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Shopping malls and neoliberal trends in Southern European cities: post-metropolitan challenges for urban planning policy
2016
Whilst shopping malls have been explored at length by critical urban studies, there has been little exploration of their role in restructuring the practice of urban and spatial planning. This article uses the shopping mall as an object of study in the light of the neoliberal trends and post-metropolisation in Southern Europe, with the aim of exploring challenges for urban governance and planning practice and with a focus on the role of the ongoing economic crisis. A threefold exploratory framework – the ‘lost-in-time scenario’, the ‘messianic mall model’ and the ‘(im)mature planning explanation’ – is used to make sense of the local versions of shopping mall development in Lisbon (Portugal) …
Un piano di espansione per Palermo nel secondo Cinquecento: Guglielmo Fornaya e la fondazione del borgo di Santa Lucia.
2014
Il saggio indaga una "speciale" lottizzazione fra le numerose attuate nella capitale siciliana nel corso del XVI secolo: la sua specificità consiste, infatti, nell'essere stata l'unica condotta in un'area esterna alla cinta muraria. Attuata apparentemente contro ogni ragione di difesa della città, l'iniziativa si intreccia piuttosto con più questioni legate alla realizzazione del Molo Nuovo, la principale infrastruttura portuale del Mediterraneo realizzata in prima età moderna, e con le controverse proposte di espansione urbana formulate dalla Corona che, se realizzate, avrebbe condotto al raddoppio della superficie intramuraria di Palermo, con la costruzione di una nuova "Napoli" siciliana…
Systemic approach of the links between urban dynamics, life environment and insecurity : situational prevention as a tool and stake of urban sustaina…
2008
International audience; Managing and controlling city whilst guaranteeing the social cohesion and the life quality is an objective of the urban sustainable development. Thus, the life environments and urban atmospheres that include a security dimension imply a geographical and town-planning thinking. These research activities concern the importance the city-dweller attributes to the security issues. Insecurity can sometimes explain some places repellentness and consequently the daily and residential mobilities. These displacements impact on the places economic and social functioning. Urban insecurity produces negative externalities that can be quantified. Aware of the differential attractiv…
Una ricerca inglese descrive il contesto europeo
2016
Il lavoro intende offrire una chiara esposizione dell’attuale dibattito disciplinare sulla scorta della ricca casistica rilevata dall’istituto inglese "The London School of Economics and Political Science" (LSE), al fine di tracciare le direttrici per il suo successivo arricchimento. Dei casi studio esposti dalla LSE, l'autore ha tratto proprie considerazioni conclusive, con l'intento di ridurre ad unità di sintesi il quadro europeo circa il variegato uso del concetto di "Social Housing", l'individuazione di politiche sociali e di pianificazione volte alla sua implementazione e dell'attuazione e progettazione derivanti.
“Mega-Sports Events, Gentrification and Social Mobilization in Rio de Janeiro” - Experiences from Metrô Mangueira
2017
Master's thesis Development management UT503 - University of Agder 2017 In order to promote gentrification of the city of Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian government and the municipality of Rio de Janeiro have actively used Mega-Sports Events (MSE) in urban planning. Examples are tax cuts and the legalization of various measures for large-scale urban programs, to prepare the city for hosting these prestigious events. Whilst trying to fulfil the obligations from MSEs, the host city denies its citizens access to democratic participation and thereby their right to the city. The promises made to the international sportive federations regarding upgraded infrastructure, sportive arenas, media covera…
The Up-Cycle Beyond the Crime: The Productive Re-Activation of Confiscated Criminal Assets
La ricerca “The Up-Cycle Beyond the Crime: the Productive Re-Activation of Confiscated Criminal Assets” affronta il tema del reinserimento dei beni confiscati alla organizzazioni criminali in nuovi cicli di vita produttivi. La tesi è sviluppata attraverso tre parti principali. La prima parte è dedicata all’inquadramento scientifico del tema e all’apparato teorico, proponendo un regesto critico delle teorie e dell’evoluzione del concetto di riciclo della città e del territorio, con particolare attenzione alla modalità dell’up-cycle, attingendo sia alla letteratura delle scienze sociali, geografiche ed economiche sia alle pratiche relative alla riattivazione dei metabolismi territoriali. La s…
Ethnographic Knowledge in Urban Planning:Bridging the Gap between the Theories of Knowledge-Based and Communicative Planning
2021
Publisher Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. ‘Knowledge-based’ approaches have recently made a breakthrough in urban planning. How to develop balance in knowledge-based planning between abstract and scientific knowledge, on the one hand, and ‘local knowledge’ on the other hand has been long debated. To this debate, we add a form of knowledge with potential for sustainable urban planning, i.e. ethnographic knowledge that could transmit an understanding of urban dwellers’ daily practices and values to planning organisations. Theoretical literature is the foundation of our argument, which we illustrate with a case study involvin…
The shopping mall as an emergent public space in Palermo
2017
<p>As Doreen Massey (2005) pointed out, space matters. Does public space still matter today? Since the early seventies, several studies have explored public space as an emerging, and in many ways innovative, universe of actors, spatiality and socio-territorial practices which invaded the public spheres of our cities (Habermas, 1979; Rossi, 2008). However, ‘public space’ may have a wide variety of interpretations which relate to a semantic overlapping between a sensitive material sphere -The Space- and an intangible metaphorical sphere -The Public- (Bianchini, 1990; Crosta, 2000; Hajer and Reijndorp, 2002; Harvey, 2006; Low and Smith, 2006; Rossi, 2008). As Crosta (2000) reveals, a new…
Modèle de simulation à double-agent du processus de développement résidentiel : une approche institutionnelle pour expliquer la forme spatiale des dé…
2013
This thesis presents PARDISIM, a simulation model that takes an institutionaleconomic approach in the simulation of the residential development process.Rather then modelling the residential development as the result of locationchoices at household level, PARDISIM focusses on the objectives and interac-tions of development actors. The idea behind this approach is that developmentactors, including public planning authorities, play an important role in the pro-cess of residential development. The model is top-down whereas the most recentefforts by other scholars focus instead on a bottom-up approach. Initial testingshows that PARDISIM is capable of producing realistic spatial patterns.
Fondare una città nella Sicilia di età moderna: dinamiche territoriali e tecniche operative
2013
Il saggio, grazie anche al ricorso a nuova documentazione archivistica, prova a fare luce su procedure e tecniche operative alla base di quello straordinario fenomeno insediativo che avrebbe condotto in Sicilia, nel giro di due secoli e mezzo, tra Cinque e Settecento, alla fondazione di oltre un centinaio di città nuove e indotto profonde e radicali trasformazioni sulla società nel suo insieme. The essay, thanks to the use of new archival documentation, tries to shed some light on procedures and operating techniques underlying that extraordinary settlement phenomenon that would have lead in Sicily to the foundation, in two and a half centuries, between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth centuries…