Search results for "Urbanistica"
showing 10 items of 2022 documents
Land Healthcare Resilience and Technology
2020
The Covid 19 pandemic and emergency has highlighted the precarious conditions in urban and areas and has bettered opportunities offered by smaller towns and inland areas in which the healthy atmosphere, sparser population and sustainable relational system represent alternative ways of life, guaranteeing physical space and health controls without actually entailing social distancing and isolation. This is even more crucial for the weaker elements, of any age and condition, for whom a different model of living embodies prudence and prevention. The marginality of services represents a limitation on the possibility of transforming villages and small towns into alternatives with regard to qualit…
Historic centres in Sicily and political recovery: Palermo and Siracusa.
2011
The paper refers to a particular aspect of the topic of interest “Development policies and urban conservation of historic areas”, addressing the theme of recovery of historic centres. First they are often degraded urban areas, but a great historical and cultural value, reported from deep layers of the built heritage, therefore they have a great potential in terms of functions that can still play in the contemporary city. From an examination of Southern Italy historic centres topics and problems, and especially Sicilian, the paper provides a analysis of national and regional legislation, and explores some approaches to recovery Sicilian historic centres, through two case studies: Palermo and…
Un nuovo assetto per il quartiere della Kalsa nel Cinquecento: l'addizione urbana del piano di porta dei Greci
2013
Il saggio porta alla luce, attraverso significative acquisizioni documentarie, l'unica operazione di addizione urbana che la città di Palermo, ancora murata, abbia conosciuto: quella che vide l'ampliamento del quartiere della Kalsa verso mare e il ridisegno della sua cinta muraria, attuati su progetto dell'ingegnere regio Pedro Prado, ma con il diretto coinvolgimento del loro promotore, il viceré Juan de Vega. La ricerca si sofferma anche sugli aspetti del cantiere delle nuove fortificazioni 'alla moderna', nonché su quelli artistici e stilistici legati alla edificazione di una nuova porta urbica, caricata di forti valori simbolici, e al radicamento del linguaggio classicista nella Sicilia …
Pietro Antonio Tomasello de Padua : un ingeniero militar véneto en la Sicilia de Carlos V
2011
En 1522 el virrey de Sicilia, Ettore Pignatelli, conde de Monteleone, inició una gran campaña para fortalecer las defensas de las principales ciudades de la costa de Sicilia: Palermo, Trapani, Milazzo, Siracusa y, algunos años más tarde, incluso Messina. El ingeniero real Pietro Antonio Tomasello de Padua, un técnico militar Veneto, pidió renovar el sistema de defensas de la isla, con la introducción por primera vez de bastiones circulares y poligonales en fortalezas y murallas de la ciudad. La obra, desconocida hasta ahora, de este importante ingeniero militar activo en Sicilia desde 1523 hasta 1537, año de su muerte, está siendo reconstruida con una importante documentación de archivo. La…
Housing Issue and Right to Housing in Palermo
2021
This article explores the dichotomy between interests and values in the field of the right to housing for homeless people, focusing on the informal practices of reappropriation of spaces (properties owned by the Municipality of Palermo) in the case study of Palermo. The experience we are dealing with here must be addressed in a wider context of structural and latent conflicts concerning the city of Palermo, which are strictly related to the emergency housing issue. Indeed, Palermo’s housing issue is a quite complex and articulated theme, where the ineffectiveness of public policies and the increasing poverty conditions, aggravated by the economic crisis, seem to find in the various forms of…
Cities' identity and urban redevelopment: a study for the enhancement of self-built houses
2021
The study objective is the knowledge of the ways in which ‘the universe of the house is structured’ , in particular in a selected neighbourhood located on the northern edge of Favara - a town in the Sicilian hinterland, few kilometres far from Agrigento - characterized by self-building. The hope is that the investigated built-up heritage, together with public open spaces, can be recovered and enhanced by the community and local governance through strategic urban redevelopment actions not to lose a significant part of the city’s identity and history.
Autorecupero: una pratica d’innovazione urbana?
2013
La questione abitativa ci sembra rappresentare uno dei campi problematici che più mette in discussione la visione e la concezione delle città, del vivere urbano e dell’abitare, ma anche i rapporti fra la disciplina urbanistica e la politica e le scelte di quest’ultima. L'articolo intende spiegare come l'autorecupero mostri la sua carica di innovazione, tanto dal punto di vista delle realtà urbane quanto per gli studi urbanistici.
Paesaggi digitali: le manifestazioni spaziali delle tecnologie dell’informazione e della comunicazione
2020
The paper aims to investigate the evolution of the relationship between digital technologies and physical reality, through observing the main spatial manifestations of digital information and communication technologies. In the last decades, the flow of digital information began to materialize itself in a very physical infrastructure made of transcontinental cables and data centers. The analysis revealed the growing environmental and geopolitical implications of digital technologies.