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Rebuilding a Cultural Legacy in a New Town. Reshape Physical and Cultural Continuity between Old and New Town of Gibellina
2019
In one night the town of Gibellina was destroyed by the earthquake that hit the Belice Valley in January 1968. Enthusiastically embracing the urban theories/utopias that were on trend in the 1960s, with, however, excessive and not realistic confidence, the city was rebuilt from scratch in another site. The building of infrastructures, houses and services, albeit by means of goods conceived for a city meant to be a symbol of modernity, does not have be interpreted as a weay to donate life to a whole community. It was also necessary, indeed, to take into account issue like memory, the sense of belonging, the continuity of traditions: it became necessary to construct a new identity. Therefore,…
Rebuilding a Cultural Legacy in a New Town. Reshape Physical and Cultural Continuity between Old and New Town of Gibellina
2019
The article analyses the emblematic case of the post-earthquake reconstruction of the city of Gibellina. In the present case, the reconstruction process has led to serious errors caused by numerous wrong choices; most of these derive from the fact that the cultural heritage expressed by the places and the population was not taken into consideration. To restore the threads of memory broken by the earthquake, a research was carried out – by the writer – aimed at the reconstruction of the image of the old Gibellina; the old city, definitively erased from the ground, has been recomposed through the interpretation of the cadastral and statistical data and literary, iconographic, cartographic and…
Gibellina: avanguardia di città cosmopolita
2021
Gibellina è città tellurica per orogenesi: rinasce dopo un drammatico terremoto e, con la sua peculiarità di città d’arte, produce un sisma che scuote le incrostazioni dell’urbanistica, facendosi avanguardia di una città aperta al mondo, ai mondi della cultura contemporanea: l’architettura, l’arte, il teatro. La sua storia si intreccia, anticipa e contiene altre storie urbanistiche siciliane, mediterranee ed europee. Per il piccolo centro rurale della Sicilia il terremoto ha segnato una netta frattura nella sua continuità storica: il sito originario è stato abbandonato e per gli abitanti superstiti è stata costruita ex novo un’altra città. Una città “altra”, aliena al contesto sociocultural…
Una visione ecologica del territorio
2014
This study stems from the theoretical principle that environment protection and conservation have evolved from a constraint-based approach aimed at designating protected areas, to an ecosystem-based approach intended to protect and preserve biodiversity. The said approach identifies the ecological networks as a possible solution to the need for an ecological-functional connection between natural and semi-natural areas and areas of cultural interest, with the ultimate aim of implementing widespread environment protection “covering” the whole territory. An ecological network can be understood either as a set of natural (or semi-natural) areas interconnected through linear infrastructure or, i…
Connected Lands : new perspectives on Ecological Networks Planning
2017
The construction of an ecological network is a fairly complex operation, given that the components to be considered are strictly linked to the age-old problem of the relationship between man and the land, until now perhaps seen too much as a limiting relationship and not, as the use of this tool suggests, as a relationship to be safeguarded. It may represent the ideal way to reconcile human needs and the conservation of biodiversity for the sustainable management of land. This study on the ecological network represents a tool capable to contain habitat fragmentation trough a new perspective that integrates theoretical approaches and methods with planning models and experiences of local appl…
Le reti ecologiche nella pianificazione territoriale ordinaria. Primo censimento nazionale degli strumenti a scala locale
2010
La pianificazione è un argomento vasto e complesso, che rappresenta per le politiche ambientali uno degli strumenti più importanti per l'individuazione di soluzioni idonee al miglioramento del rapporto uomo-territorio-risorse ambientali. Il tema generale dell'indagine è quello dell'inserimento di una pratica virtuosa in termini ambientali, le reti ecologiche, negli strumenti di pianificazione territoriale ordinari. Planning is a vast and complex subject, which represents for environmental policies one of the most important tools for the identification of suitable solutions to improve the relationship between man-territory and environmental resources. The general theme of the survey is the i…
CONNESSIONI ECOLOGICO-FUNZIONALI NEGLI STRUMENTI DI PIANIFICAZIONE: IL CASO DI VITORIA-GASTEIZ IN SPAGNA
2019
L’articolo si propone di indagare il tema delle connessioni ecologico-funzionali sotto il profilo del riconoscimento normativo all’interno degli strumenti di pianificazione. La questione, non adeguatamente affrontata dalla letteratura scientifica di riferimento in tema di reti ecologiche, diviene di nodale rilevanza nel processo di radicamento dei modelli ecologico-reticolari nei dispositivi che regolano le trasformazioni dell’uso del suolo. Il caso di Vitoria-Gasteiz, capoluogo del Pais Vasco in Spagna, appare significativo in tal senso in quanto, in seno ad un lungo percorso di costruzione del suo Anillo verde all’interno del piano urbanistico, riconosce sotto il profilo regolativo tali e…
Participative Planning Processes in the Absence of the (Public) Space of Democracy
2010
Abstract This article aims to investigate the role, limits and opportunities of participation programmes in a local political context where consensus-building and inclusionary practices are not high priorities. A public housing neighbourhood in Palermo is used as a case study in order to critically highlight the ambiguous role that participative practices tend to play in fragile contexts. The case study also highlights the need for some preconditions for effective participatory practices in planning. These preconditions are focused on Arendt's notion of the ‘space of democracy’. Some concepts developed by Hannah Arendt will be used to explain the necessity of these preconditions, and their …
Culture, communication and cooperation: the three Cs for a proactive creative city
2009
The network of European Union creative cities is a powerful new configuration of dynamic, innovative and action-oriented cities, able to transform the space using their network of cultural heritage and activities. From a vision in which the more competitive cities are those able to attract the creative class must go to a vision in which the city becomes generates creativity, presents itself as a powerful incubator of economies based on creativity, culture, research and artistic production. The cities will have to invest in the experience economy, strengthening their identity. The Creative City 3.0, therefore, is an active tension, that requires a long-term vision ability, and calls us to ac…
Urban Smartness: Perspectives Arising in the Periphéria Project
2012
The paper discusses the concept of “urban smartness” starting from the early results of the Peripheria Project. Peripheria is a 30-month pilot B action funded by the European Commission under the CIP ICT PSP Programme and it aims at deploying convergent Future Internet platforms and services for the promotion of sustainable lifestyles in and across emergent networks of “smart” peripheral cities in Europe. Peripheria develops the Living Lab premise of shifting technology R&D out of the laboratory and into the real world in a systemic blend of technological with social innovation. It defines five archetypical “Arenas”—specific urban settings or innovation playgrounds, with defined social feat…