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Roman Sicily. Cities and territories between monumentalization and economy, crisis and development

2018

This volume is the result of a collaboration between the two Universities of Palermo and Göttingen, who have been cooperating for a decade, implementing an intense exchange of experiences in the field of teaching and research, as part of the double degree in master's degree in archeology. We took the opportunity to study some aspects of archaeological research on Roman Sicily, after twenty years of intense activity on the island both by Italian universities and several foreign universities. The title of the seminar with its binary terms, city and territory, monumentalization and economy, crisis and development, aims to reflect the complexity of the situation of the island in Roman times.

Smart cities and the role of IS research in improving urban life

2016

A Legal Analysis of the Platform Economy

2018

this chapter aims at identifying the emerging legal issues stemming from the advent of the sharing-oriented platform economy, in order to categorize the wide array of competing and sometimes conflicting aspects that regulators should be considering when facing these new innovative practices. The chapter first describes how the advent of the platform economy challenges the current legal framework, at both local and global level; then, it addresses the main legal issues related to market regulation; in its second and final part, it analyzes those aspects of the sharing-oriented platform economy that go beyond market regulation, in order to categorize different models of platform economy and t…

Una anàlisi jurídica de l’economia de plataforma

2019

this chapter aims at identifying the emerging legal issues stemming from the advent of the sharing-oriented platform economy, in order to categorize the wide array of competing and sometimes conflicting aspects that regulators should be considering when facing these new innovative practices. The chapter first describes how the advent of the platform economy challenges the current legal framework, at both local and global level; then, it addresses the main legal issues related to market regulation; in its second and final part, it analyzes those aspects of the sharing-oriented platform economy that go beyond market regulation, in order to categorize different models of platform economy and t…

PATRIMONIO MILITARE E PROGETTI DI RIGENERAZIONE URBANA. L’INFRASTRUTTURA BELLICA DELL’ATLANTIC WALL E DI SAINT-NAZAIRE

2013

Nel 2010, la base sottomarina di Saint-Nazaire è stata dichiarata «patrimonio del XX secolo» dal Ministère de la Culture et de la Communnication francese ed è divenuta il simbolo di un nuovo approccio patrimoniale che riconosce il patrimonio materiale e immateriale in tutte le sue forme, non limitandosi soltanto al manufatto certificato come monumento. La memoria, i beni materiali o i luoghi poco conosciuti possono così contribuire a definire una nuova dimensione urbana, che si relaziona al futuro. Riferirsi esplicitamente al tema del rapporto tra waterfornt e patrimoinio militare, attraverso l’esempio di Saint-Nazaire, ci porta a riflettere sul ruolo del progetto urbano nella trasformazion…

Génèse et évolution des compétences des élèves à la fin de l'école maternelle : éléments d'analyse à partir de données de panel et d'une expérimentat…

2012

We propose to study in this thesis, a key issue and relatively little discussed in the French research in educational sciences, it concerns the genesis of pupil learning and their evolution during the tuition. We mobilize a longitudinal data (Panel 1997) and the results of a musical experimentation in kindergarten to answer to these questions: How are structured the first acquisitions of pupils and how is it linked to the school context and socio-economic variables? How the cognitive abilities of students affect their academic performance? Are specific activities can improve academic skills through an increase in cognitive abilities? Implicative analysis conducted on panel data has revealed…

Cibo, turismo, città

2020

In many contemporary urban realities, entire areas of the historic center have been transformed into open-air restaurants. Thanks to pedestrianization, tourism, foodification and any other neologism that wants to try to capture their dynamics, the places of food consumption have multiplied, while the traditional restaurant has exploded, leaving room for a myriad of catering formats – some almost exclusively used tourists, others dedicated to the lunch break, others still aimed at self-styled gourmands. We are witnessing a generalization of the logic of franchising, which aims at the staging of typicality according to different configurations to be focused here, adopting a sociosemiotic lens.

Dal tavolo alla città (e ritorno)

2021

Restaurants transform themselves over time and at the same time they transform their relationship with the city, the practices of food consumption, and convivial rituals of everyday life. We will investigate these phenomena starting from the table, a key element of any restaurant activity. The table has to be considered here as a "political" device, an instrument for the prefiguration and shaping of convivial relations. Our exploration will start from the zero degree of the restaurant, in its most traditional manifestation, and then will be extended to the different forms of food consumption that we can experience today in our cities.

Asymmetry in inter-municipal cooperation in health services - How does it affect service quality and autonomy?

2021

Throughout Europe, local health services are increasingly being provided through various forms of inter-municipal cooperation (IMC). One of the most common forms of IMC is when small municipalities delegate the operational responsibility for providing health services to a larger host municipality. However, despite the size asymmetry usually inherent in this type of IMC, this aspect has largely been neglected in the existing literature, which mainly focuses on the size of individual municipalities. Based on data from 97 partner municipalities and 25 host municipalities in Norway, this study examines how varying degrees of size asymmetry between them affect the perceived service quality and l…

IoT monitoring of urban tree ecosystem services: Possibilities and challenges

2020

Urban green infrastructure plays an increasingly significant role in sustainable urban development planning as it provides important regulating and cultural ecosystem services. Monitoring of such dynamic and complex systems requires technological solutions which provide easy data collection, processing, and utilization at affordable costs. To meet these challenges a pilot study was conducted using a network of wireless, low cost, and multiparameter monitoring devices, which operate using Internet of Things (IoT) technology, to provide real-time monitoring of regulatory ecosystem services in the form of meaningful indicators for both human health and environmental policies. The pilot study w…