Search results for "OPEN SPACE"
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Morphological similarities between DBM and a microeconomic model of sprawl
2010
JEL classification : C61; C63; D62; R21; R40; International audience; We present a model that simulates the growth of a metropolitan area on a 2D lattice. The model is dynamic and based on microeconomics. Households show preferences for nearby open spaces and neighbourhood density. They compete on the land market. They travel along a road network to access the CBD. A planner ensures the connectedness and maintenance of the road network. The spatial pattern of houses, green spaces and road network self-organises, emerging from agents individualistic decisions. We perform several simulations and vary residential preferences. Our results show morphologies and transition phases that are similar…
FORMA URBANA TRA DISCONTINUITA' E DISTANZA
2021
With the belief that only by adhering to a wide and general theory on the composition of its structure, it is possible to proceed to the manipulation of even the most minute of its parts, the essay tends to develop a thought on the idea of the shape of the urban organism aimed at composing a settlement grammar to define a suitable syntax that is then projected to assign an identity to the peri-urban areas. Drawing on references that have already expressed a stance on the matter, to be found throughout the text is the endorsement of an idea of densification linked to the expansion and completion of existing manufactured fragments to yield clusters on the remains of what is left of the origin…
Cities facing the Wild
2021
Untamed ecosystems and plots of wild nature increasingly constitute large parts of contemporary urban spaces. They are often the unbidden result of a long-standing lack of maintenance as well as of the uncontrolled flourishing of weeds produced by the pesticide absolute ban. But they are also something more. Many recently implemented urban open spaces deal with wild nature to solve some of the most urgent tasks of the contemporary cities: reclaiming areas fallen into disuse, designing sustainable infrastructures, revitalizing valuable public spaces, enhancing the ecological footprint of new developments, suggesting new practices and social ritual, reducing management costs, fighting climate…
RESTORING THE CITY CENTER, PLANNING AND POLICIES
2011
The Intervention on urban fabric and open spaces in the historical city. The article describes the restoration process of Palermo’s historical centre. The process has been discontinuous and fragmented, so that presently, extremely degraded urban areas still coexist with highly desirable areas characterized by first-rate restoration. Palermo’s experience with urban revitalization and development of an impoverished historical city centre demonstrates the need for urban planning that is systematically supported by effective public policies and that never loses sight of preserving the soul of the city.
Human Behavior and Urban Open Spaces in Hyper-Dense Areas: The Case of Dhiesheh Refugee Camp-Palestine
2010
Most of the world cities have hyperdense areas within its borders. Hyperdensity can appear in an informal settlement, in a slum area, in an old core, in a city center, or in a camp as in the case of Palestinian refugee camps. Hyperdensity conditions are capable to produce plenty of problems and questions related to the built up environment, quality of life, and people needs. This dissertation is based on exploring the combination between the physical form of urban open space and human behavior to investigate people's needs in urban open spaces of a hyperdense environment. The focus will be on Dheisheh refugee camp within Bethlehem city borders in the West Bank. The research is based on qual…
The Wildness and the City
2020
The wild city is a delicate subject, which can be addressed from radically different points of view, yet all convincing (as the opinions of the masters expressed above). However the untamed open space and the presence of the weed in the urban environment always require a profound revision of the important categories (for landscape design) of time and care.
Design as adaptive and provisonal practice
2013
The chapter is about the experience of design and building of Eco-Week in Rome, in the suburb of Valle Aurelia
Vivibilità e creatività delle periferie
2020
Consumare meno suolo significa riscoprire la vita in città, riqualificando ambiti degradati, consolidando le piccole centralità mediante spazi pubblici e funzioni aggreganti, sostenendo e incentivando la “ricucitura” di architetture dismesse e parti di città poco vivibili. La “memoria” identitaria e la dimensione ecologico-paesaggistica in chiave creativa delle città possono, e devono, divenire un volano per innescare vivibilità soprattutto nei contesti urbani difficili. Partendo dal concetto di milieu, un approccio creativo bottom up può costituire la base operativa per una vision che, ancor prima di avere una dimensione urbana, ne abbia una “umana”. Nell’obiettivo ultimo di affrontare tem…
Reshaping the city ground-scape with vegetation
2011
Innovative Design Experiences based on soil shaping on urban spaces
Una piazza lineare ai margini del parco
2013
Attorno all’area archeologica di Agrigento si è sviluppata, infatti, una complessa città frammentata e abusiva, totalmente avvolta da infrastrutture di trasporto sovrabbondanti. Tra questi frammenti, Villaggio Mosè - vivace realtà commerciale sviluppatasi “spontaneamente” lungo una Strada Statale - costituisce un fenomeno paradossale in quanto “organizzata” per soddisfare le esigenze di chi si sposta utilizzando l’automobile e non garantisce chi vuole esercitare il “diritto di muoversi liberamente” (Cecchini, Talu, 2011). Il contesto richiede interventi risolutivi nell’intento di migliorare la “qualità della vita nelle città” (UE, Comunicazione n.60, 2004, 29). Questa dipende, infatti, fort…