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Dissesto idrogeologico e urban eco-planning. Una proposta per contrastare la fragilità del territorio urbano di Agrigento
2017
I più recenti fenomeni naturali calamitosi che hanno interessato l’Italia si sono verificati in concomitanza di anomali cambiamenti climatici la cui causa è il riscaldamento globale. Il V rapporto dell’IPCC 2014 afferma che il global warming è determinato dalle attività antropiche. A livello mondiale, l’Italia è realmente minacciato dalla “desertificazione” per circa 1/5 del territorio nazionale, soprattutto al Sud: la Sicilia con una percentuale del 70% risulta, in tal senso, la regione più a rischio (“Convegno sulla siccità”, CNR per Expo 2015). Con l’innalzamento delle temperature si ha una diminuzione delle precipitazioni e un aumento dell’intensità delle stesse con pericolo di dissesto…
Arquitectura y desarrollo urbano. Notas sobre el ensanche de Valencia de 1884
2014
[EN] The city development of Valencia, after its walls were demolished, starts in 1884 with the Enlargement Project by the architects José Calvo Tomás, Luis Ferreres Soler and Joaquín MªArnau Miramón. These three architects were members with number of Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos and they left important buildings on the new streets created according to alignments designed in the project. A significant work of architecture, later increased with another brilliant contributions, as those of Carlos Carbonell, Jose Mª Manuel Cortina, Francisco Mora or Javier Goerlich, which forms a new urban landscape of cosmopolitan stamp with main two Grandes Vías. All this characterizes nineteenth…
RIGENERAZIONE DI CITTADINE RURALI MEDIANTE IL TURISMO SOSTENIBILE: UN MODELLO DI VALUTAZIONE
2017
Rehabilitation of ancient towns poses special questions because of the existing complex physical and social ties that can be properly integrated in decisions on sustainable urban planning by multi-criteria evaluations. This work proposes a description model aiding actions and decisions for the rehabilitation of historic centres through tourism development in Sicilian hinterland areas. The decision problem concerns the town of Cianciana, which in recent years has been appreciated by strangers who stay on this town to live with the local inhabitants. Despite this international attention, at present, the town is undergoing local’s depopulation, gentrification and economic crisis. The proposed …
Management of the image of the city in urban planning: experimental methodologies in the colour plan of the Egadi Islands
2022
AbstractThe debate over the value of the image of a city, which since the 1960s has been gaining wider room for reflection, has arisen as a criticism against the reductionism of the Modern Movement and highlighted the value of the qualitative aspects of an urban landscape. The question asked is if urban planning can in some way govern the image of a city. An investigation into which tools and strategies are necessary to defend the narrative of a city, its identity and its genius loci against the homologating forces that are transforming contemporary cities. The article explores the theoretical principles and methods being experimentally used to qualitatively manage the urban environment. Re…
Una lettura urbana su Balestrate. Realtà intermedia e nuove possibili centralità
2014
This work was developed at the “R-Lab” project, a workshop that was experimentally promoted by the University of Palermo (teachers, students and researchers) during the academic years 2010-11 and 2011-12. Workshop participants collected and elaborated analysis and proposals in an interdisciplinary and multi-level way (PhD, degree thesis, co-financed research) with lessons, seminars and applied research. Prof. F. Maggio coordinated the section that was titled “Analysis of the smaller towns in Sicily”, and we worked with him within an agreement that was signed with the local administration of Balestrate, a small coastal town in the northwestern Sicily. Our work focuses on some issues of the t…
The Reshaping of the City-Port Interface in Palermo: A Case of Successful Urban Governance?
2023
In the last decades, various port cities in western countries have developed policies to make shipping activities more compatible with the urban environment and organization. This paper provides a critical interpretation of the process that is leading to the regeneration of the waterfront area of Palermo, the Italian fifth largest city by population. In a first part of the paper the events and economic factors that have negatively impacted on the city-port spatial relations are outlined. Subsequently, in the light of the new governance relations established between the city and port authorities, the strategy and main interventions of the port masterplan that is currently reshaping the city-…
The Resilience of the Valley of Temples Among Natural Calamities and Social Disaster
2017
Preservation of the cultural heritage, intended as common patrimony, is a cultural achievement that in territories like Sicily, which has often suffered the lack of legality, is the result of a difficult process of implementation. Cultural heritage is not ruined exclusively by natural calamities: damages caused by social and cultural disasters may at times be even more devastating. The archeological park of Agrigento, born in 1947 after a natural disaster (a landslide in 1944), hides a history of a half century of battles between the illegal land use and legislative measures to protect a cultural heritage recognized worldwide (registered in the WHL in 1997). After fifty years of attacks aga…
Art and the city. A meeting on the border
2019
The essay departs from the ancient greek myth of Prometheus, symbolizing the idea of progress and the passage of man from a state of nature to a state of artifice, in order to critics the modern perspective of “unlimited growth”, brought about by hyper-liberalist capitalism. It contextualizes this prometheian-like dynamics of “rushing into modernity” within the phenomena of implosion and explosion of cities today. A post urban / post rural kingdom where man seems to have abandoned the notion of territory, contemplated as a resource to be exploited only, as a result of the breaking down of the co-evolutionary relationship between human settlement, nature and work. Against this pessimistic ta…
Gestión del cuerpo y planificación urbana: Desplazamiento de significado en la reivención de cuepos y ciudades
2020
Contemporary cities have administrations increasingly marked by urban planning guidelines that are guided by business and marketing and, to attract investments and tourists, implement strategies that aim to homogenize, spectacularize and control urban space. However, other experiences in the city potentially build new meaning to it, which would escape those strategically planned, creating alternative possibilities of uses, diverging from the way thar are predicted and proposed by the governmental power in their urban marketing strategies. The article discusses how the occupation of urban spaces by transvestites for prostitution may imply reflections on the role of norms of gender in the (re…
Between Public and Private. The house as a Primary Good for the Social City
2017
Ferdinando Trapani esamina le condizioni più strutturali del social housing, con riferimenti certi di teoria urbanistica di livello internazionale, ma con solidi principi di scelta pianificatoria nel complesso tema del risparmio del suolo. If we wish to study welfare states, we must begin with a set of criteria that define their role in society. This role is certainly not to spend or tax; nor is necessarily that of creating equality. It is generally believed that welfare-state backlash movements, tax revolts and roll backs are ignited when social expenditure burdens become too heavy. Anti welfare state backlash sentiments over the past decade have generally been weakest where welfare spendi…