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Mediterranean Futuredesign
2020
The Mediterranean cities must regain the richness of their counterpoint, but they must also know how to find new “agreements” to generate a new harmony of the city. Even in the city we must find new agreements between living spaces that produce in turn new types of space, intervals of functions, intervals of vegetation, cultural or social intervals that enrich urban polyphony, between agreements and counterpoints. Designing the cosmopolitan city is therefore an opportunity to discuss and design a model of future that includes the history and memory of crossings, hybridizations, mixtures, metamorphoses in a comprehensive project.
Urban growth (1956-2012) and soil sealing in the metropolitan area of Valencia (Eastern Spain)
2019
[EN] The aim of this study is to understand the urban growth dynamics from the mid-1950s to 2012 in the Metropolitan Area of Valencia, eastern Spain, and its impact on soils. The study area is a very interesting example of the many changes in land use and land cover in the landscape of Mediterranean alluvial plains. The analysis of urban growth was based on photo interpretation of aerial photographs and GIS based methodology. At a detailed scale (1:10,000), results show that there has been a highly dynamic process produced by the extent of land developed as urban area. In 1956 only 3,441 hectares (9.3% of the overall study area) were occupied by urban use. In 2012 the total sealed surface w…
PALERMO 2030: The Mediterranean City in Transition
2019
The Mediterranean cities in particular, thanks to the concentration of complexity / diversity and multiplicity are the most suitable places to start a transition so as to turn the contradictions of the urban system into an opportunity for transformation. The process of knowledge based on the observation of the cities becomes fundamental in a context such as that of Palermo, which is characterized by growing levels of complexities and uncertainty. In this context a critical process has been initiated just to recognize the city of Palermo and its main characters. Starting from this process several priority elements and different alternatives have been identified with continuous reviewing just…