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"Can urban agriculture be used to improve green infrastructure and social well-being? The urban garden in the Ponticelli neighbourhood of Naples"
No full textUrban agriculture can be used to improve green infrastructure and social wellbeing and as a tool for the sustainable regeneration of urban environments. Furthermore, urban agriculture, including urban gardening, has emerged as a means to help improve food insecurity and tackle climate change. This paper focuses on the social urban garden located in the Ponticelli neighbourood on the eastern outskirts of Naples, which has around 70,000 inhabitants. This area originally had an agricultural economy but has now undergone uncontrolled building expansion and lacks an adequate supply of services for the community. The area also suffers from significant social and cultural problems, including high unemployment, school dropout rates and crime rates, which touch a large part of the population. The urban garden of Ponticelli represents an example of how social cohesion can be built through the expansion of urban agriculture, while at the same time contributing to the goal of sustainability and maintaining links to the rural economy. Yet the urban agriculture initiative risks remaining isolated and being of limited benefit to regional and metropolitan efforts for environmental sustainability if it is not framed within an overall metropolitan strategy for an urban agriculture programme
Dal regionalismo al dualismo urbano-suburbano. Alcuni spunti di riflessione sul Mezzogiorno
No full textAbstract. The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed, in Italy, several previous critical issues, including the dichotomous relationship between State and Regions. The emergency management of the pandemic has, in fact, highlighted the contradictions between the two entities in the implementation of operational plans on a different scale. Beyond the exogenous criticalities, in the Regions there are elements of inhomogeneity, the legacy of a past history and of an unbalanced urban-suburban relationship. A dualistic relationship that cannot yet be expressed as a combination or better yet as a single holistic entity, free from any form of differentiation. In this work, a theoretical framework is proposed on the theme of the relationship between the urban nucleus and the peripheral ring, with a short reflection about Southern Italy. The study still highlights the prevalence of a dualism between the center and the periphery, enclosed, into the wider frame relative, on the upper scale, to a differentiated regionalism
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The posterior branch of the internal capsule - A pictorial essay
No full textWe studied a patient having a strong inflammatory cerebral oedema. This particular pathological situation yielded a condition of fibre dissociation of the posterior branch of the internal capsule, which allowed us to distinguish anatomically about all the components contained in this structure
Pre-operative and post-operative assessment of patient’s vascular condition and anatomy.
No full textTerritori in movimento. Occasioni, prospettive e problemi dell’armatura urbana meridionale
No full textThis paper analyzes the Southern urban framework and hierarchy in its persistence and innovations, considering it within the national and European network. Data and images draw a mosaic of different realities, in which the metropolitan areas belonging to the central cities of Naples, Palermo, Bari and Catania begin to be flanked by minor rebalancing urban poles, generally constituted by the current provincial and regional capitals. The final aim is to interpret the regularities in the growth and development model outside the metropolitan agglomerations, in the awareness that, in the future, the desired rebalancing of the Italian urban framework will not be defined only in the metropolitan context, nor will it be exhausted in the flows moving from the centrality of metropolitan areas towards the outside, but will be much more complex, multiform and articulated
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