Search results for "Urbanistica"
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Strategic Environmental Assessment: Integrating Landscape and Urban Planning
2016
This book explores the opportunities offered by Strategic Environmental Assessment in the context of guaranteeing the synchronized integration of landscape (in all its aspects) within urban plans, thereby helping to overcome the constraints of rigidly framed, sector-focused laws and a purely aesthetic concept of landscape. In pursuit of this goal, various scholars have previously attempted to construct arrays of indicators relating to the different conceptions of “landscape”. This book critically examines the most complete proposals of this nature, systematizing and comparing them and, finally, offering some guidelines with respect to their codification within specific application protocols…
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.
TOWARDS A LIVING-ORIENTED APPROACH TO URBAN DESIGN BY COSMOPOLITAN RISK COMMUNITIES
2021
At a defining moment for the future of life on Earth, active citizenship and informed communities play a decisive role in sensitising stakeholders to issues and influencing their decisions via physical and digital platforms. Anthropogenic climate change generates risks, causes migrations, expands inequalities, and mobilises people: these challenges question both the relationship of coexistence between different cultures and that between humans and other living species, such as animals, insects, and plants. If inhabiting cosmopolitan cities means living in and sharing a plural habitat, it is of utmost importance that we gather our collective expertise and rethink cities as welcoming spaces f…
Urban Blight and Redevelopment: An Urban Participation Path
2018
This paper pays particular attention to one of the many participatory models present in the landscape of urban and territorial planning. Specifically, the ACTION PLANNING model was chosen; a model used in Anglo-Saxon countries to identify the problems and needs of the inhabitants of a given territory, through the involvement of interested parties or stakeholders. The model is applied in Sicily, to Villaseta, a small rural settlement, located southwest of the city of Agrigento, which consists primarily of affordable and social housing. It is a suburb without identity, left to itself, where – despite the valuable cultural, historic, scenic, and most importantly human resources – one notes the…
C’è un altro cielo. Parchi e Giardini a New York
2017
I giardini a New York, e soprattutto a Manhattan, tra le città più compatte del pianeta, mostrano come gli spazi aperti abbiano una specifica densità, rispetto al costruito e siano un “fronte di resistenza” rispetto ai processi di trasformazione immobiliare, ai Piani, agli interventi pubblici e a quelli privati, cui a volte si oppongono efficacemente le azioni civiche e partecipative degli abitanti. La trama del verde va letta, dunque, nel saggio, in base alla relazione tensiva tra fenomeni molto diversi che contribuiscono a configurare una morfologia “porosa” costituita anche da spazi aperti differenti. Il saggio esplora, in tal senso, la nascita dei giardini di grandi dimensioni concepiti…
GIBELLINA: VANGUARD OF A COSMOPOLITAN CITY
2021
Gibellina is a city formed by orogenesis. It was reborn after a dramatic earthquake and shook the sediment off urban theory, becoming a city open to the world and to the worlds of contemporary culture; of architecture, art, theatre. To understand its revolutionary force, we must immerse ourselves in the context of 1968, when an earthquake hit the Belice Valley with a violence capable of damaging fourteen cities and razing four of them—including Gibellina— to the ground. The earthquake marked a sharp break in the historical continuity of the small, rural centre of Sicily. The original site of the town was abandoned and another city was built from scratch for the surviving inhabitants. The ci…
Prove di innovazione culturale. La forma urbis e civile di Gibellina
2008
General Overview
2016
Il capitolo introduce alla tematica smart city attraverso un exscursus storico che ne traccia i passaggi salienti: la nascita delle politiche globali ambientali sino al livello della maturità raggiunto con il Protocollo di Kyoto (1997); poi ancora il Pacchetto Clima 20-20-20 redatto dalla Commissione Europea nel 2008 che traccia un'altro punto cruciale che prelude ai progetti e alle iniziative in ambito smart cities. La Strategia Energetica Europea al 2050 rappresenta il quadro di riferimento a cui tendere. Il capitolo si conclude con una rassegna dei sistemi di ranking più popolari e con una proposta di analisi. The chapter introduces to smart city issue through a historical excursus, whic…
La città globale e i flussi migratori
2014
In Search of the Metropolitan Dimension
2021
The new settlement phenomena in our territory, linked to current globalisation processes and the increasing complexity of contemporary society, have caused a crisis of the historical boundaries and are creating new planning layouts. In this context, the metropolitan dimension is once again viable, and Italy, with Sicily sometimes experiencing these processes in advance, is reorganising the institutions covering large areas, directing processes and trying out new convergences, under the driving force of new public finance reorganisation policies.