causes Agrigento to be a creative city, to re-start from its own identity, from its abandoned places, from its neglected architectures, from the difficult orography that characterizes its urban pattern. This project guides urban users throughout Girgenti (the historical center of Agrigento), into a slow rhythm of life, to stand out to the urban patterned identity, in a social progress of discovering and rediscovering of the historical heritage.
The suggested paths are connected with a website that can also analyze city users’ movements in the historical center to plan services and public urban “gears” for the community.
Girgenti starts to begin a real living organism that communicates and interacts with its urban users, reacts and dialogues with them, produces knowledge and triggers its regeneration
Arginare il consumo di suolo: centri commerciali e programmazione urbanistica
No full textLa distinzione tra spazio pubblico e ad uso pubblico porta gli Amministratori a ‘subire’ l’edificazione di grandi centri commerciali, come nel caso in esame, invece di focalizzare altrimenti le energie per il miglioramento della qualità di vita degli abitanti.
Innescare un meccanismo di rilancio economico diventa uno dei tanti ‘alibi’ per costruire, per cementificare, per consumare suolo, per distruggere gli ultimi lembi di territorio agricolo, senza alcuna attenzione alle reali esigenze della comunità, senza alcuna programmazione urbanistica
THE DEVELOPMENT AND FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY OF A TOURIST NETWORK FOR A COASTAL REGION
No full textThis study springs from a reflection on the concept of the Slow Network as a tool to strengthen the connection between a territory and its inhabitants, through the rediscovery of the agro-environmental, landscape, historical, artistic, and cultural value of each territory. Creating a slow network means utilising slow mean of mobility thus creating a "greenway" to give life to an ecomuseum and to cultural tourism in an eco-sustainable manner. The
resources of an area are enhanced by creating a synergy between them, the tourism industry, and the local economy, which is dedicated to the promotion of an integrated tourism that involves rural areas, natural areas, eno gastronomic tours, and thematic routes, according to the logic of self-sustainable development.
In order to investigate the financial sustainability of Slow Networks, an ex-ante pre-financing cash flow analysis of a part of a project has been developed
Aspects and problems of changing economic utilization of the land in Italy and the corresponding soil consumption
No full textThe study moves from the observation that, in the last fifty years (1961-2010) the territory of our country, like those of other countries with advanced economies, has undergone extensive economic processes of change in the use of land, mostly due to a strong reduction of Agricultural Area Use (AAU), whose consistency - on the basis of official statistics (National Statistics Institute) and, in particular, the results of the General Census of Agriculture - is estimated at around 7,8 million hectares, from 20, 7 million hectares in 1961 to 12,9 million in 2010. It should be noted in fact that the intensity of the processes of reduction of the UAA was much greater in the first three decades, compared to subsequent of entire period, in which there has been a growing flowering of studies and research on the subject, aimed to analyze causes, modes and effects of the change in the economic use of the land with reference to agriculture, to rural world and the entire socio-economic system
Food and religion in Sicily: new green tourist destination by an ancient route from the past.
No full textThe Francigena Way (Via Francigena) is a long international itinerary that was awarded recognition as a Culture Route of the Council of Europe. It starts in Canterbury (UK), touches 13 European regions and ends in Rome. An ancient track of this route is in Sicily (Southern Italy), and its name is Magna Via Francigena (Great Francigena Way). This track is a pilgrimage route that con-nects two ancient port cities, Palermo and Agrigento, passing through internal rural territories that now deal with the exodus of population from rural to urban areas. The route passes through the Sicilian territory named “Upper-Belìce corleonese”, a rural area around the city of Corleone (a little village known worldwide for the sad Mafia events) that includes a number of municipalities. In the past, this religious pilgrimage was a fundamental part of the expression of faith for Christians and now still represents for Sicilians a strong symbol of Christian identity. In recent decades, pilgrimage tourism around the world has grown significantly each year. The aim of the study is to know the pilgrims’ motivations for choosing the Magna Via Francigena pilgrimage as a vacation and any pos-sible similarities between pilgrimage tourism and food and wine tourism, in the wider context of sustainable and slow tourism. The Policy Delphi method was applied to collect the opinions of the stakeholders involved. The study highlighted the strong link between religious motivations and local enogastronomy, culture, art and nature. Results will support policy-making in the development of integrated territorial tourist marketing strategies
Magnetic resonance imaging in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) type I. Volumetric assessment of kidney cysts after 24 months of treatment with rapamycin
No full textStrengths, weaknesses and future challenges of biosimilars’ development. An opinion on how to improve the knowledge and use of biosimilars in clinical practice
No full textInfluenza della natura dei nutrienti azotati sull’attività di due ceppi di lievito nella vinificazione di uve bianche prodotte in Sicilia
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