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The urban and environmental building code as implementation tool
2014
The frame within which the work is placed refers to the actions necessary to achieve the objectives of the coverage of the consumption of energy from renewable sources compared to the gross final consumption, posed to Regions by 2020, and that can be implemented through various actions involving local gov-ernments including the revision of the Building Regulations municipalities in a sustainable view. Theseactions are increasingly being recognized as energy plan-ning tools for the territories where administrations have committed to the Euro-pean project Covenant of Mayors. The discussion shows how the adoption by the Regions of Guidelines for sustainable Municipal Building Regulations can b…
Normality against Sustainability - Mobility practices of well-to-do households
2016
By focusing on the daily and leisure mobility of well-to-do people in Finland, this study contributes to the discordant discussion on the sustainability of well-to-do consumers, whose consumption levels are relatively the highest, and concerns whether they are both aware of environmental matters and willing to pay for environmental protection. The interview analysis revealed that, despite general knowledge of environmental issues, sustainability is not relevant to daily practices, and the well-to-do studied here are not to any significant degree engaged in sustainable mobility practices, but in a complex organization of daily life. This study also shows that, while there is a shared underst…
Edifici Millennial, nuove macchine per abitare il tempo libero
2018
Il Market Hall, progettato dagli MVRDV a Rotterdam, può essere assunto come icona di un nuovo modo di concepire lo spazio ad uso collettivo. Si tratta infatti di un edificio polifunzionale, connesso ai servizi infrastrutturali della città, adibito non solo a mercato coperto, ma anche ad uso residenziale. Il complesso architettonico racchiude al suo interno un vero e proprio spazio pubblico dove intrattenere le persone durante il loro tempo libero. Il complesso programma funzionale, che connota queste nuove architetture, definisce un uso ibrido degli spazi, innovando l’edificio monofunzionale che ha contraddistinto le architetture del secolo scorso.
Rebuilding a cultural legacy in a New Town. Reshape physical and cultural continuity between Old and New Gibellina
2019
In one night the town of Gibellina was destroyed by the earthquake that hit the Belice Valley in January 1968. En- thusiastically embracing the urban theories/utopias that were on trend in the 1960s, with, however, excessive and in another site. The building of infrastructures, houses and services, albeit by means of goods conceived for a city meant to be a symbol of modernity, does not have be interpreted as a weay to donate life to a whole community. It was also necessary, indeed, to take into account issue like memory, the sense of belonging, the continuity of tra- ditions: it became necessary to construct a new identity. Therefore, under the visionary guidance of the mayor Ludovico Corr…
La città contemporanea e il territorio agricolo. Una relazione in continuo divenire
2014
Does the balanced relationship between the city and the country, typical of the birth of the urban centers and still existing in the eighteenth century, hold on until today? Can the relationship between the two parts be still considered an equal relationship? And again, can the “limits” of the contemporary city, with their residue of agricultural land be considered key points for the renaissance of a contemporary ecologically-oriented city? These are some questions underlying the research of which this paper presents the results. In order to answer these questions, this research has reflected on the transformation, over the centuries, of the relationship between town and country, on the mai…
Liberate the form. White concrete in the work of Álvaro Siza
2022
The study of the extensive work of Álvaro Siza Vieira allows relating the progressive linguistic innovation and the spatial experimentation of his architecture with the use of different constructive techniques and technologies. Assuming the white colour as the guiding thread of the discourse, the professional trajectory of Siza is traversed from its initial link with the Portuguese architectural tradition of the early twentieth century, until the current adoption of the constructive principles of the exposed concrete. The contribution puts in perspective some recent works of the Portuguese master, ordering and analyzing the projects with the aim of elucidating the underlying architectural p…
L’importanza della natura evolutiva dei contratti di fiume: il contesto Siciliano e il caso del Patto di Fiume Simeto
2020
L'articolo affronta il tema dei contratti di fiume in Sicilia. A partire dalla costruzione dello stato dell'arte e delle esperienze attualmente in corso, si pone in evidenza il vuoto normativo in materia e contestualmente la vivacità dei territori nella capacità aggregativa e di costruzioni di politiche. Viene assunto come caso di studio l'esperienza pilota del Patto di Fiume Simeto.
Normativa urbanistica e contratto preliminare
2015
The following article addresses the critical and controversial question concerning the invalidity of the transfer of immovable property not complying with urban planning regulation and the implication of this invalidity in the specific context of the preliminary contract. The paper comments an innovative and recent ruling of the Italian Supreme Court that proposes a crucial change in comparison with the previous decisions made in this matter. The most relevant aspect of the new Supreme Court's guideline, which makes this judgment a leading case, concerns the extension to preliminary contracts of nullity deriving from the conflict with urban planning regulations. This is an important revirem…
The impact of COVID-19 on alternative and local food systems and the potential for the sustainability transition: Insights from 13 countries
2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a major stress test for the agri-food system. While most research has analysed the impact of the pandemic on mainstream food systems, this article examines how alternative and local food systems (ALFS) in 13 countries responded in the first months of the crisis. Using primary and secondary data and combining the Multi-Level Perspective with social innovation approaches, we highlight the innovations and adaptations that emerged in ALFS, and how these changes have created or supported the sustainability transition in production and consumption systems. In particular, we show how the combination of social and technological innovation, greater citizen involvement,…
Future Development of an Energy-Efficient Electric Scooter Sharing System Based on a Stakeholder Analysis Method
2023
E-scooters as a new form of mobility are gaining more and more popularity. This popularity results from the flexibility of this mode of transport, but above all from the positive impact on the natural environment through the much higher energy efficiency of an e-scooter compared to a motor vehicle (according to the literature the rate is 2 km per kWh equivalent for a motor vehicle and the range is 90–100 km per kWh in the case of an e-scooter). This paper introduces a discussion on the future development of an energy-efficient electric scooter sharing system based on stakeholder analysis methods. The implementation of the e-scooter sharing system involves linking several areas of human acti…