Search results for "URBAN PLANNING"
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Book review: Urban Complexity and Spatial Strategies: Towards a relational planning for our times, Patsy Healey
2008
Urban resilience. The ad-ap(c)tive city. Blue and green infrastructures and cities. A pathway towards resilience
2017
The paper focuses on the theme of urban resilience, not only as an intrinsic characteristic of cities and communities, but as a project paradigm, investigating whether a resilience-oriented approach is influencing urban planning theory and practice.
Outdoor Mean Radiant Temperature Estimation: Is the Black-Globe Thermometer Method a Feasible Course of Action?
2018
Urban planning has become one of the crucial action in order to address and mitigate the effect and the consequences of the global warming and it also entails different sectors of the urban context. The survey and control of the outdoor climatic conditions are among the involved sectors and mean radiant temperature is amid the most analyzed parameters. The aim of the paper is to investigate the effective suitability of one of the most used method in the assessment of the mean radiant temperature, namely the globe-thermometer method, in outdoor urban environment, singling out possible shortcomings and actual efficacy. Specifically, data obtained by measurement campaigns performed by means of…
Assessment of the mean radiant temperature in urban areas: methods at comparison
2018
Mean radiant temperature may play a pivotal role in the assessment of the outdoor environmental conditions in urban areas. However, its assessment in urban settings is not a simple task owing to the presence of complex and articulated environment and of solar radiation. The article aims to perform a comparison among the results yielded by different methods: the globe-thermometer method, and the six-directional technique. The scope of such a survey is an analysis of the actual appropriateness of the more practical, albeit less accurate, globe-thermometer method to outdoor environments. Furthermore, an analytical model, previously elaborated by the authors and here modified to make it applica…
STRUMENTI E PRATICHE DI PIANIFICAZIONE ENERGETICA VERSO LE SMART CITIES - Proposta di Strumenti Regolamentari, Metodologici e Considerazioni Progettu…
Il termine Smart Cities è ormai di uso comune e diffuso nei paesi sviluppati (America ed Europa in primis) quanto nei Paesi emergenti, Asia (Cina, India) ed Emirati Arabi. Nel contesto internazionale, risulta però difficile individuare una definizione univoca di ciò che si intende per “smart city”. La letteratura scientifica a riguardo, molto prolifica negli ultimi anni, evidenzia il carattere tecnologico/digitale e al contempo sociale di tale aggettivo, cadendo spesso nell’identificazione di “definizioni etichetta” prive di un reale significato. La tesi espone dettagliatamente i punti cardine che hanno guidato la nascita del concetto di smart city e che, superando le mode, rimangono centra…
Human Mobility Simulator for Smart Applications
2019
Several issues related to Smart City development require the knowledge of accurate human mobility models, such as in the case of urban development planning or evacuation strategy definition. Nevertheless, the exploitation of real data about users' mobility results in severe threats to their privacy, since it allows to infer highly sensitive information. On the contrary, the adoption of simulation tools to handle mobility models allows to neglect privacy during the design of location-based services. In this work, we propose a simulation tool capable of generating synthetic datasets of human mobility traces; then, we exploit them to evaluate the effectiveness of algorithms which aim to detect…
La speciale disciplina urbanistica ed edilizia delle opere pubbliche
2023
Public works constitute one of the main objects of ordinary urban planning and building regulations. However, since the 1970s, laws have been gradually introduced with the effect of derogating either from the provisions of the general land use plan or from the general discipline on authorization procedures to build. The decree-laws n. 77/2021 and n. 36/2022 have continued this trend with reference to projects necessary to achieve the strategic objectives of the European Union for the country's ecological and energy transition included in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) and the Integrated National Plan for Energy and Climate (PNIEC). This paper explains the causes of this su…
Marsala: the urban planning and the harbour system
2019
The paper describes the most significant aspects of the urban planning of Lilibeo/Marsala, and the connections between town and harbours
«Una vera e non museografica conversazione di monumenti e di ambienti»: Guido Di Stefano e l’«azione urbanistica» nella Palermo del secondo dopoguerra
2019
L' articolo indaga gli scritti, le attività didattiche e le reti culturali dell'arte e dell'architettura siciliana storico Guido Di Stefano (1906-62). Concentrandosi sui suoi viaggi in Germania e sui suoi contatti con colleghi austriaci (Dagobert Frey), tedeschi (Wolfgang Krönig) ed eminenti colleghi italiani (Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti), l'autore legge la battaglia solitaria di Di Stefano contro la speculazione e il vandalismo nel settore immobiliare a Palermo, nonché il suo coinvolgimento nel stesura del piano urbano dopo la seconda guerra mondiale come aspetti specifici di un'idea di civiltà e impegno politico le cui radici possono essere identificate nell'influente pensiero filosofico di…
Quali regole per la sharing mobility in Europa. Un’introduzione
2020
All over Europe urban mobility services are subject to specialized regulatory regimes. In the last decade, new technologies have upended the sector, making possible new ways of organizing the industry. Platforms like Uber and Lyft have been among the first to seize these possibilities. However, they have often done so without regard for national and local laws. In response to these changes many EU jurisdictions have amended their sectoral regulations, revisiting issues such as licensing, background checks and insurance. The result has been a vast landscape of legal, commercial, and political conflict where local administrators, private operators and citizens are obliged to act within a norm…