Search results for " urban regeneration"

Augmented City : a Paradigm Shift

2017

Augmented City is a spatial/cultural/social/economic platform for enhancing our contemporary life, individual and collective, informal and institutional. If we live and act in a reality permanently improved by hard and soft devices, our cities must be more responsive to our behavioral changes. In incoming Neo-Anthropocene cities are " vibrant organisms of space and community, of data and information, of sensors and actuators, of actions and reactions, of urban/rural metabolism generated by people and environment both.

Planning the Neocosmopolitan Habitat

2021

Reflecting on cosmopolitanism is a philosophical activity before it is a political, social or—as far as we are concerned—urban planning action. It requires a deep reflection on the meaning of being connected to a place and also to the whole world, of being individuals and also related to a planetary community and to the consequences of our inhabitation of the Earth (and the Cosmos). Nature, like us humans, is not made up of things in and of themselves, but of an entanglement of relationships and events, of evolutionary processes that take place in time and space. And even our cities do not escape this universal law: everything is correlation, flow, openness, vibration. In short, cosmopolita…

Creative Cities in Italy: new scenarios and projects

2013

Reflections on and experimentation with urban creativity as a competitive factor put together in recent years, starting with the works of Florida and Landry, gave rise to further theoretical/operative reflections aimed at providing a greater territorial dimension to the creative city, lessening the rhetorical character and increasing that of the concrete effects on the quality of life. In 2007 my book “Creative City: Dynamics, Innovations, Actions” identified the need for concrete evolution and pointed out the factors that make it possible for urban creativity to become a launch pad for new economies and a creative force for new cities and not simply an attractive force for intellectual res…

Understanding the impact of the EU-led urban initiatives on city-making: evidences from the case of Palermo (Italy)

Southern Italy – the “Italian Mezzogiorno” – is recognised as one of the most controversial case for regional development in the European Union (Leonardi, 2005; Piattoni and Polverari, 2016). Within this broad geographical unit, home of around one third of the country’s population, after thirty years from the reform of the structural funds that in 1988 reshaped Cohesion policy, large regions such as Campania and Sicily have never changed their status of ‘less developed regions’. Major urban areas within these regions, therefore, reflect – and to some extent are an expression of – all the development questions the EU’s regional policy has aimed to address from the beginning: infrastructures …

Before web-marketing: digital tour landscapes from relational users

2016

Online visibility of a cultural site can be considered a strong indicator of the institutional ability to activate the cultural heritage. With the spread of the Internet into social practices of millions of people, the search for contents relating to a travel destination or a specific monument, has gradually shifted in terms of strategic influence from traditional channels to online information resources. The public opinion on the quality of cultural heritages or events depends less and less from the assessment of traditional agencies and it is instead increasingly dependent on user reviews and rankings based on social network sharing activities.

Editorial

2023

The article is an introduction to a special issue entitled "A spotlight on Italian cities: urban change, governance and planning", which reflects different ways urban questions can arise in the Italian cities and the many directions can be given to urban policy under the impulse of municipalities and local stakeholders.

The Resilience Revolution

2018

In the Anthropocene Age the world population is growing at a considerable rate. How long nature will be able to keep us with this growth is the main challenge for us, as citizens and planners. Climate change, water scarcity, pollution, broken urban cycles, and rising prices for resources show at an increasing rate that nature’s abilities are not inexhaustible. A resilience-oriented city, therefore, must have insight into its own metabolism. When we look at planning and managing cities as organism with their own metabolisms it becomes clear that city and nature are not separate entities. Cities use nature as their supplier of fuel, food, resource materials, and water, and nature also absorbs…

Reimagining Urbanism. Creative, Smart and Green Cities for the Changing Times

2014

We live in a world of cities, where more than half of the population lives and works in urban settlements, whether dense or sprawled, metropolitan or networked, expanding or shrinking. The city plays a major role in the Urban Age as habitat – the U.S. and Europe are close to 80% – not only as development growth machine, driver of communities’ evolution and dynamism, but bearing the responsibility to generate innovative lifestyles, more sustainable smart and creative, and to be the reformer of its own development pattern. The exhibition curated by Richard Burdett in 2007 at the Tate Modern on Global Cities showed us a world where cities produce more than 50% of global GDP, consume 90% of glo…

Urban Collage

2018

Il contributo propone una riflessione progettuale, elaborata durante il workshop internazionale “Hong Kong – Palermo. Fluid cities”, sulla rigenerazione del waterfront centrale della città di Palermo, approfondendo l’area dell’antico quartiere della Kalsa. Come una membrana porosa, tramite osmosi, il progetto contaminerà la città generando nuovi cluster culturali: il ‘Cultural Hub’ (l’epicentro); il ‘Food Cultural District’ (la Vucciria); il ‘Living Lab/Residenza per artisti’ (l’attuale Palazzo delle Finanze).

I luoghi periferici in cui si abilita intelligenza collettiva

2019

Nelle periferie urbane in cui coesistono ampi margini alla modificazione, un surplus di spazi interstiziali e marginali, negli ultimi anni si sta dispiegando la proliferazione di esperienze che aprono il campo a un diverso modo di trasformare le città, in una sorta di resilienza locale alla crisi e al conseguente vuoto di welfare sociale. Uno sguardo alle pratiche in corso sembra indicare una tendenza a spostare l'asset di sviluppo dalla patrimonializzazione immobiliare ad una economia della conoscenza, in cui i beni dismessi si offrano come piattaforme abilitanti dell'azione collettiva, dispositivi spaziali in cui incanalare l'innovazione attraverso il riciclo. Se il Piano Periferie promos…