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G Bonafede
La perla nera del Mediterraneo. Iconografia, fortificazioni, paesaggio
Ustica (from the latin ustum= burned, volcanic wreckage) is a small island in the Mediterranean Sea. It has an area of about 87 hectares and a perimeter of about 12 km. It has volcanic origins and represents only a small part of a complex volcanic apparatus involving also the underwater mountain “Anchise”. Numerous studies have dealt with the island and its development; among these, particularly beautiful, is the volume Ustica, work of the Archduke from Toscana Salvatore di Asburgo, edited in Prague by the Typography Von Heinr Mercy Son in 1898, containing sixty drawings. The graphic corpus is systematic. It is not only the landscape or architectural description but consists also of drawing…
Working on the "dark place" of southern European metropolitan cities. An analysis of informal practices and critique on approaches of public housing policies
The debate on housing practices of self-help mainly focalizes on Southern countries of the world, while in the Northern countries informal practices are still marginal or neglected compared to their proactive roles that could play in reframing public policies. Although this phenomenon has been recently re-evaluated in Europe, especially as antagonism between legality and illegality and rights, the housing practices of self-help could be a promising approach to solve housing deprivation in many metropolitan cities where the gap of income between rich and poor is keener. However, in Italy and in other European countries, squatters are illegal persons and therefore it becomes more complicated …