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Identity in First and Second Generation Migrants Belonging to a Tunisian Community in Mazara del Vallo (Sicily)
2015
In Sicily, the increasing presence of immigrants has given the society an important challenge which has also required the adoption of an intercultural view and intervention designed to deepen the needs of migrants. Immigrants living in Sicily are distributed above all in coastal areas. The most numerous migrant communities come from Romania, Tunisia and Morocco. In the province of Trapani, the presence of foreigners reflects the regional distribution with migrants from Romania, Tunisia and Morocco. However, a different distribution of the population has been recorded in Mazara del Vallo, a small town in the province of Trapani, where a Tunisian community justifies the prevalence of Tunisian…
Destination Governance at Stake: Fostering Policy Coordination Among Decision-Makers of a Small Town
2018
This research aims to foster small-town decision-makers’ awareness of policy coordination as a central issue in either implementing collaborative governance and designing tourism development policies. To this end, a System Dynamics-based Interactive Learning Environment (ILE) has been designed with the intent of challenging decision-makers to increase tourism in the small town, while managing trade-offs among individualistic vs. collaborative behaviour. The action research took place in Castelbuono, a small tourism destination in Sicily (Italy). Three major decision-makers were involved: the mayor of the town, the museum’s director, and a restaurant owner. The use of the ILE has enabled dec…
Abitare la transizione nei Centri minori in Sicilia
2023
The proposal aims to develop concrete experience on possible ways of living from a framework of national and international references on the theme of the Social Housing Community to define a specific methodology on strategies to be tested on the theme of residence temporary in small towns in Sicily. The provision of minimum and adequate space for short and long periods of welcome is thus intended for new temporary residents (returning young people, migrant families, the elderly, travellers in transit) which can also be used to meet the needs of migrants, under the public direction of the municipal administration. The issue of residency is back in the disciplinary debate after the health eme…
Valledolmo 2030: la città che cura
2022
The small towns can become the places to reactivate the rural areas of our country through essential factors starting from the natural and cultural heritage, from social inclusion, from psycho-physical well-being, helping to reverse the unstoppable phenomenon of the flight of young people. The current Covid-19 emergency has revealed the crucial role of health, not only in terms of health facilities, but also in new ways to feel better, spend more free time outdoors, eat healthily and boost the economies of Local communities. It is in this context that the research-action project of the research group and the LabCity Architecture degree laboratory aims to investigate the theme of the city th…
Quel "mezzo pollice" di materia
2012
Il capitolo contiene una riflessione sul ruolo delle superfici architettoniche nei monumenti e nei contesti antichi. Nel tentativo di tracciare l'evoluzione del concetto di restauro fino all'indirizzo attuale, il contributo richiama, tra gli altri, il pensiero di John Ruskin e Alois Riegl, che hanno evidenziato il valore di autenticità e rimarcato il ruolo delle superfici nella percezione dell'architettura storica, contestando i restauri distruttivi in corso in molte città (come il restauro della Basilica di San Marco a Venezia). This chapter includes a reflection on the role of architectural surfaces in monuments and ancient contexts. In attempt to trace the evolution of the concept of res…
Sabratha. A guide to the studies and investigations of the past 50 years
2017
This volume, not a simple archaeological guide, adds to the description of the monuments and museums of Sabratha also some reflections on general themes as sculpture, urban developement, religious architecture, civic and domestic buildings, paintings and mosaics of the punico-hellenistic, Roman and Christian Sabratha. It also gives account of the researches of the Archaeological Mission of the Palermo University, directed by the late Professor Nicola Bonacasa, and it includes the contribution of external scholars, which very recently published some monuments of great interest.
Indagini nell'area ad ovest del Tempio della Vittoria ad Himera
2021
Himera: New investigations in the area West of the Tempio della Vittoria · The University of Palermo has started a new cycle of field investigations in the “lower town” of Himera, with the aim of answering some questions about the relationships between the Tempio della Vittoria, the residential districts, and the agora, that remained to be clarified after the important results produced by the studies on the urban development of the Greek city over the past forty years. This paper presents some initial results and research perspectives from the first excavation soundings and geophysical survey of 2021. The first findings strongly suggest that the agora extended much further south than previo…
Attraversamento trasversale Torre dell’Orsa - Aeroporto - Statale - Cinisi
2014
Lʼarea a sud-est dellʼaeroporto di Palermo è in rapida trasformazione: le espansioni edilizie di Cinisi e Villagrazia di Carini si sono saldate in una “campagna urbanizzata” continua, nel 2001 è stato inaugurato il tratto di metropolitana di Palermo che da Piraineto giunge a Punta Raisi con fermata intermedia “Tonnara Orsa”, la Società di gestione dellʼaeroporto Falcone-Borsellino (Gesap) ha previsto la realizzazione di un nuovo ingresso a sud dellʼaeroporto in corrispondenza del fuso racchiuso fra lʼautostrada A29 e la linea ferroviaria, a sud-ovest dello svincolo autostradale di Villagrazia di Carini, in località Bosco Tagliato, sorgerà un centro commerciale. I cambiamenti in atto e le ce…
Projects as a paradigm of the extisting places
2018
Architectural projects and descriptive texts of some significant works by G.F. Tuzzolino and A. Margagliotta. The project, then, requires a capacity to read system and relations, considering that even a fragment has the power to reveal the constitutive reasons of a more complex spatial system. The project of the new finds its reasons in the understanding of the system, taking as fundamental operation in the reading of what exists, to then continue what must exist; some interventions in small towns of Sicily describe this attention which proceeds by understanding the spatial meanings and the linguistic values of existing spaces, the interference with current living needs and contemporary des…
Giuseppe Samonà e la “spina dorsale” di Gibellina Nuova
2020
Nel 1970 Giuseppe Samonà coordina il gruppo di progettazione formato da Vittorio Gregotti, Gianni Pirrone e Alberto Samonà per il Progetto del Centro civico, commerciale e culturale di Gibellina Nuova. Del piano è realizzato il municipio e poi, rielaborato e in altro luogo, il teatro. I monumenti, fondati su un asse pedonale in quota connesso a un suolo artificiale articolato, esprimono l’unità architettura – urbanistica e anticipano, per certi versi, una riflessione successiva del Direttore dello IUAV sulla dialettica fra urbano e rurale.