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The good process or the great illusion? A spatial perspective on public participation in Danish municipal wind turbine planning
2021
This paper explores the nature of public participation in Danish municipal wind power planning. Although the procedure for involving citizens embedded in the environmental impact assessment (EIA) procedure for wind power projects is often praised for its participatory character, the approach is not without problems. In this paper, we identify the limitations and potentials of the public space provided for citizen involvement. By means of Gaventa’s terminology suggesting a continuum of public spaces for participation, the paper shows how the planning process can be approached from different spatial perspectives – each of them illuminating different forms of power, resistance and opportunitie…
Spazio pubblico vs. spazio privato: nuovi modelli e regole “contemporanee”. Un caso studio a Palermo
2022
L’emergenza pandemica degli ultimi due anni ha comportato, tra l’altro, la necessità di ripensare la funzione di alcuni spazi pubblici che tradizional- mente servivano per attività di socializzazione. Lo spazio rappresenta peraltro una dimensione crucia- le nella costruzione delle politiche di prevenzione, gestione e contrasto alla diffusione del virus. Con l’obiettivo di costruire un approccio integrato a quegli spazi pubblici e privati che possono essere ridisegnati per i bisogni di piccole comunità, il presente paper, partendo da esperienze di ricerca-azione integrate con l’attività didattica, vuole ragionare su una particolare tipologia di spazio pubblico, quella relativa agli spazi…
Shopping malls as pseudo-public spaces. The shopping mall as an emergent public space in Palermo
2012
Much has been written on the role of public space in contemporary societies, and many scholars agree that public space today is a controversial and arguably critical concept. It may actually seem that even the basic idea of what is or should be ‘public’ is experiencing a deep and troublesome reconsideration, as new forms of privatization slowly but firmly erode its fundaments. Within this conceptual framework, this paper aims at critically analyzing the idea of public space today, with particular attention to the idea of public space as a shopping mall. Characteristics of the Italian way of using shopping malls, and their social and spatial consequences, are investigated and analyzed throug…
IL PROGETTO CONTEMPORANEO DEGLI SPAZI PUBBLICI AD ALCAMO
2021
Il saggio presenta alcuni progetti significativi nella città di Alcamo, in cui il tema dello spazio pubblico si presenta come una sorta di allestimento, che configura luoghi di qualità per la città contemporanea. Questi interventi manifestano la loro partecipazione a quello spirito contemporaneo che elabora l’architettura come sistema di relazioni spaziali e temporali: ricostruendo un ordine tra le cose – i pieni ed i vuoti, la vegetazione e le pietre, la città e il paesaggio – e un legame evidente tra contemporaneità e tradizione.
Caleidoscopico Mercato Ballarò: ampio spazio alla ricerca-azione a Palermo
2019
The proposal to trigger regenerative processes in the urban and social fabric in an unstable context is the foundation of this research-action developed with a systemic approach, first observing the environment built in its entirety and subsequently overcoming the limited concept of interventions, over time and in space, through three priority criteria: resilience, adaptability and transformability. These criteria activate a design strategy in complex systems to respond to situations of environmental, social and economic instability. A double tension guides this research in the field through continuous operations of distancing4 and interaction with institutions, associations, marketers and …
Challenging or Accommodating the Football System? A Case Study of Female Football Supporter Communities in Spain
2018
The chapter is dedicated to the study of a specific type of football community that emerged during the 1980s in Spain: women’s penas. Llopis-Goig and Flores discuss how women’s link to these penas provides them with networks of support and sociability, bonds of friendship and integration in a community as well as a door to the public space that helps them avoid the isolation of a nuclear family for some women. Thus, the female fans generate empowerment strategies that allow them to gradually combat the discrimination experienced in football and in society. However, Llopis-Goig and Flores argue that women’s penas cannot be regarded as initiatives that question the patriarchal structure of fo…
Casa MCMC: Buenos Aires, Argentina
2010
In a low-rise residential neighborhood on a small site, this house stands surrounded by walls and is oriented towards the idea of reclaiming public space. Ar...
Humanity in Times of Crisis
2014
The belief in a politics of humanity, even in times of crisis, can be argued to serve as the basis of Hannah Arendt’s political thought. By presupposing freedom as a human condition, Arendt’s account of the political addresses what she takes to be humans’ capability to begin something anew, which involves new-born children as well critique of the society. Also, one way in which Arendt may be read, is by holding that the politics of humanity is, fundamentally speaking, grounded in new-born’s embodiment. Although Arendt rejects a direct link between the body and the political respectively, it still seems as if her account of humanity and dignity should be interpreted as depending on the ontol…
THE COSMOPOLITANISM OF COMMUNITIES: PUBLIC SPACE AS A GENERATOR OF EQUALITY AND DEMOCRACY
2021
The era in which we live, that of the networked society, of the society of knowledge, of globalization, the era in which everyone is connected to each other by annihilating geographical distances thanks to the dematerialization allowed by virtual processes, is the era in which the intensification of flows in every direction contrasts with the materialisation of borders and barriers, the proliferation of inequalities, social conflicts and personal hardship. The social separation corresponds, therefore, to a spatial separation, which creates stigmatized neighbourhoods, concentrations of problems in specific areas such as, among all, the suburbs and some areas of the historic centres. Then one…
Waterfront and Transformation in Contexts of Conflict
2016
This chapter defines in what way the seaside and the waterfront can be place of conflicts among infrastructures, production, unplanned urbanisation, bathing tourism and many other activities. The last section of the chapter describes synthetically the study case of Saint-Nazare Submarine base and the terms of regeneration of a typically place of conflict, like a military area connected with the waterfront. The transformations underway in the waterfront areas present a variety of complex settlement dynamics that are ascribable to the infrastructural and productive nature of many activities, such as unplanned urbanisation, the pressures of bathing tourism and mass tourism, and the system of s…