Search results for "Urban"

Città e deserto. Appunti di un viaggio in Giordania. City and desert. Notes from a journey in Jordan

2012

The book is the result of some thoughts that I have gained during my stay in Jordan, where, for a few years, I have been teaching and researching, following an intense exchange activities developed productively thanks to the cooperation agreements between the University of Palermo, the University of Jordan in Amman and Al al-Bayt University of Mafraq.

Visioni parallele

2020

Saggio di presentazione dei lavori del workshop svoltosi nell’ambito del Seminario “Architettura costruita e spazio abitato nelle città di nuova fondazione in Italia e Spagna”, organizzato dal Dottorato di ricerca in Architettura Arti Pianificazione con l’Universidad de Exstremadura. Il testo presenta delle coppie dialettiche formate da realtà urbane italiane (individuate tra le città fondate nella Bonifica dell’Agro Pontino) e una spagnola (scelta tra le città della Colonizzazione dell’Estremadura) al fine di una lettura parallela. Presentation essay of the workshop held as part of the Seminar "Architettura costruita e spazio abitato nelle città di nuova fondazione in Italia e Spagna" (Bui…

Citizenship, Civil Society, and Development: Interconnections in a Global World

2012

1. Citizenship, Civil Society, and Development: Interconnections in a Global World 2. Citizenship Quality: A New Agenda for Development? 3. Water Privatization and Social Citizenship: The Case of Urban Water Sector in Ghana 4. CSO Law in Ethiopia: Considering its Constraints and Consequences 5. Cooperation for the Enhancement of Environmental Citizenship in the Context of Securitization: The Case of an OSCE Project in Serbia 6. The Arab Spring Meets the Occupy Wall Street Movement: Examples of Changing Definitions of Citizenship in a Global World

Justifying Civic Activism in Russia and Finland

2013

ABSTRACTIn this article, we present a novel way of researching civil society in a comparative perspective and illustrate it through a detailed analysis of public disputes concerning urban building construction projects in St. Petersburg and Helsinki in 2008–2009. In our illustration, we use justification theory, a line of thought developed by Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thevenot in the early 1990s, but until now little used in comparative civil society research. Moreover, we use a variant of Public Justification Analysis, a new method for analysing media data. Our focus is on moral justifications, that is, on arguments which are presented against or in favour of the proposed projects and whic…

Owning (and reading?) politeness books in the eighteenth century: an analysis through private libraries

2020

Este artículo explora la presencia en bibliotecas privadas españolas —y algunas americanas— del siglo XVIII de la literatura de urbanidad, considerada en un sentido amplio que incluye no solo manuales de civilidad propiamente dichos, sino también ensayos, periódicos, obras de educación, filosofía moral, medicina, ficción o viajes, en las que la reflexión sobre las costumbres y las pautas de vida civilizadas constituyó un eje importante. Aunque poseer libros no equivale a leerlos, el análisis de una veintena de inventarios y catálogos, complementados en ciertos casos con notas y recomendaciones de lectura, proporciona ciertos indicios sobre el lugar que la civilidad ocupó en las preocupacion…

What happens at the lesson start?

2016

AbstractTransitional periods, such as lesson starts, are necessary steps from one activity to another, but they also compete with time for actual learning. The aim of the present study was to replicate a previous pilot study on lesson starts and explore possible disturbances. In total, 130 lesson starts in Finnish basic education in grades 1–9 were studied using systematic observation performed by 79 preservice teachers. The results corresponded with a previous pilot study indicating that lesson starts were generally orderly and teachers used effective means to manage events. However, lessons started 5 min late on average. Male teachers were evaluated to have better classroom order than fem…

Spazi aperti di comunità in ambito climatico Mediterraneo. Il caso di Hassan Fathy in Egitto

2022

The complexity of the relationship between architecture and the Mediterranean climate, in energy regimes and resource scarcity, requires special attention. Specifically, the article aims to explore how community spaces can become design subjects, intervening in climatic, environmental, social, and cultural features. Hassan Fathy’s architecture, in particular the two schools in New Gourna and Fares, offer a different key to understanding man, climate, culture, technology, and education. A relationship that is still evolving today, calling architecture back toits educational and social focus.

Seminar: “Local Climate Change and Urban Mitigation Techniques to Counterbalance It”, University of Palermo, Italy, March 2017

2017

Self‐esteem mediates the associations among negative affect, body disturbances, and interpersonal problems in treatment‐seeking obese individuals

2015

Background: This study investigated the relationship among negative affect, body image disturbances (BID), and interpersonal problems, and the mediat- ing effect of self-esteem in a group of treatment-seeking obese individuals. Methods: Four hundred twenty-two obese patients (85 males and 337 females) completed standardised measures that assessed negative affect, BID, self-esteem, and interpersonal problems. Results: Structural equation modelling showed that obese individuals with greater negative affect and BID reported higher interpersonal problems and that self-esteem mediated the relationships among negative affect, BID, and interpersonal problems. Conclusions: The mediating role of sel…

The Urban Landscape and the Real Estate Market. Structures and Fragments of the Axiological Tessitura in a Wide Urban Area of Palermo

2016

The proposed study deals with the urban landscape of Palermo and its possible representation from the perspective of the real estate market analysis. Real estate is one of the most significant types of capital asset and the wide range of its possible utilizations makes complex the interpretation of the market phenomena. The multi-layered reality of such a large city (represented through the sample of 500 properties) needs to be articulated into a significant set of sub-markets in order to outline the complexity and to map the distribution of homogeneous groups of properties within the whole city area. The comparison between quality and price within each cluster allows us to elicit the degre…