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The Covid-19 containment effects of public health measures:A spatial difference-in-differences approach
2021
Abstract The paper studies the containment effects of public health measures to curb the spread of Covid‐19 during the first wave of the pandemic in spring 2020 in Germany. To identify the effects of six compound sets of public health measures, we employ a spatial difference‐in‐differences approach. We find that contact restrictions, mandatory wearing of face masks and closure of schools substantially contributed to flattening the infection curve. The significance of the impact of restaurant closure does not prove to be robust. No incremental effect is evidenced for closure of establishments and the shutdown of nonessential retail stores.
Mapping the Idea of Europe : Cultural Production of Border Imaginaries through Heritage
2021
In contrast to recent reinforcements of Europe's internal and external borders due to the refugee situation on the Mediterranean and the Covid-19 outbreak, talk of European borders has in the past decades focused on the freedom of mobility guaranteed by the Schengen treaty. In many senses, free intra-European mobility has become a recited truth in the EU discourse: a phrase that hides under its repetition the gap between its implied content and empirical realities of many of those who are affected by European borders’ exclusive tendencies. Through the concept of borderscape, this article focuses on the role that cultural products – especially maps exhibited at heritage sites – have in recit…
Ernesto Basile e le Esposizioni Agricole Siciliane dei primi anni del ‘900
2020
In 1891 the IV Italian National Exposition was held in Palermo, the first to have a southern city as its protagonist. The area on which the pavilions were built, obtained from the expropriation of the land belonging to the Prince of Villafranca, lent itself from the following year to accommodate the housing development and new buildings to complete the Via della Libertà, a high-bourgeois boulevard that already in 1850, by cutting the same "Firriato" of the Villafranca family, had marked the expansion towards the north of the city and seen the construction of the first buildings on its eastern front. Ernesto Basile was one of the main designers of the event and future urban creations. Althou…
Innovation Policies for Regional Structural Change: Combining Actor-Based and System-Based Strategies
2018
This chapter analyses opportunities and challenges for regional innovation policies designed to promote new path development in different types of regional innovation systems (RISs). RISs differ enormously in their capacity to develop new growth paths due to pronounced differences in endogenous potentials and varying abilities to attract and absorb exogenous sources for new path development. We distinguish between different types of regional industrial path development, which reflect various degrees of radicalness of regional structural change. The chapter offers a conceptual analysis of conditions and influences that enable and constrain new path development in different types of RISs and …
Combined Innovation Policy: Linking Scientific and Practical Knowledge in Innovation Systems
2012
New research indicates that firms combining the science-based STI (Science, Technology, Innovation) and the experience-based DUI (Doing, Using, Interacting) modes of innovation are more efficient when it comes to improving innovation capacity and competitiveness. With regard to innovation policy, the STI mode calls for a supply driven policy, typically aimed to commercialise research results. The DUI mode suggests a demand driven policy approach, such as supporting the development of new products or services to specific markets. This paper analyses how the two types of innovation policy and the two innovation modes can be combined in regional innovation systems. The analysis builds on studi…
Cities as Enablers of Innovation
2018
The relationship between cities and innovation in present times can be regarded from a distinctive perspective. As it is vital to rethink our development patterns, in order to contrast global warming and its ominous threats, cities are themselves concrete materials for innovation. Therefore, cities challenge the very same concept of innovation by adding the long-term perspective to its social assessment framework. Cities are therefore seen both as hotbeds of creativity and innovative culture and places where different actors (policy makers, civil servants, NGOs, citizens, start-uppers, entrepreneurs, etc.) receive continuous stimuli to engage in innovations that fulfil specific needs (be th…
Análisis de la función de los espacios culturales en la redefinición de las políticas culturales de las ciudades. Un estudio de los casos de las área…
2021
Esta tesis aborda la relación entre los espacios culturales y las políticas culturales, específicamente en el ámbito urbano. Concretamente, en este proyecto de investigación argumentamos, en primer lugar, que las políticas culturales urbanas y las políticas de creación de espacios culturales están regidas por una misma lógica se articulan en un todo funcional al paradigma dominante de política cultural (en la que los espacios culturales son a la vez derivada y condición del modelo de democratización cultural). En segundo lugar, sostenemos que los espacios culturales son la clave de bóveda de las políticas de democratización cultural, en tanto que constituyen la herramienta principal de su m…
Zonas de morfología urbana: Coberturas del suelo y demografía
2013
Los trabajos sobre áreas urbanas tropiezan con la dificultad de delimitar con cierta precisión el alcance de las mismas. No existe un consenso entre los estudiosos de los procesos de urbanización sobre la manera de definirlas y, en consecuencia, hay varias alternativas. La mayoría de tipologías utilizan criterios demográficos, ya sean de carácter absoluto o relativo. Este informe aborda el problema de la delimitación de áreas urbanas desde un enfoque totalmente diferente: a partir de las recientes bases de ocupación del suelo. En el informe que ahora se presenta se definen las zonas de morfología urbana (UMZ) desde este último enfoque, estableciendo como urbano aquellas superficies fundamen…
Thermal remote sensing of urban areas : the case study of the urban heat island of Madrid
2013
L'illa de calor urbana (ICU) és un dels exemples de la modificació del clima local que implica el procés d'urbanització. I es defineix com la diferència de temperatura entre la zona urbana i la zona rural que l'envolta. Es pot definir-se a distints nivells atmosfèrics, depenent si la temperatura de l'aire es pren dins de la capa dosser urbana (CDU) o si es fa en la capa límit urbana (CLU). No obstant això, quan s'utilitza la teledetecció tèrmica per a quantificar i seguir l'evolució del fenomen, l'ICU es defineix a nivell de superfície (ICU de superfície, ICUS) i es mesura com la diferència entre la temperatura de la superfície del terra (TST) de la zona urbana i la TST de la zona no urbana…