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Working on the "dark place" of southern European metropolitan cities. An analysis of informal practices and critique on approaches of public housing …
2018
The debate on housing practices of self-help mainly focalizes on Southern countries of the world, while in the Northern countries informal practices are still marginal or neglected compared to their proactive roles that could play in reframing public policies. Although this phenomenon has been recently re-evaluated in Europe, especially as antagonism between legality and illegality and rights, the housing practices of self-help could be a promising approach to solve housing deprivation in many metropolitan cities where the gap of income between rich and poor is keener. However, in Italy and in other European countries, squatters are illegal persons and therefore it becomes more complicated …
Digital Business Value Creation with Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in Northern and Central Europe
2018
In the rapidly changing global economy, robotics process automation (rpa) became one of the most important and fastest growing concepts. Digital value co-creation within service businesses and networks, sets value for end customer experience within more efficient operations, focusing on core business development with the use of modern technology. This pilot study approaches the topic from the practical perspective, presenting the results of empirical work conducted with experts working at the Intelligent Automation unit at one of the leading Nordic providers of financial and accounting services. It is examining the RPA transformation from the perspective of its impact on resourcing, operati…
Deliberate and Emergent Changes on a Way Towards Electronic Document Management
2011
A unit of Fortum Service Ltd. operates and maintains the Rauhalahti power plant in Central Finland. In 1996-97, the unit launched a project pursuing coordinated organizationwide electronic document management (EDM). This case follows deliberate and emergent changes related to document management in the organization since the initiation of the project until February 2000. New information technologies were adopted, and responsibilities for continuous improvement of EDM were assigned. The continuous improvement was implemented as an extension of the ISO 9002 quality system earlier adopted for process improvement. The case shows that a shift from the paper-based era towards organizationwide EDM…
Valuing the unmarketable: an ecological approach to the externalities estimate in fishing activities
2013
In a rapidly changing world, sustainability, if it can be said to exist at all, is concept that has attained mythic status, often pursued and rarely reached. In order to improve our capability to cope with environmental problems, adopting an Ecosystem Approach has been suggested. One of the major challenges in the implementation of this new paradigm relates to control of externalities. The recognition and quantification of externalities is often cast as valuing the unmarketable, and there are several approaches that have been proposed. Here, we analyze the opportunity to “feed” the economic valuation with ecological concepts. From an ecological perspective, the energy required to sustain a …
BRAZILIAN SOCIAL HOUSING POLICY: TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
2013
In the last decade, Brazil passed through several political and economic reforms that led to significant social changes, among which the reduction of the levels of inequality and extreme poverty. Nowadays considered one of the emerging economies, the country seeks to solidify its position through wide strategies aimed to propose decisive initiatives for a balanced social development, which are deeply affecting local architecture and urban planning. In this scenario social housing design has become, since the last decade, the mirror of a national policy that is implementing robust strategies to achieve high levels of growth. The paper provides an overview of the upgrades achieved in the fiel…
Politiche di social housing sostenibile in Brasile
2012
A partire dagli anni '90, a seguito di alcuni processi di liberalizzazione dell'economia, il Brasile ha attraversato una serie di cicli macroeconomici che hanno portato a una sua rapida crescita e alla stabilizzazione dell’economia interna, concausa, tra le altre cose, di significativi cambiamenti sociali, come un crescente consolidamento della democrazia e un significativo aumento della partecipazione della popolazione civile nel monitoraggio della politica pubblica, anche in relazione alle trasformazioni urbane e architettoniche del suo territorio. Cosciente dei rischi ambientali che il settore edilizio può comportare, in termini soprattutto di emissioni di gas serra e di uso del suolo, i…
The use of vegetation for social housing renovations: A case study in the City of Palermo
2013
The paper shows the first results of a research carried out at the University of Palermo, which aims to indentify sustainable strategies for the renovation of social housing in the Mediterranean Basin, with focus on the use of vegetation as strategy for the enhancement of urban microclimate and thermal comfort. To achieve these goals the social housing complex of Medaglie d’Oro in the city of Palermo was chosen as case study in order to carry out some analyses for the assessment of outdoor comfort parameters of the area. By means of numerical simulations performed with the software ENVI-met, the actual state of the area was evaluated and four scenarios of renovation strategies through the i…
Il quartiere Cappuccinelli a Trapani: per un intervento di retrofit sostenibile attraverso l’uso della vegetazione
2018
La riduzione del consumo di energia primaria e delle emissioni di CO2 nell’aria sono due obiettivi chiave delle politiche internazionali, come dimostrato dagli standard sempre più restrittivi in tema di efficienza energetica degli edifici. Il settore edilizio è considerato, infatti, uno dei più importanti settori strategici al fine di raggiungere questi due obiettivi e per questa ragione le politiche energetiche a livello globale si stanno indirizzando sempre più nella promozione di strategie finalizzate alla regolamentazione della sua efficienza attraverso il progetto di edifici sostenibili. L’articolo intende dimostrare, tramite la presentazione di un caso studio, l’efficacia e la complem…
La vegetazione per la rigenerazione della città: possibili scenari a Palermo
2014
L’articolo illustra i primi risultati di una ricerca finalizzata ad indagare le ripercussioni derivabili dall’impiego della vegetazione per la riqualificazione energetica dei quartieri di edilizia residenziale pubblica di Palermo. Alla luce dei benefici ambientali e sociali, da più studi dimostrati, che derivano dalla presenza della vegetazione in aree urbane, si è messa a punto una metodologia di indagine finalizzata al progetto degli interventi possibili per il retrofit degli edifici, che consente di valutare gli effetti della vegetazione sia alla scala edilizia che urbana, fornendo dati certi circa la validità delle soluzioni già ampiamente adottate dall’architettura della tradizione med…
Eco-Quartieri: Strategie di progetto per trasformare l'habitat
2012
The evolution of thought on environmental issues has imposed to anyone involved in construction a leap in scale today we combine the study of rational use of energy at the building scale, through innovative technologies integrated in to building, strategies and technologies for the microurbana scale. While it is true that the indications given to insiders have, first, reported only possible actions on the building (Directive 2002/91/CE) is not to forget the request, of the European union, of planning interventions at urban scale. It is in consideration to this that the theme of the Eco-neighborhoods should be studied as formality of employment of the energies in urban context, to model a ne…