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International Conference Shaping light for health and wellbeing in cities
No full textThe book collects contributions presented during the international conference “Shaping light for health and wellbeing in cities” organized in the framework of the H2020 ENLIGHTENme project. The conference has investigated the multifaceted consequences light has on life in cities, by adopting a multidisciplinary and integrated approach to explore the complexity of challenges urban lighting poses on health and wellbeing, urban realm and social life. Papers cover several disciplines such as clinical and biomedical sciences, ethics and Responsible Research & Innovation, urban planning and architecture, data accessibility and interoperability, as well as social sciences and economics, and provide multifaceted insights that inspire further explorations. Contributions represent a step towards the development of innovative policies for improving health and wellbeing in our cities, addressing indoor and outdoor lighting
Highlighting circular cities trends in urban planning. A review in support of future research tendencies
No full textCircular economy is seen as an opportunity of overcoming the traditional linear model of consumption and production based on the “take-make-dispose” model, in favour of a more sustainable use of resources. It is acknowledged that the city scale is relevant in this transition towards circularity, even if there is a lack of implementation of the circular city through plans and policies. A higher understanding of the interrelations between circular economy and urban planning is therefore needed. This study, through a scoping review and a bibliometric analysis, allowed to systematize and analyse the knowledge about the existing trends in planning circular cities and to identify gaps for future research. What emerged is that a methodology to integrate circular economy principles into urban planning tools and procedures still does not exist in literature, even though some recurrent decision-making framework are frequently used and the topic is currently under debate
NEW APPROACHES FOR SEISMIC IMPROVEMENT AND RENOVATION OF ADRIATIC AND IONIAN HISTORIC URBAN CENTRES. ADRISEISMIC in a nutshell
Full text linkThe ADRION area is heavily subject to natural hazards, and it is the highest risk earthquake area in Europe. The high vulnerability is due not only to the power of earthquakes, but also to the high population density and to the important value of the Cultural and Natural Heritage, confirmed by a large number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites and UNESCO Geoparks.
Each involved Adriatic-Ionian Region has developed laws and norms, methods and techniques as well as expertise for tackling earthquake risks and for reducing seismic vulnerability of the built environment, in particular historical heritage buildings and public squares. Nevertheless, seismic vulnerability of urban areas and particularly historical centres remains at high level. Cooperating in environmental
risk prevention, management of emergencies, reconstruction and seismic retrofitting of damaged buildings can produce significant improvements in facing seismic vulnerability reduction in urban ADRION areas.
ADRISEISMIC overall project objective is to exchange and systematize knowledge and practices in tackling the reduction of the seismic vulnerability of the built environment in the six project partners’ countries (Albania, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Serbia and Slovenia), to harmonize planning and management of emergencies after seismic events and the post-earthquake phase, by providing ready-to-use methods, tools and procedures that will be integrated into the existing policies and practices, thus strengthening local responses and reducing vulnerability to natural hazards. The main focus areas are the historical urban centres and historical squares and their surrounding buildings, conceived as symbol of local identity and socio-economic cores for the ADRION settlements.
The aim of this e-book is twofold: on the one hand, describing in detail the learning process developed within ADRISEISMIC project to stimulate the exchange of experience mainly at interregional and local levels. On the other hand, to present the main project outputs and results, which consist of the expeditious assessment methodology; 2 regional and 2 local Action Plans, developed respectively for region
of Crete in Greece and region of Bačka in Serbia, and the city of Gjirokaster in Albania and the city of Kaštela in Croatia; and the Moodle Platform, conceived as a key tool for setting a new cooperation network while improving skills and expertise concerning seismic vulnerability reduction.
The ADRISEISMIC e-book can be a useful reference for those who are interested in establishing an exchange of experience process among peers that are dealing with the same topics and co-designing tailored solutions at regional and local level with the active involvement of the local stakeholders
Enhancing Resilience of Cultural Heritage in Historical Areas: A Collection of Good Practices
Full text linkAlthough the need to protect and draw upon the various benefits of heritage as an asset for resilience is nowadays more clearly highlighted than in the past, policies to protect heritage from disaster risk remain fragmented, while the importance of learning from heritage and existing knowledge for building resilience is underestimated. The aim of this study is to provide an insight on good practices dealing with cultural heritage when it comes to disaster risk management and climate change adaptation, aiming at increasing cultural heritage resilience of historical areas. To this aim, the paper applies the best practice research methodology for investigating cultural heritage resilience in historical areas through the codification and analysis of good practices collected from EU-funded projects. The results consist of more than 90 good practices reviewed and analyzed according to a set of criteria. The research findings, organized according to three main categories (i.e., institutional, structural/physical, social), contribute to emphasizing the importance of improving knowledge from already available good practices. Two main approaches have been highlighted in the discussion, according to the key role assigned to stakeholders, education, data, and technology. The results allow to take advantage of existing knowledge to support communities to increase resilience of cultural heritage in historical areas
Assessing energy efficiency at urban scale through the use of energy performance certificates: An application in the Emilia-Romagna region, Italy
Full text linkEnergy retrofitting of residential buildings is considered a challenge to be tackled not only at building level, but also at urban scale, to give a stronger impulse for a concrete transition towards climate neutrality. This paper presents an easy-to-use analysis method based on the elaboration and scaling-up of data collected through the energy performance certificates (EPCs) to identify different urban energy zones distinguished by their energy performance index. This method is therefore conceived for better informing urban planning decisions, thus boosting more effective energy-sensitive urban planning strategies and eventually to foresee dedicated financial instruments to act in the more energy demanding areas of the city, establishing priorities for integrated strategies. This analytical method has been applied and tested in one municipality in the Emilia-Romagna region, Italy, where the recent urban planning law is pushing municipalities towards the development of urban planning strategies oriented to drastically improve the energy efficiency of the existing building stock. Results show that only a small number of areas manage to reach a good performance with fairly low levels of energy performance index, with the most critical situation found in the most central areas of the capital and in the hamlets
Vivere la città universitaria. L’abitare studentesco come generatore di trasformazioni
Full text linkLe città che stanno rafforzando il loro ruolo di centri di formazione superiore stanno vivendo processi di trasformazione che mettono a dura prova le loro società, l’ambiente e le economie. In questo contesto, la complessa interazione tra le strategie urbane e l’agenda delle università, l’offerta e la domanda di alloggi e la lotta per trovare alloggi a prezzi accessibili rimangono un’area poco esplorata dalla ricerca e dalle politiche pubbliche, nonostante influenzi profondamente la vita degli studenti e, in generale, la sostenibilità sociale della città.
Il progetto di ricerca LINUS - Living the university city: student housing as driver of changes, affronta questi aspetti concentrandosi sulle dinamiche degli alloggi per studenti come motore dei cambiamenti urbani, in cui le politiche di attrazione di università e città e la relativa crescita della popolazione studentesca mettono sotto pressione i sistemi abitativi locali.
Il volume raccoglie gli Atti della Conferenza pubblica dal titolo Vivere la città universitaria, L’abitare studentesco come generatore di trasformazioni, tenutasi a Padova il 31 maggio 2024. La conferenza è stata organizzata nell’ambito del Progetto di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN PNRR 2022) LINUS, finanziato dal Ministero per l’Università e la Ricerca (MUR) su fondi Next Generation EU. Ogni capitolo si apre con interventi a cura dei delle coordinatrici e dei coordinatori delle sessioni, con analisi e posizionamento nella letteratura e nei dibattiti nazionali ed internazionali, accademici e delle politiche. Completano la seconda parte di ogni capitolo i contributi delle persone ospiti della conferenza.
In linea con il quadro investigativo del progetto, infatti, il seminario ha favorito il confronto tra un gruppo multidisciplinare di accademici, con esperti del settore dell’abitare studentesco e decisori pubblici, articolando la discussione attorno a tre assi principali: i sistemi universitari, la città - intesa come sistema decisionale pubblico e locale, e il corpo studentesco nel suo complesso
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
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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