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HISTORIC URBAN CENTERS. CONSTRUCTION CHARACTERS AND SEISMIC VULNERABILITY
2018
Parallelamente alla redazione di una micro-zonazione sismica che evidenzi le differenti risposte al sisma che i vari ambiti offrono in termini di amplificazione delle onde sismiche al suolo, in relazione alla stratigrafia e all’orografia del terreno, si rivela fondamentale conoscere e prevedere gli effetti di un sisma sul sistema urbano. È fondamentale quindi effettuare un’analisi del patrimonio costruito esistente al fine di conoscerne le caratteristiche, valutarne il livello di vulnerabilità ed individuare una scala di priorità di intervento, approfondendo in particolare l’indagine sui centri storici, contesti di particolare complessità, interesse storico e potenziale vulnerabilità. A par…
The urban rent in the multicultural city: retail shops, migrants and urban decline in the historic centre of Palermo
2020
La diffusione di nuove modalità di vendita al dettaglio, come gli shopping mall, i megastore e l’e-commerce, hanno modificato i tradizionali modelli localizzativi di immobili a destinazione commerciale, incidendo anche sulle connotazioni del tessuto urbano ed extraurbano e sulla distribuzione spaziale della rendita. Anche le zone centrali delle città hanno subito trasformazioni significative, che a volte si traducono in un vero e proprio declino, soprattutto in presenza di sistemi economici locali deboli e di mercati immobiliari in recessione. Una quota rilevante di immobili a destinazione commerciale può rimanere a lungo non utilizzata per eccesso di offerta sulla domanda, poiché a fronte …
Court of (In)Justice: public spaces as contested ground for equity and integration
2009
The urban rent in the multicultural city: retail shops, migrants and urban decline in the historic centre of Palermo [La rendita urbana nella città m…
2020
Changes in consumer shopping behavior and in retail spaces, such as shopping malls, department stores and e-commerce, have modified localization models of traditional retail shops, also affecting urban fabric and spatial distribution of urban rent. Even city centers have undergone significant transformations or even decline, especially if local economic system and real estate market are weak and recessionary. A significant amount of commercial properties may have long vacancy due to excess supply, since many traditional shops close their business because they are no longer competitive and, moreover, there is no immediate takeover by new tenants. The decline of central urban areas depends on…
New Inhabitants for the Re-use of Historical Territories in South-Eastern Sicily
2021
In spite of the multifaceted criticalities that characterise the Sicilian territory, South-Eastern Sicily appears to be of particular interest due to the active role that distinguishes it from the rest of the Island. The transformation processes taking place in South-Eastern Sicily, in fact, seem to be guided by new perspectives of sustainability, local development and good governance. The mix obtained from the extraordinary amount of tangible and intangible resources, from some favourable socio-cultural circumstances and from the creation of new transportation infrastructures, has contributed to promoting new forms of reuse of the historical building heritage by Italian and overseas invest…
Understanding the EU Urban Agenda from the margins of Europe: the case of Porto
2022
This research focuses on the EU regional policy and presents a critical analysis of its influence on the urban regeneration process in the Portuguese city of Porto. A particular attention was drawn to the city’s historic centre has been facing a diverse range of challenges and been the stage of different urban policies. Among the actions that have been implemented are two area-based interventions linked to the EU Cohesion Policy. The study allowed to put forward a series of consideration regarding the influence of EU initiatives in this southwestern European city and hopefully the insights resulting from it will not only help to understand local effects of EU instruments at the level of imp…
Rileggendo la città: le recenti trasformazioni del commercio a Catania
2016
This paper aims at scrutinizing the evolution of the retail sector and, consequently, of retailscapes in a Southern Italy city, Catania. Starting from the outputs of an empirical place-based research project carried out by the authors in the mid ’2000s, the work deepens the recent transformations occurred both in the central areas and in the suburbs, in order to explore the processes and dynamics – produced by and within the retail field – which have been shaping urban morphology and socio-economic functions in the last decade.
Architetture di Culotta e Leone nel centro storico di Cefalù: piano, progetto e attuazione
2016
Per gran parte del Novecento gli interventi architettonici nei contesti storici sono stati ricondotti entro i poli della conservazione e trasformazione. In Italia gli anni Ottanta hanno segnato una tappa decisiva nel percorso teorico, metodologico e operativo verso l’approccio richiesto dalle attuali e futuribili condizioni delle aree urbane di antico impianto: guidato da strategie a lungo termine; più responsabile; multiscalare e includente l’intera città contemporanea. L’esperienza di Culotta e Leone nel centro storico di Cefalù, pur costituendo un unicum per il loro ancoramento alla realtà sociale del luogo, fornisce un interessante esempio di continuità tra piano, progetto e attuaz…
Il progetto I-Access: implementare l'accessibilità nell'uso e nella conoscenza dei centri storici urbani
2021
This paper describes the INTERREG Italy-Malta 1/16 project, of which the Department of Architecture was the beneficiary. The proposal, in the disciplinary field of restoration, aims to create action-learning to be applied in the historic quarters of Palermo and Valletta by implementing an integrated, totally, interdisciplinary working method; it embraces the degree of physical accessibility (with the design of architectural interventions and the provision of technological-IT assistance tools for a smoother passage), and a cultural one, which is expressed via the 'networking' of virtual communication for areas that cannot be easily reached and in parallel educational action that works on ove…
Energy redevelopment of historical centres in the pursuance of the cost-effectiveness principle
2016
In historical centres the search for architectural and plant design solutions for the achievement of higher energy and environmental performances of buildings has to reconcile the preservation of the peculiarities of the building stock on the one hand and the economic efficiency of the interventions on the other one. The cost-effectiveness principle, which is adopted by European policies for the improvement of energy performances of the building stock, may be satisfied through the use of specific macro and micro-economic valuation models.