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Edge of a city. Margini e centralità urbane nell'architettura di Steven Holl
2018
In his professional career Steven Holl has made numerous projects on the theme of the city's edge and on the new urban centralities. This essay analyzes the theoretical and design aspects of some of the most significant works of the American architect.
Lo spazio poetico al limitare del margine urbano
2018
The marginal space of the contemporary city no longer has a recognizable form. It has lost relationship with the natural horizon, renouncing however its own poetic vocation. Architecture has the task of reestablishing this relationship. Through the analysis of some projects by Francesco Venezia it is possible to show that contemporary architecture still has the proper instruments to recover the poetic space on the urban border.
From alternative representations to prospective visions. The administrative subdivisions in Palermo (Italy)
2016
Alternative representations of the city are not only a useful analysis tool, but they also provide elements of a conceived new version of lived space that can contribute to ameliorate the spatial justice of the city. This is even truer for intra-local spaces that are the reference scale for many public participation policies, grass-root projects and activists. In this paper, we present the case of Palermo where the administrative subdivisions of the urban space have been imposed – because of legislation about administrative decentralisation – on the historical and perceived ones. Alternative mapping shows intra-local spaces as places of identity definition and civic engagement. In our paper…