Search results for "Peripheries"
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Urban Boundaries and Innovative Scenarios
2021
The New Peripheries section of the Ociam International Comparison Exhibition gathers eighteen panels conceived by different authors invited to define their own view on the theme of fragility in contexts of marginality. Each proposal declined the theme of the New Peripheries according to its own original point of view. A collection of different looks capable of reading and reinterpreting the conditions in which the suburbs today find themselves, able to build a privileged observatory from which to look, observe and scrutinise not only the current conditions of the suburbs, but to glimpse their potential in the strategic role they can play today in the urban transformation processes of the ci…
Resistencias, novedades y negociaciones : la terminología química durante la primera mitad del siglo XIX en España
2010
En este artículo se analiza la nueva terminología química en España durante la primera mitad del siglo XIX. Pretendemos mostrar que el estudio de la historia de la terminología permite conocer mejor los mecanismos de negociación, apropiación y resistencia de las comunidades locales, y ofrece nuevas claves para repensar las relaciones entre centro y periferias científicas. Las fuentes principales del estudio son los manuales de química publicados entre 1788 y 1845 en España. Estructuraremos la discusión en torno a cuatro temas que forman parte de las cuestiones generalmente analizadas en los estudios sobre la circulación del conocimiento: apropiaciones, controversias, novedades y resistencia…
Aligning Inner Peripheries with rural development in Italy: Territorial evidence to support policy contextualization
2021
Abstract Inner Peripheries is a recent concept based on both peripherality and marginality features, thus far from the commonly adopted geographical notion of periphery. Inner Peripheries are fragile territories covering rural Europe, which suffer from depopulation, low economic potential, and weak territorial cohesion. However, these territories are extremely important for the provision of goods and services, and the stewardship of natural and semi-natural environments. Such dichotomous condition poses several challenges for planning in the EU context, particularly regarding the implementation of the Rural Development Policy. Therefore, current planning needs to contextualize the policy im…
THE INNER TERRITORIES: FROM THE MARGINS TO COSMOPOLITAN CENTRES
2021
The article proposes a reflection on the cosmopolitanism linked to the “marginalised” parts of Italy, where social, economic, and infrastructural decline and the consequent abandonment of places are met with stories of renewal in which the relationship between inhabitants and foreigners constitutes the basis for starting local development processes able to activate new urban networks based on cultural interaction and to generate resilient relations, welcoming processes, and new communities. In this new “cosmopolitan nomadism”, we can recognise an opportunity for territories and communities to regenerate spatial and social relations: innovation and culture, permanent exchange, and neutral en…
Body, Nature, Language: Artisans to Artists in the Commodification of Authenticity
1969
This article examines processes of authenticating and selling handicrafts at the conjuncture of cultural pride and economic profit in two peripheral sites (Finnish Sámiland and rural Québec), under shared conditions of late capitalism and globalising political economies. These conditions (re)structure traditionalist and modernist discourses about artisans' historical bodies, their connections to the local land (nature), and how they interactionally authenticate and sell their products through language. Under these conditions, the commodification of authenticity pushes artisans and handicrafts beyond being emblems of national belonging and collective tradition, and toward individualised, art…
The Power of the Young Town
2017
In Italy, after the Second World War, according to Fanfani and Tupini’s laws (1949), INA-casa and its procuring entities’ ventures made a motor of urban renewal from the enthusiasm and the commitment of many entrepreneurs and public administrators. In Palermo, the agricultural lands began to include new neighbourhoods that quickly merged with the historic and nineteenth-twentieth century centre. In the fifties, between the town and its geographic limits (the mountains of the Corona dei Colli) a beltway has been hypothesized. It was a founding board (Culotta, 2005). In the sixties, it was the spine of an expanding urban fabric that absorbed citrus groves, vineyards, olive groves, field of fl…
Workshop SITdA RELIVE 2019. Un approccio progettuale per la rigenerazione sostenibile, Team Trigenera
2020
This paper describes the experience and the urban regeneration design carried out during the workshop Work- shop RELIVE 2019. The first section overviews the workshop’s structure. The methodology of analysis adopted by the group and the diagnosis of the urban sector is reported in the second section, as well as underlying critical is- sues and project requirements emerged. Design criteria and the project proposal are described in the third section
The territorial and social metamorphosis of the Inner Peripheries
2019
The paper debates the theme of the Inner Peripheries that, in their complexity and diversity, represent those territories in which a rethinking of the rural/urban, society/territory, society/economy, territory/production and community/landscape relationship is increasingly urgent for the sustainability, to interrupt the process of abandonment and to strengthen and network the small experiences of innovation that are taking place and that are showing that they can be welcoming and functional places, capable of realizing new local centralities with global attractiveness. With the aim of opening a debate on the role that inner peripheries can take in a multi-scale territorial scenario and on t…
Farming on the margins : Just transition and the resilience of peripheral farms
2022
Sustainability transition demands fundamental changes taking place at the farm system level. At the same time, many farms are operating on the verge of financial profitability, especially in geographically disadvantaged peripheral regions with a limited range of production opportunities. These observations raise concerns about the transition's justice aspects. Using the concept of resilience, we analysed farmers’ capacities for transformation in a peripheral context in Finland. The results from our farmer survey (n = 577) indicated that the regime exerts a strong cost-price squeeze on farmers, escaping of which is difficult also for farmers deliberately seeking new pathways beyond it. Due t…
The green wedge. An urban design opportunity
2017
Il contributo descrive l'area di progetto scelta per il workshop internazionale "Dynamics of Periphery", evidenziandone le potenzialità e sottolineando le questioni progettuali. Il Vallone Cicchillo, a Favara, valle coltivata che si incunea nel tessuto urbano, è un esempio di in-between rurale-urbano, denso di questioni e opportunità: i margini e i bordi, le connessioni e l'accessibilità, il paesaggio agricolo all'interno della città. Selected as focus area of the project for the workshop "Dynamics of Periphery", the area called "Vallone Cicchillo" is a natural wedge-shaped cultivated valley within the city of Favara, characterized for being an example of rural-urban in-between, dense with …