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PRINCIPI CONCETTI E METODOLOGIE DELLA RIGENERAZIONE RESILIENTE

2021

The idea of regeneration is the one that best adheres to an inclusive practice of architecture, capable of accepting the continuous change, made of adaptations and contradictions of the built environment we have been given, and of processing its inputs. We can certainly start from an established awareness, that the success of regeneration projects is strongly related to the ability to govern the processes of which they are part. These concepts and actions are at the basis of every regeneration intervention and of the urban transformation modalities that it brings to the built environment, including the new complex elements of the socio-economic processes taking place in the contemporary wor…

Resilient design regenerative design built environment technological designSettore ICAR/12 - Tecnologia Dell'Architettura
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Forms and Processes of Settlement Pressure on Natural Systems

2021

The process of urbanisation is considered one of the most significant anthropic alterations of the environmental framework, and the present study attempts to understand the spatial characteristics of urban growth and their impacts on envi- ronmental components in two metropolitan areas of Sicily. Such rapid and unplanned urbanisation in Sicily has increased during the last three decades causing severe pres- sure on various natural resources. In this situation, the level of fragmentation and isolation of natural areas risks becoming worse. The question assumes a particular relevance in those local territorial portions, such as some urban and periurban areas, presenting relevant conditions of…

Settlement Processes Natural Systems Settlement PressureSettore ICAR/20 - Tecnica E Pianificazione UrbanisticaGeographyUrbanizationRegional planningUrban sprawlContext (language use)Settore ICAR/21 - UrbanisticaMetropolitan areaNatural resourceEnvironmental planningBuilt environmentNatural (archaeology)
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Sine cura. Verso il ri-ciclo dell'architettura del secondo Novecento

2019

Gli argomenti discussi nel saggio interrogano il destino che il Codice dei Beni Culturali (2004- 2011) determina per le opere del secondo Novecento. Nella costruzione del futuro di questi manufatti, che per funzione, tecnologia e cicli d’uso sono spesso segnati dall’obsolescenza e dall’abbandono, le ambiguità e le incongruenze delle attuali procedure legislative sollecitano profondamente il ruolo culturale delle esperienze di ricerca che usano metodologie meta progettuali. Il confronto fra alcuni casi italiani ed altri europei rimarca il ruolo del progetto nella costruzione di una prospettiva di tutela trasformativa per il costruito del secondo Novecento. Nel quadro di azione marcato dall’o…

Settore ICAR/14 - Composizione Architettonica E UrbanaThe essay questions the future's possibilities to operate on the buildings of the second half of the twentieth century according to the Italian Code of Cultural Heritage (2004-2011). When arguing how to encourage the re-use of these artifacts which are often marked by short-life technology cycles obsolescence and abandonment the ambiguities and inconsistencies of current legislative procedures deeply stress the cultural role of research experiences that use project-oriented methodologies. The comparison between some Italian and other European cases highlights the role of a design approach in the construction of a transformative protection perspective for the built matter of the second half of the twentieth century. In a framework aiming to encourage a reconciliation between the recent built environment and the new paradigms of sustainability and circular economy architecture must recognize re-cycle practices as a main theoretical and procedural node. To modernize the late Modern built environment with contemporary construction components is not simply a matter of technical knowledge and expertise: but a theme with theoretical density aesthetic and ethical values. The architectural project in this field today must ask for greater congruence between the bureaucratic and administrative levels and the real consistency of this corpus. It is a matter of identifying strategies to equip it with capabilities meanings and contents remembering that demolition wastes have unsustainable environmental costs and uncertain results concerning the necessary new attribution of political and semantic meaning that these places await.
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Self-Efficacy, Planning, or a Combination of Both? A Longitudinal Experimental Study Comparing Effects of Three Interventions on Adolescents’ Body Fat

2016

Author(s): Luszczynska, Aleksandra; Hagger, Martin S; Banik, Anna; Horodyska, Karolina; Knoll, Nina; Scholz, Urte | Abstract: BackgroundThe superiority of an intervention combining two sets of theory-based behavior change techniques targeting planning and self-efficacy over an intervention targeting planning only or self-efficacy only has rarely been investigated.PurposeWe compared the influence of self-efficacy, planning, and self-efficacy+planning interventions with an education-based control condition on adolescents' body fat, assuming mediating effects of respective social cognitive variables and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA). The moderating role of the built environment…

Social CognitionMalePsychological interventionSocial Scienceslcsh:MedicineBiochemistryFats0302 clinical medicineSociologyMedicine and Health SciencesPsychologyMedicinePublic and Occupational HealthLongitudinal Studiesadolescents030212 general & internal medicineBuilt Environmentlcsh:Scienceta515PediatricSchoolsMultidisciplinary10093 Institute of Psychologyta3141Behavior change methodsCognitionModerationLipidsTerrestrial EnvironmentsSports ScienceSelf Efficacybody fatAdipose TissueFemale0305 other medical scienceself-efficacySocial cognitive theoryResearch ArticleClinical psychologySocial PsychologyAdolescentGeneral Science & Technology1100 General Agricultural and Biological SciencesHealth PromotionomatoimisuusEducation03 medical and health sciences1300 General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular BiologyClinical ResearchSocial cognitionIntervention (counseling)Behavioral and Social ScienceHumansSports and Exercise MedicineExerciseSelf-efficacyBehavior1000 Multidisciplinary030505 public healthbusiness.industryPreventionEcology and Environmental Scienceslcsh:RCognitive PsychologyBiology and Life SciencesPhysical ActivityPhysical FitnessAge GroupsPeople and PlacesCognitive SciencePopulation Groupingslcsh:Qplanning150 PsychologybusinessNeurosciencePLOS ONE
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Built environments and inherited landscapes: culture, signs and bionimetic models of the resilient city / Ambienti costruiti e paesaggi ereditati: cu…

2018

La cultura è "memoria ereditaria di una collettività ed esprime un sistema determinato di segni e di modelli". Vi sono segni e modelli materiali e immateriali finalizzati alla comprensione e all’interpretazione di un determinato ambiente costruito. Gli ambienti costruiti “ereditati” sono la scena di trasformazioni culturali e storiche eterogenee e sono formati da un numero illimitato di segni e di modelli in reciproca connessione e “interferenza”. Tra le forme dello spazio naturale e quelle dello spazio costruito c’è materialmente una aggregazione. Talora questa aggregazione è coesa mentre altre volte risulta discordante. Molti paesaggi ereditati sono caratterizzati da una incompatibilità p…

Technology Bionimetic Built Environment Environmental DesignSettore ICAR/12 - Tecnologia Dell'Architettura
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“Unauthorized building” as a factor of crisi. Analysis, strategies and plans for sustainable development - L’edificato abusivo come fattore di recess…

2011

Abstract. Come invertire la rotta della svendita indiscriminata del territorio? Quale sviluppo promuovere in accordo con le esigenze ambientali ed economiche? Con l’obiettivo di porre le basi di un effettivo superamento delle criticità determinate da abuso o uso improprio del costruito, l’Università di Palermo ha promosso: il Progetto APRAE (Analisi, Prevenzione e Recupero dell’Abusivismo Edilizio), il Progetto HERA (Habitat Edilizia Recupero Ambiente) e il Progetto Egeo_Med sorto dalla virtuosa collaborazione con il Ministero della Cultura Ellenico (Grecia). Le ricerche hanno ap- profondito da una parte la struttura fenomenologica dell’abusivismo e gli squilibri apportati al «sistema abita…

Tecnologia Recupero Riquali cazione Tutela Valorizzazioneunauthorized building built environment environmental technology.Settore ICAR/12 - Tecnologia Dell'Architettura
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La Seconda Vita dell'Ambiente Costruito

2021

Il contributo inquadra i saggi, gli studi, le ricerche e progetti pubblicati sul numero 9 di AGATHÓN su ‘La Seconda Vita dell’Ambiente Costruito’, tema di interesse per il mondo accademico, delle professioni e dell’industria. Cambiamenti climatici, eccessivo consumo di suolo e di risorse non rinnovabili, produzione sempre crescente di rifiuti, emergenza pandemica e crisi socio-economica globale sono entrati di fatto nel nostro quotidiano: seppur drammatiche, per certi versi, tali questioni possono essere colte come un’opportunità per ripensare il modo e il mondo in cui viviamo. In questo contesto di ‘rivoluzione’(Floridi, 2020) e di ‘policrisi’ (Losasso, 2020), e con riferimento specifico a…

The contribution frames the essays studies research and projects published in issue 9 of AGATHÓN on ‘The SecondLife of the Built Environment’ an interesting topic for universities businesses and industry. Climate changes excessive use of soil renewable resources ever-increasing production of waste the current pandemic emergency and the global socio-economic crisis have in fact entered our daily life. Even if these are tragic issues they can be somehow seized as an opportunity to rethink the way we live and our world. In this ‘revolutionary’ (Floridi 2020) and ‘polycrisis’ (Losasso 2020) context specifically referring to the building industry the Academy the Research and Industry worlds are called to give answers – based on sustainability and the principles of the Green Deal but also and mostly of the new Bauhaus – that can encourage reconsiderations and re-orientations of processes and products new projects on places buildings objects and materials able to positively affect the governance of the global change that our planet and humanity need able to give a ‘new life’ to the built and/or transformed environment at any scaleSettore ICAR/12 - Tecnologia Dell'Architettura
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Estimating the occurrence of traffic accidents near school locations: A case study from Valencia (Spain) including several approaches

2019

Traffic safety around school locations is a topic of particular interest given the large number of vulnerable users, such as pedestrians or cyclists, that commute to them at certain times of the day. A dataset of traffic accidents recorded in Valencia (Spain) during 2014 and 2015 is analyzed in order to estimate the effects that school locations produce on traffic risk within their surroundings. The four typologies of school in this city according to the academic levels they offer (All-level, Preschool, Primary, Secondary) are distinguished and taken into consideration for the analysis. Two time windows comprising the starting time in the morning and the evening time once day school has end…

Time FactorsEveningPoison controlHuman Factors and ErgonomicsLogistic regressionOccupational safety and health0502 economics and businessStatisticsInjury preventionCovariateHumans0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesBuilt EnvironmentChildSafety Risk Reliability and QualitySocioeconomic status050107 human factorsSpatial Analysis050210 logistics & transportationSchools05 social sciencesAccidents TrafficPublic Health Environmental and Occupational HealthHuman factors and ergonomicsLogistic ModelsGeographySpainCase-Control StudiesAccident Analysis & Prevention
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Il tempo sospeso del processo interrotto: oltre la rimozione, un futuro per l’incompiuto

2020

Gli esiti di processi edilizi interrotti sono ascrivibili a una categoria di ambiente costruito anomala, che offre un banco di prova importante per la progettazione tecnologica dell’architettura. Infatti, il finalismo incentrato sul conseguimento di obiettivi e la visione lineare del tempo entrano in crisi a fronte di costruzioni il cui ciclo di vita non ha mai preso avvio, irriducibilmente estranee al presente e il cui futuro è controverso. Il fenomeno bipolare dell’incompiuto offre il quadro a interpretazioni dei suoi legami con la variabile tempo, intesa come fattore di trasformazione e perno del progetto architettonico. Considerandone la diffusione e l’evoluzione, si può delineare per l…

Time VariableUnfinished BuildingTechnological Design of ArchitectureBuilding ProceBuilt EnvironmentSettore ICAR/12 - Tecnologia Dell'Architettura
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Changes in physical activity domains during the transition out of high school: Psychosocial and environmental correlates

2015

Background:This study examined changes in multiple physical activity domains during the transition out of high school and psychosocial and environmental determinants of these changes.Methods:A 1-year prospective study was designed. The baseline sample was composed of 244 last-year high school students (58.6% female) from Valencia, Spain. Follow-up rate was 46%. Physical activity and potential determinants were measured by the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire and other evaluated scales in 2 waves.Results:Total physical activity and active commuting (AC) decreased, respectively, by 21% and 36%, only in males. At time 1, access to car/motorbike (inverse), planning/psychosocial barriers (…

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