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Strategic management of sustainable urban development. Economic downturns, metropolitan governance and local communities
No full textThe present work introduces a novel interpretation of the intimate rela-
tionship between urban studies and strategic public governance, for devel-
opment and management of complex socioeconomic and environmental
systems. The linkage between management and other areas of scientific
knowledge finds fertile ground in the tradition of the Italian school of
business administration, founded by Gino Zappa. This scholar had taken
up the vision of the American institutional economics (Veblen, North,
and above all, Commons), suggesting a “broad” approach to the study
of management and business issues. The basic idea, which the present
work has taken as its inspiration, is that the facts should be considered
starting from the effective reality, to achieve operational solutions in the
light of specific drivers of time, location, and environment. In fact, unlike
the pure economist, the managerial economist brings his “operational”
vocation to scientific research, to solve practical problems. In this frame-
work, the investigation method that the founder has taken as the basis
for our subject is a methodology that sees the business sciences as a
research space on which including the decisive contribution from other sci-
ences, to find integrated and effective solutions to complex socioeconomic
problems
Il liber Belial e il processo romano-canonico in Europa tra XV e XVI secolo con l'edizione in volgare italiano (Venezia 1544) trascritta e annotata,
No full textThe Liber Belial (or Consolatio peccatorum), written in 1382 Giacomo Palladino (1349-1417) alias Jacopo from Teramo - that in his brilliant career was also bishop of Taranto - was one of the books most translated and printed in Europe between the fifteenth and sixteenth century. The author imagines that the devils, after the descent of Jesus into Hell and the liberation of the souls of the Patriarchs, bring a lawsuit against Jesus Christ and give proxy to Belial. The process that follows is described in all its phases in a context of political and theological allegories (was in progress the great schism of the West). Despite the obvious content of legal interest the Liber Belial isn’t studied so much perhaps for its recognized extravagance. This book, edited by Francesco Mastroberti, presents a legal-historical survey on the edition in the vulgar italian (Venice 1544) of the Liber Belial through the dissolution and examination of legal citations contained. With the text transcribed and annotated there is also a table of comparative legal citations found in lateran manuscript (XVth century) and in the oldest european print editions. INGLESE
Il Liber Belial (o Consolatio peccatorum ), scritto nel 1382 Giacomo Palladino (1349-1417) alias Jacopo da Teramo - che nella sua brillante carriera fu anche vescovo di Taranto - è stato uno dei libri più tradotti e stampati in Europa tra il XV e il XVI secolo. L’Autore immagina che i diavoli, dopo la discesa di Gesù agli inferi e la liberazione delle anime dei Patriarchi, intentino nei confronti del Risorto un’azione giudiziaria affidando la procura a Belial. Il processo che ne segue è descritto in tutte le sue fasi in un contesto di allegorie politiche (era in corso il grande scisma d’Occidente) e teologiche. Nonostante gli evidenti contenuti di interesse giuridico il Liber Belial risulta poco studiato forse per la sua riconosciuta stravaganza. Il presente volume presenta un’indagine storico-giuridica sull’edizione in volgare italiano (Venezia 1544) del Liber Belial attraverso lo scioglimento e l’esame delle citazioni giuridiche in esso contenute. Con il testo trascritto e annotato vi è anche una tavola comparativa delle citazioni giuridiche presenti nei manoscritti più antichi e nelle principali edizioni europee
Metodologia integrata per la lettura socio-economica del territorio e la localizzazione degli interventi
No full textGoing 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
A tale of a shrinking City? Exploring the complex interplay of socio-demographic dynamics in the recent development of Attica, Greece
No full textMixing peculiar socioeconomic conditions and demographic contexts, urban decline in Mediterranean Europe was less extensively documented than in other regions of the continent. Urbanization without industrialization or, more frequently, a ‘late and light’ industrialization prevented a specific interpretation of metropolitan dynamics in Mediterranean basin according with the paradigm of ‘industrial shrinkage’. For the first time in the recent history, the great recession was a factor leading to metropolitan decline in Southern Europe and, after more than one decade, its outcomes can be investigated considering sufficiently long time series of demographic indicators that assess natural population growth and migration rates. Benefiting from quantitative information derived from official statistics, the present study describes medium- and short-term demographic transformations in a large metropolitan region (Attica, Greece) in response to the great recession. After an uninterrupted growth lasting more than one century, the last decade (2010–2019) has provided a dynamic representation of regional population decline based on the interplay of long-term factors (aging, low fertility) and concomitant short-term disturbances (counter-urbanization and crisis-driven emigration). By delineating the most relevant socio-demographic mechanisms at the base of recent urban decline, our study contributes to (re)formulate short-term development scenarios in large metropolitan regions, shedding further light on crisis-driven shrinkage in Southern Europe
The long way to tipperary: City size and worldwide urban population trends, 1950–2030
No full textA comparative investigation of population growth gives accurate information on urban transformations at local and regional scales. A comprehensive understanding of future trends in global urbanization may benefit from a long-term analysis of city size, a key variable influencing population growth. Taken as a dynamic feature of urban systems, the relationship between city size and population growth was investigated in 1857 agglomerations (> 300,000 inhabitants in 2014) of 155 countries across the globe between 1950 and 2030. Despite important regional differences, an inverse relationship between population growth and city size was observed up to the late 1990s. Slowdown of population growth during more recent decades and higher spatial heterogeneity in population trends may reflect a transition from high to low fertility, ageing and spatially diversified migration patterns. Present (and future) population trends in urban agglomerations (will) overlap only partly with those observed in the past, being more unpredictable over time and space. Analysis of changes in the relationship between city size and population growth definitely contributes in the debate about the future development of urban agglomerations worldwide
Mezzogiorno, dualismo, sviluppo economico e capitale umano: un primo tentativo di interpretazione
No full textVariations 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
Da Vinci`s anatomical mistakes
No full textLeonardo da Vinci is an important philosopher, astronomer, architect, engineer, inventor, mathematician, anatomist, musician, sculptor, botanist, geologist, cartographer, writer and painter who lived in the Renaissance period. In addition to his numerous skills, he has made important contributions to anatomy, which are the cornerstones of medicine. Using our modern anatomical knowledge, we can determine that most of da Vinci`s descriptions of human anatomy are wrong. For example, he described four umbilical arteries. In the plexus brachialis drawings, it is seen that the thoracic spinal nerve does not participate in its formation. The seminal vesicle was shown incorrectly. He had an idea that semen moves into penis from the spinal cord, so he described the spinal cord extending into the penis. The spleen has an artery, which comes from the liver.Nevertheless, da Vinci made important discoveries and observable predictions about the facts, which had not been discovered previously. Unlike his contemporaries, he was the only one who carried out the work on the human body so meticulously. His scientific correctness added to Galen`s anatomical teachings
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