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A Military Building Project for the Defense of Naples in the Post-unification 19th century
Full text linkAfter the Unification of Italy, the city of Naples did not suffer any particular militarisation. In addition to the reinforcement of castle defences, the monasteries suppressed during the French Decade and the subsequent Bourbon era underwent a change of use into care centres as a result of the damage caused by the war. The few new projects for city defence structures arose in strategic positions, allowing control of the territory in all directions.
The Istituto Storico e di Cultura dell’Arma del Genio (ISCAG) preserves around four hundred cartographies of the Neapolitan territory, which depict the military presence in the city since the early 19th century. Among the reproductions, a project from the 1880s concerning a territorial area that was profoundly modified in the following centuries is of particular interest. The project relates to a closed construction to be built on the Camaldoli hill, containing plans and sections of the new fortification to be erected, and complete with a conservative variant concerning the preservation of the 16th-century church.
The contribution intends to analyse the militarisation projects that were to be established in pleasant, panoramic and uncontaminated places in the Neapolitan landscape, which within a few decades would no longer be recognisable due to the damage caused above all by postwar speculation.
Through the critical investigation of graphic and iconographic sources, the final objective of this work is the construction of a digital model of
the projects that, appropriately inserted into a digital territorial context, will make it possible to visualise the Neapolitan hills in the particular connotation that the new interventions would have given them
Mappe di guerra. Una tassonomia delle relazioni tra cartografia e conflitti bellici - Maps of war. A taxonomy of the relationships between cartography and conflicts
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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
Drawing the rite: cartography of the ephemeral occupation of public space in Seville
No full textIl rito, essendo un fenomeno consustanziale al fatto urbano, e un campo inspiegabilmente
poco esplorato attraverso la rappresentazione grafica architettonica. 11 suo carattere volatile, efflmero, dinamico e antropologicamente imprevedibile rende difficile trovare un metodo grafico preciso. La trasversa/ita disciplinare del rito ci impone di approfondire i suoi aspetti trasversali,
avallando l'opportunita investigativa di rivelare le relazioni tra occupazione spaziale, forrnalizzazione urbanistica-architettonica e comportamento collettivo. Siviglia, e una citta con
una vasta gamma di rituali che periodicamente trasforrnano il suo spazio pubblico attraverso occupazioni efflmere, eventi corali e architetture effimere. Studiandone tre, la comunicazione cerca di mostrare possibili metodologie cartografiche che perrnettano la ricomposizione di quei
«momenti» efflmeri come strumento per conoscere l'incidenza del rito (dell'efflmero) ne/la forrnalizzazione e trasforrnazione della citta (del solido).The rite, being a phenomenon consubstantial to the urban fact, is a field inexplicably little explored through the architectural graphic representation. lts volatile, ephemeral, dynamic and anthropologically unpredictable character makes it difficult to find a precise graphic method. The disciplinary transversality of the rite requires us to de/ve into its transversal aspects, endorsing the investigative opportunity to revea/ the relationships between spatial occupation, urban-architectural forrnalization and collective behavior. Seville, is a city with a wide range of rituals that periodically transform its public space through ephemeral occupations, chora/ events and ephemeral architectures. By studying three of them), the communication seeks to
show possible cartographic methodologies that allow the recomposition of those ephemeral 'moments' as an instrument to know the incidence of the rite (of the ephemeraQ in the forrnalization and transfonnation of the city (of the so/id)
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
I due volti della Fortezza Veneziana di Bergamo: la manutenzione delle Mura “nascoste". The two faces of the Venetian Fortress of Bergamo: taking care for the “hidden” Walls
No full textNel XVI secolo Venezia costruì un forte bastionato attorno al colle di Bergamo che è divenuto nel corso dei secoli un elemento caratterizzante del paesaggio cittadino.
Mentre il tratto meridionale della cinta, apprezzato dagli abitanti come passeggiata, è in ottime condizioni di conservazione, la porzione settentrionale mostra il deterioramento dei paramenti murari, aggrediti dalla vegetazione infestante.
Questo studio ripercorre le tappe che hanno portato alla definizione di una strategia di conservazione programmata.In the 16th century Venice built a bastion fort around the hill of Bergamo. Over the centuries, it became a noticeable landmark of the city.
While the southern part of the ring, enjoyed by the inhabitants as the city promenade, is in excellent condition, the northern portion shows the deterioration of the walls, attacked by overgrown vegetation.
This study traces the stages that led to the definition of a planned conservation strategy
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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