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Emergency-proof tourism: The heritage of industrial archaeology in internal areas as a potential for a sustainable tourism
No full textChanges associated with the concept of heritage involve evolution and expansion of scope and direction. The previous heritage concept concentrated on the strict protection of nature reserves and individual monuments. Recent heritage concept has focused on the common heritage of humanity. Over the last decades, the heritage concept includes new issues of environmental protection and sustainable development.
Emergency-Proof Tourism: The Heritage of Industrial Archaeology in Internal Areas as a Potential for Sustainable Tourism aims to embrace the current Covid-19 pandemic crisis as a challenge and opportunity to activate heritage resources for sustainable tourism purposes. Emergency-proof tourism examines the heritage associated with the industrial past and development strategies. Strategies can have a direct or indirect link to tourism. Development strategies simultaneously protect heritage and transform the space and experience of people, both indigenous and visitors
Politiche e strumenti per l’abitare condiviso e collaborativo e processi di rigenerazione urbana. Il centro storico della città di Sassari
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Digital Hamlets: Innovative Methods and E-Participation Tools Supporting Policy Making at the Local Level
No full textE-participation in decision making is gaining ground. An increasing number of administrations recently tries to foster innovation processes at all levels of government, supported by EU cooperation strategies and funding. The task of the paper is to test the usefulness and opportunities coming from a mix of e-participation and “proactive” decision support tools, especially in low density residential areas and districts, affected by structural limitations in terms of accessibility, loss of population, and public services consequently. Here, participation can play an important role in the user-centred design of public spaces.
The authors present an overview of the work-in-progress on an experience of policymaking in a low density residential rural area, in order to ensure self-sustainability through a series of methods and tools to encourage participation and identifying consistent and low cost policy choices for administrations. We conclude that, far from the technology-based smart city paradigm, this bottom-up approach to innovative practices for e-participation is extremely useful since it provides an administration with a simple, immediate and free use of a pool of ideas and proposals previously unimaginable. On the other hand, e-participation tools can support administrations to better and cheaply organize a number of basic services and facilities in rural areas and foster citizens and visitors to define new input and projects for small communities
The Capability Approach in Urban Quality of Life and Urban Policies: Towards a Conceptual Framework
No full textImproving urban quality of life is often stated as the main goal of urban policies, planning and management. However, there is no wide consensus on the theoretical and methodological framework that should be used to operatively define the concept of urban quality of life, so as to be useful for developing operational tools to measure it and for the evaluation of urban projects, plans and policies. We consider the capability approach an effective candidate for providing the kind of theoretical and methodological grounding necessary for the design of such tools. According to this theoretical perspective, individual wellbeing is not defined in terms of endowment of commodities, but rather in relation to a person’s capability ‘to function’. This means we must look at what a person actually is and does (functionings) and what they are effectively able to be and do (capabilities), given both their personal characteristics and their surrounding environment. We can therefore say that in the capability approach, the achievement of wellbeing is a process of interaction between the individual and their surrounding environment. Putting these ideas consistently to work in the design of tools for measuring urban quality of life means to evaluate urban quality of life on the basis of the actual possibilities each person has to ‘use’ the city in order to achieve functionings and capabilities, rather than just observing urban features
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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Capability-wise walkability evaluation as an indicator of urban peripherality
Full text linkUrban peripherality is a multidimensional phenomenon, requiring operational tools for analysis and policy design. In this paper, we explore if and how the concept of walkability can be employed as an indicator of peripherality. For this purpose, we employ the capability-wise walkability score (CAWS) to assess neighbourhoods of two case study cities to classify them into four classes (periphery, semi-periphery, semi-core, core). In comparing neighbourhoods on both walkability and a set of neighbourhood-level socioeconomic variables, we argue that walkability should be incorporated as part of a comprehensive framework for the analysis of processes of peripherilisation, since walkability should be seen as one relevant factor of urban capabilities, and hence the lack thereof fits into the definition of urban periphery
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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