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AGRIGENTO SMART - Integration and sustainability in the regeneration of an urban public space. A case study.
2017
Agrigento, city of the Valley of the Temples, for a few decades it is only known for the "unauthorised development" (or sacco edilizio between the '50s and' 70s of the twentieth century). Today is trying to regain possession of those urban spaces subtracted from a foolish speculation, assigning to them a renewed urban and social connotation, beauty and utility, trying to heal some of the major wounds of the past. With the awareness that it is not a path easy, nor immediate. The issue of public space, and its renewed use today, assumes a crucial role in the process of urban regeneration. Our focus, of multidisciplinary approach, is aimed at the southern edge of the old town called "Square Ra…
Urban Resilience: A New Way to Live the Urban Space
2022
Since the dawn of the urban age, the issues and values of the urban settlement have varied considerably through the centuries, as well as the theory of ideal and perfect urban form, but the importance of urban spatial structure has never been erased. Nowadays, the city is still in the middle of our civilisation, but the relationships between nested socio-ecological systems are more complex because the human-environment interactions are not bidirectional. Last month news told us that the new coronavirus has not been the first case of a virus that skips the species, reaching up to man, but unlike other recent viruses it had been–and it still is–the first that after centuries has caused signif…
Il ruolo dello spazio pubblico nelle trasformazioni urbane
2018
In recent decades, important urban regeneration processes are changing the appearance of cities. The modern city, characterized by the spaces of industrial production, now renews its disused areas by introducing fast mobility systems, communication networks and mixed-use social spaces. It is a phenomenon in progress that renews the image of the contemporary city and allows its inhabitants to experiment with new styles of life.
PROPOSTA DI RIGENERAZIONE E GESTIONE DEGLI SPAZI PUBBLICI NELLA CITTÀ DI KOS, GRECIA
2021
The theme falls within the proposals of strategies, tools and forms of housing and urban regeneration and tackles the case of the city of Kos. There currently the recovery and the enhancement of public space in the city is being attempted, and specifically of those urban areas which have long suffered very strong exploitation pressure by private interests as a result of tourism.
Children's participatory budgets as a civic learning methodology. An exploratory study on the Spanish experience.
2021
International audience; The present research work aims to analyze, in an exploratory way, the main characteristics of child participatory budgets during 2019 in eight Spanish municipalities. The experiences of child budgeting are not well institutionalized. In general terms, when a participatory process is finished, all informational traces usually disappear. This study uses the comparative methodology with a theoretical framework based on Hart’s participation ladder and democratic civic participation. Three hypotheses have been generated and, among the main preliminary conclusions, it is highlighted that in all the cases analyzed the educational and civic training component prevails, in wh…
Comunità e spazio pubblico. Come generare la dimensione spaziale della democrazia
2021
The contribution addresses the issue of the spatial dimension of democracy in the neo-cosmopolitan city, also as an expression of the communities living in it. By highlighting the inequalities still present, which translate into marginality of communities and urban spaces, the contribution claims the importance of public space in the relations between community and city and proposes operational methods through project examples in the city of Palermo.
COSMOPOLITAN HABITAT WORKSHOP
2021
The Cosmopolitan Habitat workshop invites international PhD candidates, students, young scientists, academics, and urban planning and design professionals to discuss and reflect on the spatial dimension of migration, the different human cultures that increasingly characterize European cities, and new living spaces in the project area, the historic centre of Palermo. The students, together with young urban planning and design scientists, are asked to discover potentialities for Cosmopolitan Habitat in Palermo and design new future scenarios. The paper reports the outcomes of the workshop.
Erraticism and multicultural permeability of urban fabric in Palermo
2017
Interactions between physical and social space draw different urban dimensions, or cultural landscape mosaics, which constantly change and evolve. The shape of the city promotes or discourages multiculturalism and social relations. The latter, in turn, reverberate in the way in which urban space is used, not only to meet basic needs - dictated by reason of survival (housing, employment, and services for education, care, leisure, etc.), but also because the inhabitants are driven by the desire for happiness and the simultaneous meeting that Lefebvre described as the “individualization in socialization”. Migrants groups have historically inhabited the central areas of cities, initially approp…
I ‘graffi’ della protesta. Street art, barriere artificiali e forme di espressione del dissenso
2013
Street art is any art – specifically visual art – developed in public spaces. It can include traditional graffiti artwork, stencil, sculpture, sticker art, street poster art, video projection, guerrilla art, flash mobbing, wheatpasting, etc. Typically, the term is used to refer to unsanctioned or “prohibited” art, as opposed to institutional artistic initiatives. So, is it possible to speak about street art as a form of protest art? If so, what are the signs, texts, codes and practices through which graffiti, stencils and other forms of street art can serve as means to express opposition and dissent? The present paper aims at answering these questions at first through a general historic int…
Prymas Tysiąclecia w świetle współczesnych szkolnych podręczników historii
2020
The presented article shall discuss the school history education in the context of the persona of Primate Stefan Wyszyński. The article is not to analyze the image of the Polish cardinal in the digital web space, although it would comprise rich source material, but rather in the more traditional school textbooks which, however, are also available online as, e.g. PDF files.