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Il Polar prima del Polar: il poliziesco italo-americano tra fine Ottocento e gli anni Trenta del Novecento

2018

Tra la fine dell’Ottocento e gli anni Trenta del Novecento, alcuni Italiani immigrati negli Stati Uniti – quali, fra gli altri, Bernardino Ciambelli, Italo Stanco, Garibaldi Marto Lapolla, Louis Forgione, nonché il sodalizio letterario costituito da Michael Fiaschetti e Prosper Buranelli – si sono cimentati nel genere del poliziesco con alcuni testi che, partendo da alcune delle caratteristiche tipiche del Mystery, quali la serializzazione e l’incardinamento della fabula in uno specifico contesto urbano, insieme ad alcuni degli elementi caratteriali dei personaggi dell’Hard boiled non perdono mai di vista la peculiare ‘missione’ di denuncia politica, economica e sociale. Facendo del problem…

Settore L-FIL-LET/14 - Critica Letteraria E Letterature ComparateBetween late XIX and the first 30 years of the XX Century some Italians immigrated to the United States – such as Bernardino Ciambelli Italo Stanco Garibaldi Marto Lapolla Louis Forgione Michael Fiaschetti and Prosper Buranelli – wrote some texts that starting from the typical features of Mystery (serialization and incardination of the fabula in a specific urban context) together with some of the characteristic elements of the Hard boiled never lose sight of the peculiar 'mission' of political economic and social denunciation. Taking the political and social problems as the primary key of their works these writers want to remove the defamatory role attributed by the public opinion fomented by the press to Italian immigrated community. Their works don’t have the main intent to stage detectives that can solve a case or unmask a culprit but rather they aim to denounce social distortions corruption and injustices suffered by an entire community and not least to indicate the picture of what on the contrary that same society could have been.
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Assessment of Energy and Economic Effectiveness of Photovoltaic Systems Operating in a Dense Urban Context

2013

A methodology that permits testing the level of integration of the photovoltaic technology in urban areas is presented. The percentage of coverage of the electricity demand of grid-connected photovoltaic systems installed on the roofs of buildings were investigated in a district of the city of Palermo (Sicily). After classifying roofs according to their shape, orientation and pitch by means of satellite images provided by Google Earth, the ratio of the productivity of the PV systems and the consumption of electricity of the households was analysed. The results of the energy assessment have been screened considering the economic feasibility of grid-connected photovoltaic systems: the energy …

Urban ContextEngineeringArchitectural engineeringGrid-connected photovoltaic systems Photovoltaic Solar potential urban context Available roof surface Energy assessment Economic assessment Energy cover factorGrid-connected Photovoltaic Systems;Photovoltaic;Solar Potential;Urban Context;Available Roof Surface;Energy Assessment;Economic Assessment;Energy Cover FactorSolar PotentialAvailable Roof SurfaceEnergy Engineering and Power TechnologyContext (language use)Environmental Science (miscellaneous)lcsh:Technologylcsh:HD72-88lcsh:Economic growth development planningPhotovoltaicsEnergy AssessmentRooftop photovoltaic power stationEnergy Cover FactorWater Science and TechnologySettore ING-IND/11 - Fisica Tecnica AmbientaleRenewable Energy Sustainability and the Environmentbusiness.industrylcsh:TPhotovoltaic systemPhotovoltaic mounting systemSolar potentialEconomic AssessmentEnergy assessmentbusinessGrid-connected Photovoltaic SystemsPannelli fotovoltaici conto energia analisi energetica ed economicaPhotovoltaicEnergy (signal processing)Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems
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Earth resistance measurements in urban contexts: Problems and possible solutions

2017

Both EN 50522 and IEEE Std. 81 propose the Fall of Potential Method (FPM) to carry out the measurement of the resistance to earth of an Earthing System (ES). However, in urban areas, the recommended distances between the ES and auxiliary electrodes are not easy to respect, due to the presence of buildings and tarmac. Moreover, unknown buried metallic parts, as well as the interconnection among the ESs made by the Distributor System Operator, could modify the earth potential profile of the area, affecting the measurement results. In this paper, the issues that could affect the measurement result if FPM is used in an urban context are presented. A parametric analysis, carried out with Comsol …

earthing systemEngineering020209 energyMultiphysicsContext (language use)02 engineering and technologyEarthing; Grounding; earth resistance measurements; urban context; IEEE Std. 81; EN 50522; fall-of-potential method; earthing system; unknown buried metallic partsField (computer science)Operator (computer programming)0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringurban contextGroundingSimulationInterconnectionbusiness.industryGroundEN 50522Potential methodEarthing systemReliability engineeringSettore ING-IND/33 - Sistemi Elettrici Per L'Energiafall-of-potential methodunknown buried metallic partsEarthingearth resistance measurementsIEEE Std. 81businessEarth resistance
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Community Participation in Urban Suburbs: The Italian Case of Z.E.N. Slum of Palermo

2015

Based on Kurt Lewin’s Action Research theory, the paper focuses on an Action Research project issued in Southern Italy, in the disadvantaged suburb of Palermo (Sicily), called Z.E.N., sadly famous as a dangerous and “criminogenic” urban slum, in order to stimulate social participation and to develop social change. The principal goal was the empowerment of ordinary inhabitants, obtaining their collaboration through participation, giving them acquisition of knowledge for a real social change.

Community psychology empowerment social participation urban context Palermo minority groupsSettore M-PSI/07 - Psicologia DinamicaSettore M-DEA/01 - Discipline Demoetnoantropologiche
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ENERGY RETROFIT AND URBAN RENOVATION. APPLICATION OF SBTOOL METHOD. A CASE STUDY IN TRAPANI, ITALY

2013

Climate changes caused by carbon emissions are nowadays considered as one of the greatest threats faced by humanity, because they cause problems of human health and poor prospects for global economy. It means that, also in the field of architecture and urban planning, there is an urgency to find appropriate solutions to face this issue, as demonstrated by the increasing amount of normative measures and policy at global level. The paper aims to show a critical analysis of the urban context conducted through the application of sustainability assessment tool - SBTool - into the social housing complex of Cappuccinelli district, chosen as case study. The choice for applying this methodology, whi…

Settore ICAR/10 - Architettura TecnicaSBTool urban context sustainable indicators energy retrofittingSettore ICAR/21 - Urbanistica
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Universal design as resilient urban space plan strategy. New scenarios for environmental resources’ sustainable management

2021

Nowadays, urban framework, stressed by the growing anthropic pressure and its constantly evolving use requests is split by uneven structures, contexts, users and patchy needs, which come out to be inefficient and ineffective in access and management. This fact is directly connected both with morph-functional structure of urban texture and its continuous changing trends. The most important consequences of this situation are some negative effects that produce entropy, mistaken anthropic space uses, ecological networks decrease and most of all a substantial urban life quality reduction connected with mobility problems and non-resilient spaces' use at the different plan scales. These elements m…

Computer sciencemedia_common.quotation_subjectUniversal designEnvironmental resources Plan strategy Resilience Universal design Urban contextPlan (drawing)Environmental economicsEcological networkEnvironmental sciencesenvironmental resourcesPublic spaceuniversal design; urban context; plan strategy; resilience; environmental resourcesuniversal designSustainable managementSettore AGR/01 - Economia Ed Estimo RuraleSustainabilityplan strategyurban contextQuality (business)GE1-350Design for AllresilienceGeneral Environmental Sciencemedia_common
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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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Environmental Implications of Traffic Flow Delays: a Model for Urban Streets

2013

In this paper the problem of road's capacity is dealt in presence of perturbations of the vehicular flow. In particular, among the different disturbing causes, it is here considered the presence of vehicles parked along the road in relation to their parking activity. Having already established the delay, caused by those vehicles leaving their stationary positions and entering the traffic flow or by those who slow down the flow to park, it is possible to evaluate the changes in time running values. Related to these times delay, the extra pollutant emissions by a given urban running fleet is also evaluated, by utilizing emission factors depending on age, type, volume capacity and engine of th…

Settore ING-IND/11 - Fisica Tecnica AmbientaleSettore ING-IND/10 - Fisica Tecnica IndustrialeTraffic flow Environmental implications Urban contexts.
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Giustizia ambientale e recupero delle aree verdi: il caso di Palermo

2021

L’urban shrinkage è diventata una questione centrale tanto nel dibattito scientifico quanto nell’agenda politica di diverse città europee. Secondo i dati EUROSTAT (2019), circa il 40% delle città europee con più di 200.000 abitanti stanno perdendo popolazione; una contrazione che si esplicita maggiormente, sotto il profilo spaziale, in una progressiva sottoutilizzazione del patrimonio edificato, così come nel contestuale incremento di aree e terreni in stato di abbandono. In questo quadro controverso di mutazione strutturale della città, così come l’abbiamo conosciuta, le politiche urbane alla prova in Europa tentano di declinare la decrescita quale occasione strategica di investimento sull…

Urban shrinkage became a central issue in both the scientific debate and the political agenda of several European cities. According to EUROSTAT data (2019) about 40% of European cities with more than 200000 inhabitants are losing population. A shrinkage that is more explicit in a progressive underutilization of the built heritage as well as in the concomitant increase of abandoned areas. In this controversial framework of structural mutation of the city urban policies in Europe try to decline the degrowth as a strategic opportunity to invest in green areas in order to increase urban quality and to act simultaneously on the development of local economies. With respect to the above framework this contribution focuses on the evaluation of the effects that the project of new public green spaces have generated on some sample areas on the outskirts of the city of Palermo. An urban context where according to the latest Svimez Report (2019) the phenomenon of urban shrinkage represents a constantly growing trend and on which the new Master Plan operates through a revival of interventions on environmental capital and urban green areas of the city.Settore ICAR/21 - Urbanistica
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