Search results for " Cartography"
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Incheon, vitrine de la Corée du Sud et masque de Séoul
2007
National audience; The present South Korean government's ambition is to give the port of Incheon the new aspect of a global city thanks to a gigantic free trade zone. The constraints met at different scales lead to wonder about the possibility for Incheon to gain a real international influence. Despite the extent of current improvements which also aim at reducing the size of Seoul, Incheon cannot claim to go beyond its role as a gateway to the capital city whose global functions are deeply rooted in the Korean urban system; Le gouvernement sud-coréen actuel a pour ambition de donner à la ville portuaire d'Incheon un nouveau visage, celui d'une ville globale, grâce à une gigantesque zone fra…
Lingue e culture della montagna: le Madonie nell’esperienza dell’Atlante Linguistico della Sicilia (ALS)
2015
The cultural context of the Madonie — a hilly and mountainous territory near Palermo with about 60,000 inhabitants distributed in 22 little villages, some of which overlook the Tyrrhenian Sea — results from the influence of three external areas (those surrounding three of the most important towns in Sicily: Palermo, Caltanissetta, and Messina). The most relevant effect of such a complex multidirectional influence is the presence of three different micro-areas, each marked by different linguistic and cultural peculiarities. Since a situation of complex and “ordered” ethnolinguistic variability may be observed in the Madonie, the area and its micro-areas are currently investigated in a resear…
A bibliometric review of sukuk literature
2023
Abstract Sukuk (Islamic bonds) are one of the Islamic finance sectors that have experienced the fastest growth during the last decade. Using a quali-quantitative approach known as meta-literature review, the aim of this paper is to survey the sukuk literature over the period 1950–2018. In total we review and analyze 80 papers through bibliometric citation analysis (using HistCite and VOSviewer software) coupled with content analysis. We show the influential aspects of the literature, such as countries, institutions, journals, authors, articles and topics. We also present the co-authorship network and identify three research streams: (1) sukuk overview and growth, (2) sukuk and finance theor…
Border Maps. (Counter-)cartographies of the Mediterranean
2020
Negli ultimi decenni il Mediterraneo è stato progressivamente tra- sformato in una frontiera liquida, uno spazio in cui le tecnologie di governo della mobilità si imprimono violentemente sui corpi di coloro i quali cercano di raggiungere l’Europa. Nonostante la rap- presentazione di flussi ed eventi migratori rappresenti una sfida per la cartografia e la sua geometria statica di confine, numerosi sono i tentativi recenti di utilizzo del linguaggio cartografico per rappre- sentare quel che accade alle frontiere meridionali d’Europa, specie nell’ambito della cartografia critica e radicale. Questo intervento si propone di esplorare la relazione fra eventi migratori e pratiche di (counter-)mapp…
Modélisation de l’évolution d’un finage, du rural au périurbain (Montagne bourguignonne)
2007
La transformation accélérée des rapports entre les sociétés villageoises et leur territoire a des conséquences de nature à la fois organisationnelle, biophysique et agronomique: les opérations d'aménagement rural y trouvent leur justification. Une démarche de diagnostic de territoire a été élaborée et mise en oeuvre à l'occasion de ces opérations. Un itinéraire méthodologique permet de construire un «modèle morpho-historique» qui rend des interrelations entre milieu physique et histoire d'un lieu, à travers un système de relations territorialisé. Le modèle «MH» permet, dans le cadre de procédures d'aménagement, de repérer des portions de territoire «sensibles».
Analisi della naturalità del mosaico territoriale in Sicilia
2009
A new index (NEI - Naturalness Evaluation Index) is applied in order to evaluate the landscape degree of conservation and naturalness. Land mosaic has been classified into four different levels of conservation, taking into account the relative influence of natural processes and anthropic activities. Fitocoenoses structure and floristic composition are used as indicators. As a case study Sicily (Italy) was chosen. The methodology has been applied to reclassify Corine Land Cover data and obtain a Naturalness map. The area of study has been divided into reference units (municipalities) and the index has been calculated for each land unit. The index has proved to be very useful for visualising …
The Real World in a Geographical Imagery: World of Warcraft as Playful Cartography?
2017
World of Warcraft (WoW) is an extremely well-known and wide-spread virtual universe, populated by millions of people living, as of 2014, in 244 different countries, and so coming from different cultures. The game can be considered the final result of a half-century of growing interest in fantasy and virtual worlds; starting from Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. In the passage from book to videogame, fantasy has become an immersive experience that captures the player and forces him or her to revise their idea of how the world works. Everyone can read these worlds as simple games or, rather, through multifarious levels that show the connections between reality and virtuality. Our paper aims a…
Digital orthophotos at a scale of 1:5000 from high resolution satellite images
2004
This paper describes the first results of a study, carried out within the national research program “Cofin2001”, on the potential use of high resolution satellite images for making digital orthophotos at a scale of 1:5000 and 1:10,000. Particularly, images from IKONOS II and QuickBird of four different types of areas were employed: the first area is the city of Palermo, a greatly urbanized area; the second area is the extra-urban territory near the town of Contessa Entellina in south-western Sicily; the third area is the famous tourist resort of Scopello, in the western Sicily; the last area is the Caselle Airport, a flat zone near Torino. The first three images were orthorectified by using…
Michelangelo Blasco versus Ferdinando Fuga: una nuova attribuzione per il ponte sul Milicia in Sicilia
2015
The finding at the National Library of Spain of an eighteenth-century engraving of the bridge over the river Milicia, along the coast to the east of Palermo, is a chance not only to shed light on the complex history of the design and construction of one of the main Sicilian bridges, but also to attribute the real paternity rather than to the famous architect Ferdinando Fuga to the lesser-known military engineer, serving the Austrian Crown, Michelangelo Blasco, whose long and successful career is reconstructed: from Sicily, through Milan, Wien and Lisbon, to the uncharted territory of Brazil.
I nomi dei venti in Sicilia tra toponomastica, geomorfologia e “mondo magico”. Possibili itinerari di ricerca
2014
Il sistema anemonomastico siciliano appare leggibile su due livelli: da un lato i nomi dialettali dei venti ripropongono in larga misura quelli presenti nell’italiano tramontana, maestrale, greco, scirocco, libeccio, dall’altro si rileva un numero impressionante di anemonimi rifatti su un toponimo e, più spesso, sull’etnico corrispondente, se il paese che dà il nome al vento è situato lungo la direzione da cui esso spira. Ciò è particolarmente evidente per i nomi dei venti “freddi”. Per essi, mediante una ricerca su una piccola porzione del territorio siciliano le Madonie , è stato possibile raccogliere almeno due anemonimi di origine toponimica in ciascuno dei centri indagati. Mediante lo …