Search results for "Urbanism"
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Science, politics and image in Valencia: a review of urban discourse in the Spanish City
2003
Abstract In the urban sphere, discourse is fundamental to the social and political construction of urban reality. The urban landscape is, in part, a result of those discourses. It is, as Richard Schein suggests, a discourse materialized. The production of these discourses throughout urban history both represented and constructed urban reality at any given time. For much of history, the written word was central to such discursive representations, literary formulations and even biological metaphors that sought to interpret the city both for local inhabitants and outsiders. Today, the photographic image has usurped the former dominance of the word. This article uses archival research to trace …
Arquitectura en la ciudad de Valencia desde el final de la Guerra Civil hasta los primeros años 50. Una visión general, algunos textos relevantes y l…
2011
Este trabajo plantea algunas cuestiones necesarias que afectan a la arquitectura realizada en la ciudad de Valencia al finalizar la Guerra Civil, como los viajes de estudios de los que cabe decir tuvieron un peso muy importante en la concepción de un ideal arquitectónico, mostrando además los intereses que en cada momento imperaron. Primero fue Alemania, que fascinó con su excesiva arquitectura, por lo menos hasta el desenlace de la II Guerra Mundial, y el giro evidente que se realiza hacia la arquitectura norteamericana que con posterioridad se dio. Este proceso puede observarse en las arquitecturas hospitalarias que tanto interés suscitaron y de las que también hablaremos, entre algunas d…
Gobernanza y planificación territorial en las áreas metropolitanas. : Análisis comparado de las experiencias recientes en Alemania y de su interés pa…
2017
Normal 0 21 false false false ES X-NONE X-NONE La presente tesis realiza una investigación sobre las áreas metropolitanas desde la perspectiva de la gobernanza y planificación territorial. Se centra en el estudio del caso de Alemania, país en el que desde la década de los 90 se han producido considerables avances en éste ámbito. Este estudio consiste en un análisis con un enfoque comparado de las experiencias en seis áreas metropolitanas seleccionadas: Hannover, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, München, Berlín- Brandeburgo y Hamburgo. Además de la finalidad de ampliar y profundizar el conocimiento científico so…
Mining indigenous territories: Consensus, tensions and ambivalences in the Salar de Atacama
2022
Lithium mining in Chile’s Salar de Atacama (SdA) has a relatively long and controversial history, especially when it comes to the local Indigenous peoples. In this context, this paper looks at the ways mining activities, and different visions of territory and indigeneity co-produce each other in the particular context of the SdA. For this, we use historical and ethnographic methods and draw on studies in anthropology and geography. We aim to escape simplistic images of Indigenous peoples’ reactions to mining as reflecting victimhood, resistance, or strategic pragmatism, and show instead how individuals and groups organize and express themselves in ambivalent ways, maintaining complex relati…
Policy to support digitalisation of industries in various regional settings. A conceptual discussion
2022
The purpose of the article is to analyse regions’ varying preconditions for digitalisation of industry and, on that basis, discuss regionally tailored policy strategies to stimulate digitalisation. Building on both regional innovation system and asset modification approaches, the authors suggest a theoretical framework that identifies regions’ potential for digitalisation from their stock of relevant assets at the firm and innovation system level. The analysis identifies four types of regions with different preconditions for supporting digitalisation of industries. This in turn provides the foundation for a discussion of the role of actor-based and system-based policy strategies to support …
From the Harbour to the City. The Process of Urban Renewal in Trapani
2016
The chapter describes the study case of Trapani historical watwerfront, in particular the design solution adopted for nautical sport events and linked to regional landscape quality. The Trapani fluidity is connetted with an entrenched sea cultural and natural heritage. Actions, plans and programmes implemented for regeneration and development are based on cultural and natural heritage to be regulated, connected and transformed, in order to preserve the urban and regional identity.
One coast, two systems: Regional innovation systems and entrepreneurial discovery in Western Norway
2021
This paper introduces an analytical framework for understanding how specialized and diversified regional innovation system (RIS) differ in the way an entrepreneurial discovery process (EDP) is likely to unfold. To analytically explore the proposed framework, we deploy a sequential explanatory design approach, using quantitative data to analyze the regional industry structure of the city regions of Bergen and Stavanger in Western Norway, followed by a qualitative analysis of interviews with key stakeholders in both regions. We find that the city regions face unique challenges that align with an understanding of their respective RIS categorization, providing evidence that the framework propos…
Healthy design and urban planning strategies, actions, and policy to achieve salutogenic cities
2018
Starting from a previous experience carried out by the working group “Building and Environmental Hygiene” of the Italian Society of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine (SItI), the aim of the present work is to define new strategic goals for achieving a “Healthy and Salutogenic City”, which will be useful to designers, local governments and public bodies, policy makers, and all professionals working at local health agencies. Ten key points have been formulated: 1. climate change and management of adverse weather events; 2. land consumption, sprawl, and shrinking cities; 3. tactical urbanism and urban resilience; 4. urban comfort, safety, and security perception; 5. strengths and weaknesses of ur…
Naissance et développement des villes minières en Europe
2004
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Dining out as a performative event
2020
Public events are scripted, staged and choreographed. Dining out is a perception-affect experience, but it is rare that the experience becomes a performative event in which guests are actors in the scene. The Madeleine’s Food Theatre in Copenhagen created a performative dining-out experience where guests did not have knowledge of the script, stage or choreography beforehand. When people became part of making a space into an event, they entered into unimaginable atmospheres and moods. The article explores the dining experience at Madeleine’s Food Theatre as a collage of body-mind impressions affected by different kinds of forces of presence. Paid open access