Search results for " CREATIVE CITY"
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From Waterfront Regeneration to Fluid City Planning
2013
In current global crisis the strong flows of financial, social and relational capitals that powered urban regeneration over the last fifteen years are no longer available to be tapped in an indiscriminate manner as was the case until just a few years ago. The most dynamic cities in the future will no longer be those that are able to attract urban projects and investors driven by the real estate market or leisure-based development, but the cities that have deep and different cultural resources and that are able to use them as the basis for creating new urban cultures and for generating new economic values. Revitalising waterfront is no longer easy opportunity for long-term investments or for…
Re-imagine, Re-load, Re-cycle: New Urbanism for the City of Future
2014
The failure of European development model based on financial protocols urges the need to "re-think capitalism" toward a greater spatial dimension and a different approach in the use/reuse/reduction of the capitals utilised in development processes. Especially in Mediterranean Europe we have to restart from urban capitals (space, identity, quality, service and production) using them as renewed engines of sustainable growth (RE-IMAGINE). In the global change scenario, the shrinking city produces several urban "fragments", functional "chips" and "scraps" of development that, through a recycling process/project, can be brought back into urban infrastructures for new cycles of life (RE-CYCLE). T…
Progettare città nel tempo della metamorfosi
2013
Metamorfosi è una potente parola-guida della contemporaneità. E’ un impegno di cui numerosi segni ci facevano intravedere la necessità durante gli anni propulsivi della globalizzazione e molteplici indizi tracciavano la strada da percorrere. Ma, anestetizzati dalle aporie dello sviluppo, li abbiamo ignorati, emarginandoli nella ecosofia o reagendo in modo impulsivo con seducenti inni alla decrescita felice. Oggi invece gli anni recessivi di una crisi che non è una semplice stagione di attraversamento ci chiedono la responsabilità di un mutamento di paradigma che conduca alla metamorfosi ecologica, culturale, economica, sociale e politica. Ma il mutamento sarà soprattutto urbano, perché vivi…
Strategic Vision of a Euro-Mediterranean Port City: A Case Study of Palermo
2013
Italian harbours assume a decisive role in order to develop a Euro-Mediterranean web for maritime transportation. The geostrategic position of the Italian peninsula can be seen as a logistic platform at the centre of the maritime trades in the Mediterranean area, giving to its port cities the role of gateway of economic flows. The port poles, meant as hubs, are able to attract investments and create economic growth and territorial development through new operative models of urban usage and management. The management policies have to consider the environmental characteristics and distinctive features, respecting the identity of the places as concrete evidence of history, a source of intellec…
Augmented City : a Paradigm Shift
2017
Augmented City is a spatial/cultural/social/economic platform for enhancing our contemporary life, individual and collective, informal and institutional. If we live and act in a reality permanently improved by hard and soft devices, our cities must be more responsive to our behavioral changes. In incoming Neo-Anthropocene cities are " vibrant organisms of space and community, of data and information, of sensors and actuators, of actions and reactions, of urban/rural metabolism generated by people and environment both.
Re-think, Re-load, Re-cycle: Mediterranean Urban Metamorphosis
2013
Metamorphosis is the new and powerful keyword in time of crisis. We are not undergoing a mere -even though dramaticpassing situation, but we are living in a crisis which requires a metamorphosis of the ecological, cultural, economic, social and political systems to get out of it other than we were when entering it. The metamorphosis will have to be mainly urban, because we are now in the Urban Age in which more than half the population live and work in cities, at levels exceeding 80% in Europe. The city, as the predominant form of inhabiting, is invested with the “responsibility” of producing innovative, more sustainable, intelligent and creative life styles, able of generating the innovati…