Search results for " Urban landscape"
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Urban landscape evolution as a consequence of an invasive pest: The case of a small sicilian town
2017
The Red Palm Weevil (RPW), after its accidental introduction in Italy in 2005, determined a progressive disruption of Canary palms mostly in the central and southern regions. As it is difficult to undertake the management of this pest, the possibility of substituting the killed/symptomatic palms with other ornamental trees has been recently discussed. In this context, understanding the citizens' needs about green areas can improve the management of public parks and urban greening. Involving citizens on the natural resource management using public participation processes is crucial. The case study of a small town of Sicily (Italy) was treated and the spread of this pest was monitored. Moreov…
The Value of the Useless in the Urban Landscape of Small Islands
2015
Abstract. In the variety of the Italian landscape-cultural mosaic, the morphology of Favignana (Egadi Islands) is the outcome of the long-term relationship between natural environment and human actions that has drawn both natural and urban landscape. This relationship, that constitutes the Favignana’s architectural and landscape heritage, is often denied or forgotten because of transformations caused by a new demand of efficiency (usefulness?) in reference to an economic policy based on the tourism-related activities. In this case-study, the Analytic Network Process (ANP) (selected among the Multicriteria Analysis techniques because of its holistic approach) has applied to support the choic…
Sustainable Urban Requalification: Circularity of Processes for a New Metabolism
2014
Through this paper we present the first results of a research combining the management problem of Municipal Solid Waste to the requalification of built environment. The goal of this research is to mitigate the vulnerability of territory and urban heritage and to transform a problem into opportunities. Above all, we have paid attention to several exemplifying cases of Italian territory: suburbs of large towns, historical centres, small centres (and, in particular, those with a strong historical connotation). Their features are, at the same time, restrictions and challenges for designing new compatible systems that can contribute to the requalification of urban landscape recovering spaces wit…
Past and Future: The Urban Landscape and the Virtuous Management of Resource Flows for a Sustainable Environment
2022
A circular process in the case of resource flows can best be expressed according to a plan that takes into account the geographical proximity and synergy between citizens and industries. The study hypothesizes the possibility of anticipating part of the recycling processes in residential urban areas. This streamlines the work phases and consumers become an active part of the process. Circular management of resource flows is an operational problem that emerges with greater severity in an urban landscape, due to the constraints generated by road networks and the need to protect basic values. It often happens that the degradation generated by the irresolute nature of the technical environmenta…
Amman. Il progetto di architettura tra modernità e tradizione
2019
Amman è luogo denso di storia e avido di modernità, confine entropico di culture in cui giordani, iracheni, palestinesi, siriani, insieme esprimono l’anima composita della città. L’odierna struttura insediativa è il frutto dell’espansione realizzata sui resti della Philadelphia romana dall’emiro Abdullah intorno al 1921. In quest’area l’Abdali Urban Regeneretion Project, una grande scommessa di trasformazione urbana avviata sin dal 2013, prevede la costruzione di grattacieli, edifici multifunzionali e commerciali, parchi, con interventi pubblici e privati. Qui, sono sorte negli ultimi anni due importanti architetture: l’Al-Hussein Cultural Center e la Greater Amman Municipality. Proprio in …
The urban being between environment and landscape. On the old town as an emerging subject
2018
The landscape units of the Sicilian mountainous inland, as for the case of Petralia Soprana, are marked by the presence of ancient urban centres controlling the agricultural territory, from which they derived their own wealth, and to which they conferred landscape significance. The unity between economy and landscape has been interrupted by the radical transformation of the socio-economic structure and the technologic progress, which have eroded the consistency between structures and superstructures. We propose an assessment approach based on a synthesis of semiotic and phenomenological view. The approach mainly focuses on the basic concepts and contents of the valuation process that can be…
La città islamica tra modernità e tradizione. Amman e l’architettura degli spazi pubblici
2019
Amman è luogo denso di storia e avido di modernità, confine entropico di culture in cui giordani, iracheni, palestinesi, siriani, insieme esprimono l’anima composita della città. L’odierna struttura insediativa è il frutto dell’espansione realizzata sui resti della Philadelphia romana dall’emiro Abdullah intorno al 1921. La logica dell’impianto urbano legge e interpreta il ruolo condizionante delle jebel nell’ambito della morfologia del sito: si sviluppa, infatti, sui versanti collinari, laddove interi quartieri residenziali, moschee e edifici amministrativi sono stati edificati nel tempo e lungo le valli comprese tra le colline, introducendo grande qualità nel modo di rappresentarsi della …
Tra Limes e Limen
2014
Between “limes” and “limen” Analyzing the gathered projects, there is a common result, characterized by the Latin words “limes” and “limen”. The two words explain the way the projects, giving shape to the interection between town and countryside, establish a condition of limit or threshold. 01. The agricultural Gugliotta park at piano Tavola, Carini At Carini, for the first area of the project there are two different attitudes. The groups Cacciatore, Farina, Prandi and Moduloquattro analyze via Rocco Chinnici as main element of their intervention, while the groups Elmo and Trisciuglio designed installations where this axis is diluted or denied. 02. The margin of the agricultural park of str…
La Città Selvatica: Paesaggi Urbani Contemporanei, a cura di Annalisa Metta e Maria Livia Olivetti
2021
Rescensione di Metta A., Olivetti M.L. (a cura di, 2019). La Città Selvatica: Paesaggi Urbani Contemporanei, Libria, Melfi
I paesaggi urbani "generati" dalle politiche attuate ad Agrigento in seguito alla frana del 1966
2020
After more than fifty years after the landslide of 19 July 1966 which involved most of the historical centre of Agrigento, the paper aims to reflect on the results of the policies implemented by the national government as a result of this dramatic event and on the effect that such policies have had on urban landscape. In particular, the paper focuses on the degradation conditions that characterize both the historical neighbourhood of Rabato-Santa Croce, which was partially abandoned by the inhabitants following the landslide, and the new district of public housing "Villaseta", built outside of the Agrigento city, where the inhabitants - who had lost their homes - were transferred.