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Cities and their effects on free-living and host-associated microbes
2023
Mikrobit ovat oleellisen tärkeitä elämälle maapallolla, ja niitä esiintyy vapaina ympäristössä tai isäntäorganismeissa tukien ekosysteemien ja/tai isäntien normaalia toimintaa. Ihminen vaikuttaa lähes kaikkiin planeettamme elinympäristöihin aiheuttaen niiden häviämistä ja huonontumista (mukaan lukien kaupunkien rakentaminen) sekä ympäristöjen saastumista ja ilmastonmuutosta. Mikrobiyhteisöjen (kutsutaan myös mikrobiotaksi, mukaan lukien bakteerit ja sienet) odotetaan reagoivan näihin ihmisen aiheuttamiin valintapaineisiin sopeutumalla muuttuvaan ympäristöön. Siten ihmisen aiheuttamat muutokset ympäristössä voivat muovata mikrobiyhteisöjä (sekä vapaasti eläviä että isäntiin liittyviä) muutta…
LUNGOMARE
2015
SEAFRONT Most coastal cities and towns have a seafront that is regarded as of special importance. Some are just as famous as the towns where they are found. However, assessing any urban seafront entails a reflection on the relationship between the sea and the town. In the Mediterranean, the connection between coastal towns and the sea has been a difficult and ambiguous one. The universal flood myth, which we find across cultures and in ancient legends, albeit with certain variations, attests to it. In such legends, the destruction of the world by the fury of the seas and oceans is total, save for the plants and animals of every species, as well as for a few righteous human beings. Hence, it…
Inquadramento generale
2015
Il saggio tratta il tema dello stato dell'arte delle smart city attraverso una disamina puntuale dei progetti europei più eloquenti. Smart city inteso anche come processo condiviso per rafforzare il senso di appartenenza alla comunità, promuovendo ambienti partecipativi e democratici. Il coordinamento delle iniziative a livello locale è sicuramente un'altro aspetto importante per favorire una maggiore integrazione nel portafoglio di iniziative. L'evoluzione del concetto di smart city è modellata da un complesso mix di tecnologie, fattori sociali ed economici, meccanismi di governance e driver diversi: l'attuazione del percorso smart city segue percorsi molto vari a seconda degli obiettivi, …
Security in Modern Smart Cities: An Information Technology Perspective
2019
In a big and modern city, the security system is not a single-layered single module system. Instead, it consists of many layers with autonomous subsystems which are capable of interfacing reciprocally in an efficient and coordinated way horizontally and vertically. The design of such indigenous subsystems and ensuring tight interaction between them while taking into account high usability and resource utilization is not a simple task. In this regard, this article provides a comprehensive overview of the security systems in smart cities. We begin by introducing trends and key stakeholders in smart cities. Next, we provide examples of mass surveillance systems in developed countries like the …
Monastères et espace urbain au haut Moyen Âge
2012
In both episcopal cities studied here, Auxerre and Autun, in Burgundy, the sites chosen for the establishment of monasteries can be partly determined by their functions, more or less restrictive. The most frequent in the cities are communities of monks settled in the seventh-eighth centuries to serve a funerary basilica or a tomb. This function involves an extra muros situation whatever the age of the foundation of the basilica. Inside the cities, truly monasteries, that is to say, communities of ascetics, are few; these are located outside the walls, but, although isolated from the city by the rampart, these remain in contact with it by symbolic functions. Unlike that is attested in Autun …
Palermo habitat multi-specie. Per un'integrazione fra uomo, natura e animali nella città neocosmopolita
2021
Le città sono per molti versi habitat cosmopoliti perché ospitano una grande varietà umana, animale e vegetale. Così come in natura la biodiversità è più ricca laddove maggiore è l’eterogeneità ambientale, anche nei contesti antropizzati si verifica lo stesso fenomeno (Mainardi, 2016). Parchi, edifici, campanili, insenature offrono una pluralità di habitat e spazi per altre specie che coesistono con l’uomo da sempre e si sovrappongono agli spazi di vita degli esseri umani, dando vita a dinamiche di convivenza (non sempre pacifica) multi-specifiche. L’attuale situazione pandemica ha generato le condizioni per cui la nostra specie ha potuto osservare nuovamente le altre che la circondano, ani…
Music Cities. Estrategias para el desarrollo de la economía de la música
2016
El concepto de Music City está adquiriendo relevancia paralelamente al interés sobre el impacto económico de la cultura, especialmente del sector musical comercial, y su creciente importancia en la planificación urbanística. Con la política local y regional postcrisis en el punto de mira, la gestión cultural apoyada en una investigación apropiada posibilita el desarrollo de una estrategia musical que aproveche los recursos creativos e industriales del territorio. Coordinando a las instituciones públicas, la iniciativa privada y la ciudadanía, esta especialización estratégica genera beneficios transversales para la ciudad, aumentando también su atractivo para visitantes y residentes. The con…
Comparing the morphology of urban patterns in Europe
2004
The sprawling urban patterns typical for the outskirts of many europen metropolitan areas seem to be amorphous and it is difficult to find references for describing them. However, for managing sprawl it seems important to have quantitative descriptors, which allow distinguishing different types of urban patterns and which are less ambiguous than traditional density measures. a better knowledge of these patterns should also point to the underlying context of urbanisation at their root. More concretely: to what extent are planned patterns different from less planned ones? Do planned or unplanned patterns show comparable morphological features?
Od przyjaźni nakazanej do współpracy partnerskiej: kontakty Wrocławia i Drezna w ramach współpracy miast na przestrzeni siedemdziesięciu lat
2017
The article shows the evolution of the contacts between Wrocław and Dresden within the framework of city partnership agreements against the background of the general state of Polish-German relations. It also mentions activities taken as part of the second Wrocław-Wiesbaden partnership. Since the 1950s, there have been formal and extremely limited contacts between the authorities and political organozations of Dresden and Wrocław. With the passage of time and, above all, after the political changes in Poland and Germany and the signing of the Polish-German border treaty of 1990 and the Good Neighbourhood and Friendly Cooperation Agreement of 1991, these contacts have become more universal, t…
La domus Augusta in Sicilia: dame imperiali nel paesaggio urbano della prima provincia
2018
The paper deals with the sculptural images of the Iulio-Claudian princesses that were found in SIcily,. Beside iconography, the statuary types, associations and contexts of the portraits are treated, in order to understand the meanings and the role of the honors payed to the domus Augusta by the cities of Roman Sicily in shaping the new cultural landscape of the province after Augustus.