Search results for " Neighborhoods"

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Voisinages tubulaires épointés et homotopie stable à l'infini

2022

We initiate a study of punctured tubular neighborhoods and homotopy theory at infinity in motivic settings. We use the six functors formalism to give an intrinsic definition of the stable motivic homotopy type at infinity of an algebraic variety. Our main computational tools include cdh-descent for normal crossing divisors, Euler classes, Gysin maps, and homotopy purity. Under-adic realization, the motive at infinity recovers a formula for vanishing cycles due to Rapoport-Zink; similar results hold for Steenbrink's limiting Hodge structures and Wildeshaus' boundary motives. Under the topological Betti realization, the stable motivic homotopy type at infinity of an algebraic variety recovers…

links of singularities[MATH.MATH-AG] Mathematics [math]/Algebraic Geometry [math.AG]Motivic homotopy theorypunctured tubular neighborhoods[MATH.MATH-AT] Mathematics [math]/Algebraic Topology [math.AT]stable homotopy at infinityMathematics::Algebraic TopologyMathematics - Algebraic Geometrylinks of singularities.Mathematics::Algebraic Geometryquadratic invariantsMathematics::K-Theory and HomologyFOS: MathematicsAlgebraic Topology (math.AT)14F42 19E15 55P42 14F45 55P57Mathematics - Algebraic TopologyAlgebraic Geometry (math.AG)qua- dratic invariants
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A Mosaic of Suburbs: The Historic Boroughs of Palermo

2013

Palermo suburbs have grown and developed at the expense of becoming isolated from other parts of the city. Ancient boroughs have been eradicated, alongside their urban identities. The challenges of a cosmopolitan and global world are felt even in middle-sized, fringe cities like Palermo, as its suburbs are forced to become tiles of an urban mosaic that is created by urban development. It is the duty of urban scholars to clarify and strengthen the relationships between these urban parts, and in the process restore the neglected notion of neighborhood. By overcoming the distinction between cities and urban sprawl, the controversial dispute may be resolved by urban scholars. Through historica…

GeographyEnvironmental protectionUrban planningmedia_common.quotation_subjectGeography Planning and DevelopmentUrban sprawlMosaic (geodemography)boroughs suburbs neighborhoods quantitative and qualitative methodologies PalermoEconomic geographySettore M-GGR/01 - GeografiaSettore ICAR/21 - UrbanisticaDutymedia_common
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Exploring Neighborhood Influences on Small-Area Variations in Intimate Partner Violence Risk: A Bayesian Random-Effects Modeling Approach

2014

This paper uses spatial data of cases of intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) to examine neighborhood-level influences on small-area variations in IPVAW risk in a police district of the city of Valencia (Spain). To analyze area variations in IPVAW risk and its association with neighborhood-level explanatory variables we use a Bayesian spatial random-effects modeling approach, as well as disease mapping methods to represent risk probabilities in each area. Analyses show that IPVAW cases are more likely in areas of high immigrant concentration, high public disorder and crime, and high physical disorder. Results also show a spatial component indicating remaining variability attribut…

Domestic ViolenceHealth Toxicology and Mutagenesisintimate partner violencelcsh:MedicinePoison controlEmigrants and ImmigrantsRisk AssessmentArticleBayes' theoremsocial environmentResidence CharacteristicsBayesian spatial modelingEconometricsHumansWomenCitiesSpatial analysisPhysical disorderlcsh:RPublic Health Environmental and Occupational HealthRegression analysisBayes TheoremdisorderModels TheoreticalRandom effects modelBayesian spatial modeling; crime; disorder; immigration; intimate partner violence; neighborhoods; social environment; social disorganizationGeographySpainDomestic violenceRegression AnalysisneighborhoodsFemalesocial disorganizationCrimeRisk assessmentSocial psychologyimmigrationInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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Cultural institutions as agents of urban and community regeneration in the (post-)pandemic city. The case of the «Laboratorio Zen Insieme» in Palermo

2022

Although all cities in the world have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, its impacts on the territories, yet to be understood, are unevenly distributed, revealing extremely varied imbalances depending on the places. However, it is clear that the virus and its variants have aggravated pre-existing socio-spatial inequalities, creating new ones and bringing attention back to those implications between space, planning, public health and citizenship that are at the origins of contemporary urbanism. In a reference framework in which the crisis is globalized but unequal and in the absence of a welfare system capable of responding to the urgencies of the most marginalized social contexts and g…

Olsen 2018Settore ICAR/21 - UrbanisticaSettore M-GGR/01 - GeografiaSacco and Blessi 2009). In the current (post-) pandemic context and through the lens of a southern European perspective the purpose of this article is to critically reflect about the role of culture as possible vehicle of urban and community regeneration. In particular we will focus on the activities of the no profit organization «Laboratorio Zen Insieme» in ZEN2 one of the last large popular and peripheral neighborhoods built in Palermo at the end of 80s in order to explore and understand how cultural practices work as agent of urban and social transformation capable of addressing emerging issues especially in the pandemic scenario we are experiencing. Thecasestudy has been conducted through analysis of documents participative observations (Honer and Hitzler 2015) and qualitative in-depth interviews with key actors involved in the conception organization and management of the activities carried out by Laboratorio Zen Insieme with representatives of local institutions and non-formal conversations with participants of the workshops heldin the neighborhood. The experience we narrate finds that cultural practices have re-conceptualized their design and functions as strategies of urban and community regeneration and at the same time have contributed to answer to emergent issues in developing proximity and local based strategies facing up to problems inherent civil rights educationalpoverty socio-spatial justice and have changed the image and identity of urban places they inhabit.In this sense the research provides a framework for development of strategies and legitimization for cultural practices and a point of discussionabouttheirrolein urban development.Although all cities in the world have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic its impacts on the territories yet to be understood are unevenly distributed revealing extremely varied imbalances depending on the places. However it is clear that the virus and its variants have aggravated pre-existing socio-spatial inequalities creating new ones and bringing attention back to those implications between space planning public health and citizenship that are at the origins of contemporary urbanism. In a reference framework in which the crisis is globalized but unequal and in the absence of a welfare system capable of responding to the urgencies of the most marginalized social contexts and groups a response to the new social and individual needs has been offered by cultural institutions that play a role of territorial agency often independently or in the absence of political institutions. Far from the idea of entertainment and divertissement it is in fact increasingly clear how the practices of cultural innovation experimenting with various forms of action and participation can in some cases play a fundamental role in the processes of social cohesion and community building representing an antidote to the worsening of the phenomena of marginalization and socio-spatial inequalities within cities and territories (Colantonio and Dixon 2011
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El Dret a la Ciutat des de l'exclusió residencial: l'evolució dels barris vulnerables de la Comunitat Valenciana

2019

El derecho a la ciudad fue un concepto empleado por primera vez por Lefebvre (1968) entendido como aquel derecho de la ciudadanía a constituir ciudades que respondan a las necesidades humanas. De este modo, las necesidades de una ciudad no son más que la manifestación expresa de las necesidades colectivas de sus residentes reflejadas en el espacio urbano y comunitario (Caravantes, 2018). A las necesidades colectivas cabe sumársele las necesidades específicas de las personas que forman parte activa e integrante de las ciudades. La concentración de tales necesidades, así como de fenómenos vinculados al ámbito residencial conllevan a la “acumulación de clases desfavorecidas en las ciudades” (S…

Valencian regionPobresa -- País Valencià:Urbanisme [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC]Vulnerabilitat urbanaDerecho a la ciudadUrban vulnerabilityVulnerable neighborhoodsVulnerabilidad urbanaComunitat ValencianaPoverty -- Spain -- Valencia (Province)Dret a la ciutatBarrios vulnerablesRight to the cityBarris vulnerablesSociology Urban -- Spain -- Valencia (Province)Comunidad ValencianaSociologia urbana -- País ValenciàXIII CTV 2019 Proceedings: XIII International Conference on Virtual Cityand Territory: “Challenges and paradigms of the contemporary city”: UPC, Barcelona, October 2-4, 2019
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Community Development and Social Participation

2011

The paper presents the reslt of the action research project issued in Palermo (Southern Italy), in disadvantaged urban suburbs, methodologically based on Kurt Lewin's field theory - that is a three-step spiral process of planning which involves recoinnaissance; talking actions; and fact-finding about the results of the action - in order to develop the social participation and the social change. The principal aim of the project was the empowerment of participants, obtaining their collaboration through participation, giving them acquisition of knowledge for a real social change.

Settore M-PSI/07 - Psicologia DinamicaSettore M-DEA/01 - Discipline DemoetnoantropologicheCommunity Psychology Social Participation Empowerment Urban Context Neighborhoods Palermo
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Towards the Environmental Sustainability of the Construction Sector: Life Cycle Environmental Impacts of Buildings Retrofit

2022

In the context of the need for carbon emissions reduction, the buildingsector, as one of the most energy intensive one, needs tools and approaches towards carbon neutrality and the increase of the buildings overall energy performances. The paper proposes an integrated approach towards the environmental performances analysis of a small neighborhood having as goal the achievement of the Positive Energy District target and the assessment of its environmental impacts. The methodology proposed includes building modeling and dynamic energy simulation using the Energy Plus engine and a simplified Life Cycle Assessment approach. Two scenarios are investigated: i) the existing neighborhood, ii) the …

Positive Energy Districts · Neighborhoods · Building simulation Life Cycle Assessment · Environmental performancesSettore ING-IND/11 - Fisica Tecnica Ambientale
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