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Some morfologiacal effects related to a non uniform uplifting of crustal blocks in Northern Sicily (central Mediterranean)
2010
Lina Bo Bardi: Unbuilt in Sicily
2017
In August 1940 the magazine ‘Domus’, in a special issue dedicated to the “casa al mare”, publishes the project of the “Casa sul mare di Sicilia” by Lina Bo Bardi and Carlo Pagani. It is one of the first projects of Lina Bo, an utopian project whose representations indicate a way of proceedings that coagulates theory and imagination conceived as indissoluble relationship of “doing”. Add to the ‘unconventional’ drawings of the project, plans, perspectives and perspective section, indicating a very personal way in using of graphic language, we can find a synthesis’ drawing that underlines how the representation is intended both as an extension of the mind, and as order structure of a speech. I…
New data on the Upper Triassic reefs of Western Sicily: stratigraphic constraints for the paleogeographic reconstruction of the Sicanian and Trapanes…
2005
Dal rettifilo alla croce: l'apertura di strada Maqueda a Palermo
2015
Sino a questo momento la realizzazione della strada Maqueda è stato oggetto quasi esclusivamente di interpretazioni critiche che ne hanno correttamente sottolineato la valenza simbolica, soprattutto con riferimento alla ostentazione di quella croce espressione di un cattolicesimo fattosi sempre più ortodosso e oltranzista; poco si è detto, invece, sugli aspetti legati ai processi di costruzione materiale di questo spazio urbano, alle operazioni correlate all’apertura per sventramento, nel tessuto denso e compatto di una delle principali città mediterranee, di una arteria stradale lunga quasi 1 chilometro e mezzo e larga oltre 11 metri, un rettifilo che all’anno 1600 costituiva nel panorama …
Osservazioni sulla urbanistica di Alesa
2017
Some observations on the structure of the urban plan of Alesa are presented, trying to frame it in the context of the colonial urbanism of the classical age in Sicily
The VFR Phenomenon in Italy
2015
The collection is the first book to explore research on visiting friends and relatives (VFR). In assembling an international collection of quality VFR-related research the editors present the profiles, characteristics, opportunities and behaviours of VFR travel for the benefit of researchers, industry practitioners and educators. This chapter discusses the characteristics of the phenomenon in Italy, by analysing official data as well as data drawn from purpose research.
Cooperation in Rural Areas as a Local System Development Opportunity
2017
The development of rural areas requires the adoption of technology innovation and market approach strategies without departing from the specific features of local production systems, such as agricultural practices and the wealth of knowledge of operators. It is even better the exploitation of these resources to characterize the competitive positioning of territorial systems. In this framework, the cooperative Rinascita, which works in an internal rural area of Sicily region (Southern Italy), represents an attempt to maintain agricultural activities, traditions and rural culture as well as to promote and contribute to the development of the area by giving value to and promoting, a typical lo…
Addenda et emendanda to the "A catalogue of plants growing in Sicily"
2009
Corrections and integrations to the “A Catalogue of the plants growing in Sicily” by Giardina & al. (2007) are here reported. In particular, several disregarded taxa have been added and updated together with new other ones described or reported simultaneously or subsequently to the date of publication of the Catalogue. Finally nomenclature of some taxa has been updated and a new taxonomic status has been proposed for two of them.
Endangered plant species of Marettimo Island (Sicily, Italy)
2014
I Ventimiglia e le arti decorative a Lascari
2016
Il saggio, attraverso l'analisi di inedite fonti archivistiche, delinea la committenza di alcuni membri della famiglia Ventimiglia per Lascari e la sua chiesa parrocchiale dalla fine del XVII secolo ai primi decenni del XIX. Gli esponenti della nobile stirpe per la realizzazione di tali opere, alcune delle quali ancora custodite, si rivolgevano perlopiù ad artisti palermitani, tra cui l'abile marmorario Domenico Magri. The essay, through the analysis of unpublished archival sources, outlines the patronage of some members of the Ventimiglia family for Lascari and its parish church from the end of the 17th century to the first decades of the 19th century. The exponents of the noble lineage fo…