Search results for "Spatial"

Carlo Scarpa : a [curious] shaft of light, a golden standard, the hands and a face of a woman : reflections on the design process and layout of Palaz…

2020

This study describes the spatial organization of the entire Gallery Regional Palace of Abatellis as a place of complex mediation between the commitment of the Carlo Scarpa project, the sense of measure and harmony and the requests of the curator Giorgio Vigni. The book tries to understand the link between the place and the design process of Scarpa, discarding the chronology of the intervention itself with reflections concerning the design process of the exhibition, they reveal a possible code message. It is a targeted reconnaissance, whose narrative is also recomposed by thanks to some clues (found during the study of the correspondence and drawings, not always known and published), which s…

Infrastructures, landscape and local development: planning prospects and evaluation tools

2008

Sulle tracce della postmetropoli: percorsi di lettura attorno allo “spazio pensato” postmetropolitano

2018

Nel tracciare il percorso bibliografico, questo saggio introduttivo affronta la vasta bibliografia tematica relativa ai “sei discorsi” (ampliando anche il campo di riflessione di Soja) senza alcuna pretesa di sistematicità, ma perseguendo l’obiettivo di rintracciare le geografie della transizione postmetropolitana in atto nei territori siciliani. Seguendo l’asse del ragionamento di Soja, la postmetropoli è stata “utilizzata” come dispositivo di frattura epistemologica (Brenner e Schmid, 2015) rispetto alle teorie urbane che riconoscono solo nell’unità morfologica densa della città i caratteri dell’urbano. Del resto, è lo stesso Soja a sollecitare un uso della postmetropoli di Los Angeles no…

In the Name of Antigone: Migrants and Human Rights in Contemporary Urban Spaces

2022

Starting from the metaphor of the ethical conflict between dignity and rights in Antigone, the article reflects on the theme of human dignity for a critique of global inequalities. These theoretical assumptions are the basis for reflecting on the theme of contemporary international mobility of populations, which generates significant effects on the production of borders and the right to the city, highlighting new issues of social and spatial justice. In particular, with respect to the “newcomers”, claiming the “right to the city”, after claiming the “right to mobility”, very often coincides with the claim and protection of human rights, in order to build “spaces for survival”. On the one ha…

Governing the Metropolitan Dimension: A Critical Perspective on Institutional Reshaping and Planning Innovation in Italy

2019

As in other European countries, over recent decades the question of met- ropolitan government has captured political and academic attention in Italy too. The debate has been recently fuelled by a national reform introduced to create 14 metropolitan authorities to provide for new government solutions in the territories of the larger urban areas. Based on literature and empirical observation, this paper presents a critical view of that process by examining the following questions: How do metropolitan areas relate to broader Italian urban policy? How does the reform contribute to a reshaping of multi-level governance through national and local initiatives? And how does institutional reorganisa…

The spatial strategies of Italian regions

2014

Spatial planning is undergoing radical changes all over Europe. As space is greatly affected by the intersection of processes of economic restructuring and institutional reorganisation, planning tools at different scales are required to reinvent their capacity to describe local identities, spatial relations and any form of territoriality. The increased complexity of territorial change, therefore, demands planning to reshape it as a cognitive process which is able to combine the designing of the future with the emergence of new, flexible and socially recognised conceptions of space and places. In this context, regions are no longer seen merely as a background for cultural identities or the s…

Spatial Bayesian Modeling of Presence-only Data

2011

Special Issue on Analysing, Modelling and Visualizing Spatial Environmental Data (Part1)

2012

Knowledge Discovery and Digital Cartography for the ALS (Linguistic Atlas of Sicily) Project

2009

In this paper the latest developments of the ALS (Linguistic Atlas of Sicily) project are presented. The ALS project has the purpose to define methodologies and tools to allow researches in the socio-linguistic field. Different types of variables (both quantitative and qualitative) are involved. The whole framework is based on the definition of ontology-based applications for the creation, retrieval, manipulation and browsing of related data. To this aim, some mapping processes have been defined. The framework eventually shows the result in many ways including spatial maps. The on-going collaboration process is a perfect example a domain hybridizing process, enabling the training on-the-fie…

The effects of mental rotation on computational thinking

2019

Abstract Although several investigations of spatial reasoning and mental rotation skills have been conducted in research areas linked to STEM education, to the best of our knowledge, few of these studies have examined the relationship between spatial reasoning and computational thinking. Given this gap in the literature, the present study investigates the role and action of spatial reasoning, and specifically the effects of mental rotation on computational thinking within an embodied and enacted perspective. To achieve this, we carried out a study involving 92 students in five primary-school classes (1st grade - 5th grade). The findings reveal a positive correlation between computational th…