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Il restauro del moderno: la centrale termoelettrica di Giuseppe Samonà, Augusta (SR)
2014
Negli anni Sessanta, l’industria elettrica era la forza motrice del processo di industrializzazione in Sicilia. La centrale termoelettrica di Augusta fu la prima grande opera a lanciare lo sviluppo dell’isola, partendo dalla costa sudorientale. Nel 1956, l’incarico della sua progettazione fu assegnato a Giuseppe Samonà, uno dei più importanti architetti italiani del XX secolo, a quell’epoca preside dello IUAV. La centrale, adesso dismessa, che può considerarsi come un pregevole esempio di architettura industriale, si trova all’interno del polo petrolchimico di Augusta, in connessione diretta con il porto e la città. Si tratta di un luogo storicamente estremamente stratificato, in cui la cit…
Mining Landscapes in Sicily: Problems, Strategies and Perspectives
2015
Sicily has been characterised by a striking mining activity throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. It deeply changed the appearance of the internal areas of the Island, transforming natural and agricultural landscapes into industrial ones. When the extraction activities finally came to an end, the industrial landscape started to be regarded from another point of view, as a cultural and touristic value. However, mining landscape is today a wasted opportunity. Large parts of machines, railways and chimneys are disappearing due to carelessness and abandonment. Anyway, the crisis which is affecting Europe will eventually force us to look back at these territories as a possible resource to over…
Public provision versus private provision of industrial land: a hedonic approach
2005
Abstract This study examines the factors that explain the differences observed between the industrial land prices offered by the public sector and those offered by the private sector by means of estimating three hedonic pricing models. The results obtained show that location, defined as the distance to a highway, the distance to the city business district and the distance to the capital of the province, have an important impact on industrial land value. However, this impact is greater when private developers provide the land. Other variables considered, such as who is behind the provision of the industrial land, have an important impact on sale prices.
Varied response of underground and aboveground plant matter: functional diversity of three different vegetational types after translocation to reclai…
2019
The indicators of functional diversity are increasingly used to assess the conservation effectiveness of the most valuable habitats. However, little is known about the response of functional traits, their diversity, and divergence in plant communities after translocation. To assess how functional diversity changes on dry heath, meadow, and fen after translocation of entire turfs of vegetation from an airport area to the Botanical Garden in Radzionkow, we used leaf–height–seed (LHS) traits (specific leaf area, height, and seed mass) and vegetative traits (bud bank size, bud bank depth, and lateral spread). We also measured community weighted means and multifunctional diversity metrics (funct…
Rapid change in forms of inorganic nitrogen in soil and moderate weed invasion following translocation of wet meadows to reclaimed post‐industrial la…
2019
Anthropogenic expansion and loss of natural environments calls for the more sustainable use of resources, including land. To combine the conservation of highly valuable meadow habitat with reclamation of post‐industrial land, 1.3 ha of turf were translocated from an urban area to basins constructed near an abandoned quarry. In contrast to the usual method of choosing similar habitats as salvage sites, the selected quarry possessed different environmental properties to the meadows, challenging their acclimatisation. To evaluate the project, we monitored three meadows (Molinion caeruleae alliance) for three seasons: immediately before the transfer and for 2 years afterwards. We recorded veget…