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Luci e ombre sulla piazza. Cicliche trasformazioni di uno spazio pubblico
2010
Con questo articolo intendo mostrare quali possano essere le interazioni che intercorrono tra due elementi fondamentali dello spazio urbano, il suolo e l’illuminazione, nel definire il senso di un luogo. Generalmente considerate due presenze “ovvie”, quanto meno scarsamente problematiche se non a livello di mera funzionalità pratica (soprattutto nel caso della pavimentazione) in questo lavoro vengono considerate come elementi fondanti del funzionamento semiotico dello spazio urbano. Con l’esame di un caso, quello di un’importante piazza della città di Palermo, piazza Politeama, voglio dimostrare come le condizioni di illuminazione e l’organizzazione del suolo di un preciso luogo siano in gr…
Appropriazione e (ri)semantizzazione dello spazio urbano: lo sport in una piazza palermitana
2019
Il contributo, attraverso uno studio di campo, con un approccio geografico culturale esplora le modalità attraverso cui uno spazio urbano, piazza Vittorio Emanuele Orlando a Palermo, può essere oggetto di complessi processi di (ri)semantizzazione. La piazza diviene infatti luogo per sport giovanili improvvisati, al centro di dialettiche opposte (ufficialità/improvisazione) e di forme multistratificate di socialità e aggregazione.
The vegetation for mitigating the microclimate and designing livable and healthy public spaces in Palermo City Centre
2018
Urban morphology and increasing building density play a key role in the overall heat and energy balance of our cities. The urban environment and CO2 emissions resulting from human activities cause a local increase of temperature, a phenomenon known as Urban Heat Island (UHI). This is also due to the reduction of vegetation in urban areas. The benefits that green spaces have in urban planning have been widely acknowledged. In particular, in temperate and hot contexts, plants help to reduce the extreme summer temperatures, improving people’s outdoor and indoor thermal comfort and, at the same time, reducing the buildings’ energy demand for cooling. The way plants affect urban climates is gene…
Retorica dello spazio: il caso della street art
2014
La street art è un fenomeno capillare che si dispiega negli spazi urbani con stili e forme diverse. L’intervento prende in esame alcune operazioni artistiche analizzando le strategie retoriche utilizzate. Ricorrendo a diversi regimi di visibilità e utilizzando l’apostrofe, l’iperbole o ancora il camouflage gli artisti creano narrazioni imprevedibili e sollecitano continuamente l’attenzione del fruitore. Gli interventi di street art possono così considerarsi come campi di manovra che instaurano nello spazio urbano conflitti, sfide o complicità con i fruitori e in tal senso si rivela opportuno soffermarsi sui casi di riscrittura o di cancellazione delle opere.
Gestión del cuerpo y planificación urbana: Desplazamiento de significado en la reivención de cuepos y ciudades
2020
Contemporary cities have administrations increasingly marked by urban planning guidelines that are guided by business and marketing and, to attract investments and tourists, implement strategies that aim to homogenize, spectacularize and control urban space. However, other experiences in the city potentially build new meaning to it, which would escape those strategically planned, creating alternative possibilities of uses, diverging from the way thar are predicted and proposed by the governmental power in their urban marketing strategies. The article discusses how the occupation of urban spaces by transvestites for prostitution may imply reflections on the role of norms of gender in the (re…
Sabratha. La catacomba e le aree funerarie cristiane
2016
This paper starts from the processing of the data, both edited and acquired in 2010 by a series of dedicated surveys in Sabratha made by researchers at the University of Palermo, in collaboration whit the cnr itabc for the prin 2008 Project, carried out under the responsibility of Prof. Rosa Maria Carra Bonacasa. The researchers have made a preliminary study for an archaeological gis of Sabratha to gather informations on the monuments already studied, or under study, and to promote analysis regarding the riuse of space in the Regiones iii-v of Sabratha, after the destruction attribuited to the earthquake on 21th July 365. We present the results of the study on the Early Christian funerary a…
Mitologie dello street food (a partire da alcune pietanze siciliane).
2021
The article investigates the gastronomic universe of street food through two steps. The first is theoretical and highlights what are the founding semantic categories of street food with respect to other culinary worlds (home cooking, fast food, etc.) and, through this specifically relational point of view, also explains the transformations and inversions between systems of values that are in principle opposite. The idea is to conceive of street food not as some entity given from the outset but, on the contrary, as an effect od meaning of the social, media, gastronomic discourses that are made of it. The second passage is more empirical and is dedicated to Palermo's street food: chosen as a …
The urban design guidance for the unmanaged spaces under elevated expressways upon users’ preferences
2016
There are many bridges in the Iranian major cities. It is still proceeded for constructing new bridges in order to solve traffic problems. The spaces under bridges and the expectations of users are rarely important for city officials and designers. Hence, this research is looking for guidelines of designing the unmanaged spaces under city bridges considering the environmental preferences of users. The main goal of this research is to achieve urban design guideline for designing the unmanaged spaces under elevated expressways based on expectations of individuals. This research is based on theoretical studies in the field of urban design, under bridge spaces, unmanaged spaces as well as envir…
“Ephemeral” regeneration for the marginal urban spaces/places in Enna
2020
The aim of this paper it to demonstrate that the interventions of “ephemeral designing” - seen in the key of potential activators of shared forms of bottom-up urban regeneration - may be also read as sequence of pop-up actions (flames); but capable in conferring to the marginal urban spaces - even if temporarily - a “meta-real” shape of the desirable effects of that urban transformation they would to reach in a real implementation. By establishing, thereby, with both the city's communities and places, a true moment of local awareness and animation, fleeting but realistic, that can trigger interest and re-generate the sleeping collective activism, even before to regenerate the physical compo…