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Towards the urbanisation of the Med sea: MSP challenges and opportunities for floating cities between utopia and reality

2023

Anthropogenic climate change effects push us to reimagine human life on the planet confronting extreme living conditions. Droughts, risk of submersion and flooding, saline intrusion, and land scarcity lead to more inhospitable life conditions on land. These demanding risks have led governments to envisage the displacement from the coasts of some cities at significant risk or to think of new settlements for human life, such as floating cities. Floating offshore settlements, reminiscent of the XXth-century architectural utopias, are gaining more and more popularity in contemporary debate and are, in fact, emerging realities in other parts of the globe due to advanced technology. Floating sett…

Mediterranean Futuredesign

2020

The Mediterranean cities must regain the richness of their counterpoint, but they must also know how to find new “agreements” to generate a new harmony of the city. Even in the city we must find new agreements between living spaces that produce in turn new types of space, intervals of functions, intervals of vegetation, cultural or social intervals that enrich urban polyphony, between agreements and counterpoints. Designing the cosmopolitan city is therefore an opportunity to discuss and design a model of future that includes the history and memory of crossings, hybridizations, mixtures, metamorphoses in a comprehensive project.

Influence of Geographical Area and Living Setting on Children's Weight Status, Motor Coordination, and Physical Activity

2022

This study was aimed (i) to examine the effect of living setting (rural vs. urban), geographical area (North vs. Center vs. South), and gender (boys vs. girls) on weight status, motor coordination, and physical activity (PA) level of Italian school-age children; (ii) to examine differences in the neighborhood walkability of different school areas from different geographical areas and living settings; and (iii) to examine whether motor coordination, PA level, geographical areas, living setting, neighborhood walkability, and gender could predict children's weight status. We assessed anthropometric parameters, gross motor coordination, and PA level in 1,549 children aged between 8 and 13 years…

High-speed rail and French cities

2011

Transportation choices in French cities : high-speed rail ; streetcars and bicycles

2011

Una rigenerazione smart per i centri storici: da Smart Cities a Smart Heritage

2013

What is the relationship between contemporary cities of virtual networks and stakeholders with the historical centers, places of cultural and social heritage? The transformation of global cities make you thing on the contemporary relationship between man and historic center. The European proposal of the Smart Cities responds to the human need of identification in the living spaces, focusing on the six smart parameters involving people in making cities. The article lays the foundation to recognize the historic city as factor of urban regeneration starting from the analysis of some Smart historic centers in Italy and of the world most successful. The aim is to propose new smart models for the…

Nuevas perspectivas de análisis para entender la migración cualificada del sur de Europa hacia México

2018

This article focuses on skilled migration flows from Southern Europe into Mexico. From semi-structured interviews with Spanish and Italian immigrants living in four Mexican cities of Mexico, it addresses both reasons for immigration and labour incorporation in Mexican labour markets. Specifically, it explores: i) the role of the economic crisis and the lack of good employment in the countries of origin as a key factor when deciding an international migration; ii) the employment opportunities offered in Mexican labour markets for the highly-skilled immigrants, and iii) the role played by the Mexican state and its current immigration law when channelling this group into the labour market

Smart Cities and a Stochastic Frontier Analysis: A Comparison among European Cities

2013

The level of interest in smart cities is growing, and the recent literature on this topic (Holland, 2008; Caragliu et al., 2009, Nijkamp et al., 2011 and Lombardi et al., 2012) identifies a number of factors that characterise a city as smart, such as economic development, environment, human capital, culture and leisure, and e-governance. Thus, the smartness concept is strictly linked to urban efficiency in a multifaceted way. A seminal research for European policy conducted by Giffinger et al. (2007) defines a smart city on the basis of several intangible indicators, such as a smart economy, smart mobility, smart environment, smart people, smart living, and smart governance. These authors’ …

URBAN PLANNING - NEW THEORETICS APPROACHES

2012

Cities as well as their neighborhoods undergoes a continous changing process, as an effect of economic, politic evolutions and of the social structure criteria change. The new city aim is to ensure continuity in the cycle of human activities, respectively among housing, jobs, recreation. In the period of economic crisis, cities can have a key role, by exploit of their innovative and integrativ potential, may open up new opportunities for implementing structural reforms and for faster adapting to the economic and social realities in change. The study refers to the new outlook of the urbanism concept determined by the economic and political evolution of society and it make reference to some m…

Building transformative capacity towards active sustainable transport in urban areas – Experiences from local actions in Finland

2022

Recent research has recognised cycling and walking (active transport) as substantial elements contributing to sustainable mobility and public health challenges. There is less knowledge available on the integrated contributions of local-level governance processes and practical implementation of active transport promotion activities. To illustrate comprehensively the contributions of local-level activities, we defined a framework presenting transformative capacity towards active sustainable transport. The framework presents the essential elements and criteria in assessing the level of contributions towards active and sustainable mobility. Previous literature and a case study in six Finnish mu…